I know many of you here have put on hundreds of tips. I am sure it is a wide range but ballpark how many tips would you do with a HSS cutting tool before you need to sharpen?

congrats on copy and pasting from ChatGPT, that’s almost as useless as the OP and less fun to read.

iusedtoberich said:

Wu is tough to watch. He’s almost Souquet slow.

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show us your playing speed when there is 1.2m dollars riding on the line

I still have some extra copies of these 1970s pool newspapers.

maha said:

colivita mostly played straight pool. but bet 20 to 50 a game regularly. few wanted to bet with him as he was too good.

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As a teen I watched Colivita gamble with a player named Ernie Lager in the '60's.
Ernie wasn't quite on Colavita's level, but he had money and loved the limelight of playing in front of a crowd.

David in FL said:

Nor does it factor natural ability.

I'd argue that regardless of effort and coaching, a significant % of the population is simply incapable of playing at a 500+ level. Far less at a 600 level...

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I've been playing since 1961 and have seen 100's and 100's of players.
Almost without exception a player reaches a certain level and stays there for life.

As posted earlier in the thread I installed the soft blue on a house cue and left it at my local bar. This was in Sept 2024. At the end of the month I cut off the expected mushroom. I have not done anything to it in the past 20 months other than scuffing the top a few times. I do play with it myself. I never told anyone about the tip so there is no bias for or against. No one has complained as far as I know and it obviously has been used. Miss-cues and chalk grinding is apparent.

Here are a couple pictures. First installed and 20 months later. Also next to some of the other popular cues. They have triangles installed Spring of 2022 so they have a couple more years on them.

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Again this is a brand new shaft , never used.

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