jimstone said:

How do you troubleshoot your potting to decide if it is your aim, or mechanics (stance, vision center, grip -stroke) that caused the miss? This has become frustrating for me on long, difficult cut shots.

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Mensabum said:

Keep up the good work!!

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RidgeRaider said:

I live a few minutes away from McDermott. Next time I'm in there I'll ask Jamie what and how they got involved with that. I'm sure he's got the backstory.

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j2pac said:

Great thread.

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Cicerone88 said:

My memory is blurry on this, but I think there’s an old thread in this forum where someone knew or had a very good theory as to how McDermott got involved in the movie. McDermott never made it publicly known of their involvement.

For the longest time everyone thought they were all Joss cues. Even Dan Janes himself is quoted in this forum saying 99% of the cues used were Joss. Which as we can clearly see now thanks to movies being remastered in HD that wasn’t true.

McDermott did eventually mention the D series being in the movie on their website in their retired cues page.

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iusedtoberich said:

Well I thought this thread would be dumb, but I'm throughly impressed! Nice work.

What is the background of the relationship? Did McDermott pay to be an advertiser/product placement? Were they in the credits? Did they have magazine ads at the time saying something like: "our cues were in the movie, you should buy them"?

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Hungarian said:

You should consider a career as a Rhymester of sonnets and limericks.

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Cicerone88 said:

Yeah it’s hard to make out. I can see two rings on each end of the butt (one below the wrap and one above the butt cap) that look almost like copper. I thought it may have been a Schon but I’ve looked through so many catalogs and can’t find any matches. Maybe a joss aficionado can chime in as their archives are now hidden unfortunately. Before you could go on Joss’ website and look through them all. Now you have to email them to verify

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JPB2 said:

It was somewhere in between just shooting pool and the gear focus of today IMO. My experience…Shafts were maple. Then people would sand the crap out of them with Scotchbrite or sandpaper. The pool hall where I bought my first cue you could get a Le Pro or a Le Pro for a tip replacement. That is only a slight exaggeration. Chalk was Master. Meucci had a following. Where I played they’d make fun of the plastic joint. I had one for a while anyway, but there was a big preference for a metal joint where I played a lot. Adam was a popular brand. Heard about mystical custom brands, but saw few. Saw Joss Wests in Denver, Stroud was in Colorado then. One guy from NY had a Balabushka. Well used. Not babied at all. Saw the occasional Viking, Schon, Palmer. Mc Dermott was popular. More so at places without the strong metal joint bias where I played. No break cues. No jump cues. 1x1 or 1x2 cases mostly. The one accessory from then that has disappeared now is the apron. GC skirts would put a black line on your pants.

My recollections from my era in the mid to late ‘80’s.

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