This is a Gandy made by Ricco HC-145 as identified by Dick Abbott, also photographed by Dick Abbott. (I have two, but this one is not mine.)

Mazzman said:

Is this cue still available?

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Pending payment

jimmyg said:

Breakfast break...

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This post offends me deeply.



It's not a proper breakfast without hash browns...

Tennesseejoe said:

Did you change your cue or shaft? Did you change your bridge length?

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Hi, no changes to cue or shaft or Bridge length. Still fighting unintentional bit of right spin. Doing lots of practice swings and video so I can see what to correct. I think I think I have overcorrected from my initial post with the video.

Now more often my right hand pulls in toward me through contacts so I end up with the tip going a little right and a small amount of right spin.

The instructor who I saw felt that I need to just hit a lot of balls into the pocket with no object ball and feel no tension. He feels that the muscle involvement is causing unpredictable shoulder and elbow movement.

I have tried hard to make sure I am not dropping my elbow before contact with the cue ball. But in videos even when I'm trying to use a totally fixed elbow it's still drops, and drops a little too soon, about 3 or 4 video frames before contact.

I would like to have my elbow still at contact or not dropping any sooner than one or two frames before contact, and then a natural J stroke would be my preference for the follow-through, on almost shots.

A LOT easier said than done!!

Thank you all for your input!

Is this cue still available?

nine_ball6970 said:

When the texas open was one on the spot with a magic rack(no 3 point), I saw bergman break and run 8 from the lag. 9th game he rattled the wing ball. He posted on fb that he had 23 break and runs over the course of 3 matches which were race to 9.

I also saw Shane McMinn with 7 break and runs in a row in same tournament.

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How often does this happen, statistically?

I'm older than dirt and I hadn't played for years and only spent a few hours playing on a weekend and I broke and ran 5 racks and made the 9 on the sixth break and scratched in the side to stop my streak at 5.

That doesn't mean I am doing every time I play.

Jaden said:

I don't disagree with that; however how far you want to go can change what you might want to do. For most people, yeah, just play with the new shaft and figure it out. You'll have to compensate aim less the lower the deflection, but if you're open to adjusting aim and you don't have a problem doing so,

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If people are leaving themselves shots where they are "afraid" of a little deflection, they don't know how to play position which means they don't know how to put the proper spin on the cue ball to begin with.

The cue ball goes straight if hit in the center with any kind of shaft.

If your cue makes the cue ball arc like a bowling ball on a 9-foot table when you are using English, throw it away.

HawaiianEye said:

If you have to change all of your "form" to play at the cue's pivot point, it is more of a hindrance than an attribute.

For example:

I have around a 10-12" bridge.
The front of my grip hand is around 3" below the top of the wrap.
When I am leaned over the table for a "normal" shot, this is where most cues feel balanced to me.
In "that" stance, my eyes and body have learned that is what works best and has been engrained into my visual and muscle memory.

If I would go to a cue that required me to bridge the cue several inches back at another pivot point that would:

Make me have to grip further back in order to make the cue feel the same balance.
Make me have to adjust my stance at the table because to keep the tip at the same distance from the cue ball when stroking, I would have to be further back from the table.
It would change my angle of sight and when bent over the cue and looking down the shaft.

Anything can be learned if you put enough time into it, but changing things to keep up with fads should be left to people who are actually making money playing pool and who are getting stuff for free from their sponsors.

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I don't disagree with that; however how far you want to go can change what you might want to do. For most people, yeah, just play with the new shaft and figure it out. You'll have to compensate aim less the lower the deflection, but if you're open to adjusting aim and you don't have a problem doing so,

Jaden said:

Yeah, I can play with a broomstick, but most people paying $500 for a LD CF shaft may want to take the game a little bit more seriously than that.

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If you have to change all of your "form" to play at the cue's pivot point, it is more of a hindrance than an attribute.

For example:

I have around a 10-12" bridge.
The front of my grip hand is around 3" below the top of the wrap.
When I am leaned over the table for a "normal" shot, this is where most cues feel balanced to me.
In "that" stance, my eyes and body have learned that is what works best and has been engrained into my visual and muscle memory.

If I would go to a cue that required me to bridge the cue several inches back at another pivot point that would:

Make me have to grip further back in order to make the cue feel the same balance.
Make me have to adjust my stance at the table because to keep the tip at the same distance from the cue ball when stroking, I would have to be further back from the table.
It would change my angle of sight when bent over the cue and looking down the shaft.

Anything can be learned if you put enough time into it, but changing things to keep up with fads should be left to people who are actually making money playing pool and who are getting stuff for free from their sponsors.

I have played for many decades and have thousands and thousands of hours on the table and have HAMB.

I have HD, LD, wood and carbon fiber shafts and I never change anything except my aiming point. I know where the cue ball is going to go when I shoot.