Richard told me yesterday that he is not doing them anymore.

I’ve got this Aramith 2 1/4” American Snooker set. Also an Aramith 8-ball set with numberless in blue and yellow.

They’re interesting, definitely a different experience watching them glide around the table especially after an open break. Otherwise there’s no playing difference for me. I don’t use ball markings as aiming points.

As for straight pool practice; sure why not but I still use the standard numbered set. The numberless sets are basically collecting dust and used for whatever special occasion. Or if someone asks about them.

Carnivore diet my man. Pair that with drinking only water and black coffee, period. You’ll lose the weight, feel better, sleep better, play better.

Back up for sale.

Why?

jay helfert said:

They also built amazing structures 5,000-10,000 years ago and we still don't know how they did it.

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Darn right. I visited Stonehenge in June with a friend. The tour guide, who referred to it as "a giant 4,000-year-old Lego" noted that not only have they not figured out how they erected the structure, which involved lifting stones that weighed thousands of pounds, to great heights, but they cannot figure out how the stones (of a type only available in Northern Wales at the time, some 100+ miles away) were brought to the Salisbury plain on which Stonehenge sits.

The evidence that even prehistoric man had a great comprehension of science and engineering is undeniable, but nobody can fully explain numerous prehistoric achievements. Yes, the pyramids and Stonehenge are the best know mysteries, but there are many others.

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See that's another one. They can change that number without notification Might be a lie in the first place.

3kushn said:

Sorry but I don't know who this cue was made for. This is obviously a house cue conversion. Many times and thankfully the cue he made for me the shaft wood came from really old straight house cues. I'll have to believe he thought the butt of this cue was in excellent shape so he used it. The shafts may have come from a different cue or or possibly shaft blanks.

Harry wasn't known for fancy work but his cues hit real good. You're correct that his taper had some relief vs the European Conical Taper. His feeling was the shaft needed a tiny bit of flex. Occasionally I'll pull the cue off the rack and play with it for a bit.

When I decided to get a Dieckman, Dennis asked me to measure the shaft. He wanted to know what this Champion chose for himself. The taper was really close to what he called his universal taper. Good for both games. Before making a decision on what taper I wanted from Dennis, he sent me both tapers to try out for a couple months. I decided on the universal even though for several years prior I was playing with a Longoni and standard European Taper. This taper is sometimes called the Mazin Shooni taper. Tiger Cues through Mazin knows the cut. I tell you all this because Harry knew a lot more than what he was credited for. You could say, a Hall of Fame Cue Builder used the same taper that Harry developed himself. He may have admitted he had some help from Bert Schrager. I don't know much about his shafts, but Harry spent a lot of time in Bert's shop. As did Dieckman.

It appears your cue doesn't have his "weight system" where you could change the weights in the butt end. But you might want to pull out the butt cap and see if there's a screw and brass weights back there. It was a takeoff of Schuler's weights. Harry's 3 Cushion cues were very butt heavy. If you do have this, your cue is unique since he used a different butt cap for his weight system. Yours would be an earlier cue than mine.

I believe he told me he was the only National Champion that won using a cue he made for himself.
That cue was stolen out of his car. Very sad.

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Although the cue I started this post with does not have the weight system you mentioned, I found another that does.

This latest cue is butt heavy as you say and does seem to be a proper 3 cushion cue. Interestingly, it has a brass ferrule.

I hope to get some decent pictures to post of this additional cue later today.

For those that are interested, here is a teaser:

nicksaint26 said:

I’m going to guess the last pick will be a surprise like Lukas or Atencio.

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if i'm trying to read the tea leaves, and skylers' appearance on UP USA is among these leaves, you may be onto something there

jay helfert said:

I never totally agreed with it. There are often other better ways to shoot certain shots. TOI is not the end-all, be-all to play better pool.

I'd recommend the Miz when he said Practice, Practice and more practice. Also Ray Martin's 99 Critical Shots. There several other great sources of Pool info that never mentions anything about TOI.

By advancing a theory like this throws everything CJ says into question. And then this childish nonsense about the Sun, the Moon and three ball combos takes the cake.

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Not every system works for everyone.

I happen to like the TOI system.

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benny-the-blade said:

One more wildcard pick to go, I believe. Most expect it to be Sky Woodward.

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Wouldn't that be nice? Going to bat with four of the five from last year's team that totally bombed in England. Seriously? Does swapping out Thorpe for Bergman actually make this a stronger team than the 2025 team? I would say no, it's about break even. It just makes Team USA a little older.

Unless we get Europe's "C" game, this is a no contest. Then again, we got Asia's "C" game at the Reyes Cup, so maybe it will prove contagious.

Bergman, who played his first WNT event in August, is a reasonable choice given the other available choices, but he had a terrible year without a single appearance in the Top 16 at a WNT ranking event and he's 39. Very reminiscent of Earl, an old player who was named to Team USA in a year in which he accomplished nothing. Skyler, to a large extent, sat out the WNT season and, like Bergman, never posted a top 16 in a Matchroom ranking event. Yes, he was once a committed and successful WNT player, but he has largely turned his back on the tour of late. A year ago, he was probably the worst playing captain in Mosconi Cup history. His pedigree is long since proven, but he has done nothing to earn a place on Team USA.

Matchroom needs to rethink all of this. The year after year after year exclusion of young players on Team USA is not only disturbing but it sets Team USA up for future failures. Seems the days of players not committed to or successful on the WNT being omitted from Team USA are over. Perhaps we need to return to the days of when there were no specified requirements, participation or other, for being a wildcard choice.

The only hope here lies in the fact that in 2018, Johann bucked the trend and selected somewhat unknown and largely unproven Tyler Styer to Team USA, and it worked, as Tyler was a key contributor to the winning effort that year. At least Johan has it in him to go young, At present, though, he's got a team consisting of a Russian and three Americans who have an average age of 38. If the last pick is the 33-year old Woodward, it will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that young players are, for practical purpose, ineligible for Team USA consideration. The saddest part about that is that young American players, already suspicious of the process, will feel even more disincentivized to even try for inclusion on future editions of Team USA.

We know how badly Matchroom wants Team USA to win, but unless Emily either begs Team Europe to fire blanks or sharks the Team Europe players herself, we might need Team Europe to dog its brains out for Team USA to win eleven matches.

The only good news is that the Mosconi Cup is great fun no matter what the score is, so I'm looking forward to it.