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These days your are correct. We went the last 2 years for acs and apa nationals . I used to love Vegas but I don’t need to go back. I know prices are insane everywhere but Vegas is out right stealing from people and I just can’t justify any of it. There is no value for the money that you’re spending. The only good time we had when we were there was Fremont st. That felt like old Vegas. If you haven’t been there for .. .sure . It’s a crazy experience unlike anywhere in the country but I’ve been a dozen or more times and this last time was enough.
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Jayson Shaw World Record video

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I would buy it if I could download it or get a DVD and watch it at my leisure. They might advertise "lifetime access," but you never know if they go out of business or lose connectivity or similar. I guess that I'm old school since I like to physically own my media. Does anyone know what file format the video is in? It might be possible to capture the video and save it on the hard drive.
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Custom Cue Prices Today

Bavafongoul
I used to have a Richard Black Bushka cue w/ivory joint I purchased from Cornerstone Cues I regret selling.
However, it did fund the purchase of my Scruggs cue so all in all I really couldn’t complain like I screwed up.

The cue I was referring to is a Ed Prewitt flat ivory joint. Basically if I did the deal, I’ve violated CA’s ivory ban.
However, both of us have reason to be in Las Vegas in the imminent future at the same time so it’s still legal.

My question is about future worth. Lots of people, usually the ones that don’t own an expensive cue, will tell
you the cue market is dying for high end cues. I never cared before getting this offer. My cues are for my kids.

I have more cues than than kids & grandkids combined so selling a cue wouldn’t ruin my original plan. I’d hate
to think years after I’m gone one of my children or grandkids would say, Boy, I wish dad had never sold that cue.

So I’m just checking because I don’t need the money. My IRA has increased so much the last thing I need is to
raise more cash since I have to take the minimal IRA withdrawal every year even though my IRA keeps going up.

I just don’t want to deny one of my kids, or grandkids, from inheriting a pool cue that would be more valuable than
it was right now. By that time could it become rare? I know Ed’s cue volume is limited & not a lot of flat ivory joints.

Just looking for opinions from people that have a vested interest in cue collecting or actively involved with cue sales.
The opinion of others with no skin in the game is like playing poker with chips that have no cash value whatsoever.
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Vegas

j2pac
7stud said:
At the airport withdraw $100k from a cash machine, then head to the Bellagio hotel. Don't worry about prices, just toss $100 bills everywhere and don't ask for change. When you board your departure flight, if you have any C-notes left, then you should consider it a successful trip.



They used to have a mock sky diving thing you could do. You put on a wing suit, then you entered a wide tube with a jet engine below the chicken wire floor. They would turn on the engine, and you would be lifted by the updraft. The idea was to try to keep your body horizontal to the floor, but the wing suit was so unstable, you would get thrown into the padded walls like a rag doll, then you would drop to the floor like a rock, maybe on your head. The ambulances were parked out back, so they could ferry 1 in 5 customers to the hospital. DON'T DO THAT!
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I was thinking I might take a thousand, and hope to come back with a couple of 10's.
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Rusty in Montana said:
my goal is to get a hat similar to what UJ Puckett was so famous for wearing !
I loved the looks of that hat , I feel I could shot almost as well as he could wearing one ! Ha ha
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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

Rocket354
SSP said:
The Bulletproof Recoil tip is a really hard tip but it holds chalk like no other, once you shape it all you need is a TipPik type tool to rough it up, I just tap it straight in at the same curvature as the tip and it lasts for about 20 hours of continuous play, you will get a minimum of 1 year out of the tip but I suspect double if not triple that, I also had an 1/8" acrylic pad added, I find no difference in hit and it will save you from having to replace the clear or white ferrule for a long time if ever.
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I wish. Both my shafts have green Recoils. Both have needed scuffing every 4-5hrs of play. I bought their own scuffer and then I needed scuffing every 2-3 hrs. It was ridiculous. I've found the Willard's tool works best--probably can push it to 7-8.
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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

Rocket354
SSP said:
Dr Dave says 10.5 mm is the magic number for a dime radius, I did use an 11.8 mm shaft and am using a 12.0mm shaft now, I can't believe how far I can go high,low or sidespin since I reshaped my tip.
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I saw that video. I play with a 10.5 and thought "oh, perfect." Got my tips shaped to a dime radius and...miscued too much. They've since flattened/been reshaped to a nickel and I'm back to normal.

I'll have to rewatch that video to see how rigorously he made that determination.
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Vegas

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but if you're going, do it right.
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At the airport withdraw $100k from a cash machine, then head to the Bellagio hotel. Don't worry about prices, just toss $100 bills everywhere and don't ask for change. When you board your departure flight, if you have any C-notes left, then you should consider it a successful trip.

do's, don'ts,
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They used to have a mock sky diving thing you could do. You put on a wing suit, then you entered a wide tube with a jet engine below the chicken wire floor. They would turn on the engine, and you would be lifted by the updraft. The idea was to try to keep your body horizontal to the floor, but the wing suit was so unstable, you would get thrown into the padded walls like a rag doll, then you would drop to the floor like a rock, maybe on your head. The ambulances were parked out back, so they could ferry 1 in 5 customers to the hospital. DON'T DO THAT!
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As for places to stay my personal fav is VDara. It's smack dab in the middle of Bellagio, Cosmo and Aria. Each one can be walked to in less than 4 min. But it's non gaming so you can get away from that easily at any time. No restaurants but there's a lobby bar and a convenience store. There's also a Starbucks but it was often closed last time I was there so not sure what's up with that.

You're just so close to everything staying at Vdara and getting to Griff's is a breeze as well maybe 10 min drive if that without even touching the strip which can be a nightmare traffic wise.

If I didn't stay at Vdara I'd stay at Park/NoMad. Non smoking property with several great restaurants under one roof.

Everything is expensive. Yes, many places will be cheaper. Especially downtown but if you're going, do it right.

I also have a soft spot for Venetian/Palazzo as that's where my wife and I got married. Love the property and staff there is generally great.
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Funny pic/gif thread...

ShootingArts
Jaden said:
I have another story about the ranch from a few years previous. I was about 17 and my grandpa had had a stroke and we had him living at the ranch with a live in caretaker, a former friend of my mom's.

So my dad got a call from Kitty (the caretaker) and she said that there was a smell coming from the bakery. When we lived on the ranch when I was a kid, my dad had built a bakery there and my grandpa had put a walk in fridge for hanging deer and two horizontal top load freezers and he had hundreds of lbs of meat in one of the freezer's.

Well it turns out my grandpa had walked out to the bakery and flipped the breaker so that the power was out and all of that meat had rotted. The bakery was about 75-100 yards from the main house, so if Kitty was smelling the rotten meat it had to be bad.

We lived in Redlands Ca and technically the ranch was in Redlands too, but out in the canyon about 15 minutes outside of town. My dad said, "Kevin, go out to the ranch and dig a hole with the backhoe and bury the rotten meat.

I go out there and have trouble even getting into the bakery because of how bad the smell was. I walked in and managed to lift the top of one of the freezers but the smell was just too bad. So I go back home and say to my dad "You don't understand how bad the smell is, I couldn't do it. I could barely get the door open, let alone carry the meat out".

My dad responds, "Oh, it can't be THAT bad. Come on guys let's all go out to the ranch".

So we all went out to the ranch. My mom couldn't get 20 feet from the door before she stopped and started retching. My dad got through the door but turned back around and went out also retching saying "You're right son, I didn't understand". LOL.

We ended up sliding open the double doors, strapping a chain to the freezer and dragging it out into the field with the backhoe. They had wetted bandanas and sprayed them with perfume to be able to get close enough to strap up the freezer. We dug like a 9 feet deep hole and dumped all of the meat into the hole and covered it over.

At first, my dad was like, just bury the whole freezer, but me and my cousin were able to salvage it after washing it with bleach and ammonia.
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Small world syndrome! My friend Rudy lived in Redlands and had a camera store, focused on medium frame back then. I drove 6500 miles to see him before he died of cancer.

Our house burned down when I was three or four. Dad had a big commercial double door chest type freezer on the back porch. Being a farmer it was full of meat and vegetables. This freezer was as big as two big home freezers maybe bigger and it had been near full. Never forgot the smell when dad opened a lid a few days later. It had cooked and rotted down to mostly liquid about eighteen inches deep! No salvage there or anywhere else in the house.

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Funny pic/gif thread...

ShootingArts
Rusty in Montana said:
A few years ago a good friend of mine was out checking his cows and a handful of traps and snares when a tie rod snapped as he was going down a hill in his pasture .
He jacked it up and did something to try and get it wired back together instead of just calling a wrecker to come and get him .
Long story short he was underneath the front end when it fell and pinned him down they found him dead a couple hours later .
A sad deal all around that was made even worse because I wasn't healthy enough to travel to Nebraska for the funeral because I had just finished up cancer treatments .
Yes I still think of him often !
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People still get hurt bad or killed over the craziest things. My cousin in maybe his forties lived alone. Fell in his yard, no idea why. Hit his head on concrete and it was hours before they found him.

Hu
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I have been so many times now it's hard to even estimate but I think it will be quite awhile before I go back honestly.

Only thing I miss is about a dozen restaurants and some pretty solid golf courses...
Bavette's @ParkMGM Steaks are great of course but the low key best thing on the menu is the chicken
Bouchon @Venetian French Bistro Get the Chicken and hopefully a deliciously(subtle) rude waiter!
Javier's @Aria shockingly great filet and everything else is great too. My personal fav.
Sinatra @Wynn Just a solid spot with a good vibe
Carbone @Aria was my fav for a long time but they killed the vibe for me and it's been hard to go back, still worth it if you haven't been.
Komodo @Fontainbleu fantastic Asian fusion with some of the best small plates you'll ever have.

Griff's is a nice place in its own way but incredibly pricey if you just wanna practice.

Absinthe is the only show I can confidently suggest to anyone. Any seat in the house will do, there isn't a single bad one. Have taken 2 dozen people to it over the years and every single one of them had a blast.
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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

Hail Mary Shot
SSP said:
The Bulletproof Recoil tip is a really hard tip but it holds chalk like no other, once you shape it all you need is a TipPik type tool to rough it up, I just tap it straight in at the same curvature as the tip and it lasts for about 20 hours of continuous play, you will get a minimum of 1 year out of the tip but I suspect double if not triple that, I also had an 1/8" acrylic pad added, I find no difference in hit and it will save you from having to replace the clear or white ferrule for a long time if ever.
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I have a pad added for that purpose to save me from sanding the ferrule. As long as the tip sticks, it won't be problem. Have to replace my previous glue with a different one. Glue sticks like a mofo that I didn't even have to press it.
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