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Rich Cue / Starfire Jet?

Cornerman
11Cues said:
That seems plausible, the original owner stated that he purchased in the late sixties after returning from Vietnam. I believe I read somewhere that Saul founded the company, and was followed up by Abe, maybe a father son thing? I'm not sure, but I appreciate the feedback. (y)
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The Bowery Billiards Company was started by Isadore Rich. His son Sol (Saul) started Rich Cue as an offshoot. Bowery concentrated on billiard balls. Cousin Abe joined the company years after his holocaust survival as a worker bee. An apprentice, so to speak. But make no mistake, Sol was the cue maker. So any wild hopes of an “Abe era Rich Q” is not a thing.

Abe moved to Florida ~1965 because NY was too cold for his broken body. He founded Florida Cues with his brother Morris, and then eventually when Morris realized there was no money in cues, Abe rebranded as Star Cues, paying homage to his Jewish faith.

Rich Cue is Sol Rich and then eventually Isaac Algave, branded as Rich Q and Rich Cue.

Abe Rich Cues are Florida Cues and Star Cues. Abe didn’t do inlays.
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Tournament administration fees

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This question pertains to a person who runs an 8 ball tournament in a tavern and charges $1.00 per person. The tavern matches the total buy ins ($5.00 each). This person also plays in these tournaments and to me it seems to be a problem. He can win money without it costing him anything out of his pocket. He could show up totally broke and enter the tourny with money from his fees. Seems a bit fishy to me. Am I just being a nit? lol
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Savannah “The RoadRunner” Easton using a wood shaft?

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middleofnowhere said:
Everything you say is true but a new generation and future generations of players are going to be playing with CF. In many cases probably will never even have played with a wood shafts or have a desire to.

At a point wood shafts we'll just disappear as a natural result. I'm not going to do it but I'm sure there's endless numbers of an analogies that can be used to describe the same thing happening in other areas. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, just how the world turns.

It's funny I just like in the last week had an encounter with the same thing. Cleaning out some drawers and all of my hurricane supplies cuz it's hurricane season now. I must have had like a dozen flashlights all perfectly good and working that I threw out.

No one uses flashlights like those anymore. One of my new flashlights is hardly bigger than a Chapstick and will light things up like an automobile headlight. Times change and things change and hopefully for the better.

There's nothing wrong with not wanting to change. I drive a 35-year-old pickup truck runs perfect not a bunch of computers, parts are available it's easy to fix. But reality is it's got no airbags little in the way of safety devices and it's probably a death trap. I still drive it everyday though.
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I don't think wood cues will ever die unless we reach the point of all bar cues being carbon fiber.

Plus, it makes most financial sense for the cue manufacturers to sell a variety of shafts. Like Predator recently releasing the Centro, despite them overall doubling down on the Revo since 2016.
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How do you find your opponent's weakness?

Chili Palmer
markjames said:
you can tell a lot about people by their shoes and wedding ring

(right or left wrist, i don’t understand why people shoot pool and wear a watch)
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I've worn a watch for most of the 40 years I've been playing pool. Not sure what you're getting at, but for reference, I'm a lefty and wear my watch on my left hand, and because of this, it's never been an issue on the table.

Side note: I have often wondered if wearing it on the stroking arm, think breaking and/or shots that require more energy than normal (jump shots?), can affect the watch. I'm sure all of my watches are quartz driven so that part shouldn't be affected but, there's still lots of little moving parts inside, can something ever get rattled? I can't say I have ever noticed a difference but the inner mechanism of one of my watches has rotated?
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