With the amount of time required to make the balls and the amount of expensive automation it sure seems a ball set should cost a lot more than they do. That kinda raises another question, how many sets of pool balls are sold every year? Considering the amount of tables out there and how long they can last it seems like a niche market.
The Pool ball side might be somewhat of a niche market, but the expertise they have with resins means they could be providing products to other markets and/or investors with deep pockets.
to be great at pool you need to have the abilities of an athlete. and those that do that have it, the top exceptional ones go on to sports where there is money to be made and able to get famous.
in europe big money is not available as easily in sports as the u.s., so pool money gets closer to sports money and is easier to make.
thus more elite top athletes may gravitate to pool where in the u.s. it is mostly a dead end economically.
so pool is not profitable in our country for someone that can play other sports.
None of that really makes a lot of sense. We aren’t losing top pool players to the NFL or the NBA, lol. What promising other worldly young pool geniuses have turned in their cues for lucrative pro careers in anything? What famous pool players of the good old days were high level athletes?
I've read that world-wide there's something like 500mill+ that play pool. China of course has the most with around 2mill playing more than twice/week and around 250mill. that play at least some. Now add in Taiwan, Philippines, rest of the world. My point is there's a huge market for balls. There aren't just a ton of outfits making good phenolic balls. I can see why Dyna's factory runs 24/7.
Your right! There's 290ish million people in Indonesia and Pool is growing like crazy there, and the country's in Africa continues to grow their Pool leagues the market and the game could really continue to grow.
Looks like he doesn't see the phenolic you bored to add the plug, because the insert is black like the cf shaft. He doesn't realize the one you plugged has a black insert instead of a white one, which would show the contrast with your plug
