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WobblyStroke · Jun 16, 2026

I think the biggest factor is that the top Poles work together. They travel together, practice together, and help one another improve. Americans are all lone wolves. The Poles act like a team.

BarenbruggeCues · Jun 16, 2026

middleofnowhere said:
Years ago it was becoming a common thing for cue makers to dip shaft wood in a product called Nelsonite. There may have been other products but that's the one that I believe Billy Stroud and Tim Scruggs for both using.

Tried it....sent it to the round circular can.
IMO it does nothing but fill the pores with a substance that adds a little weight and deadens the tone of the shaft.
It'll give you a serious headache from the smell and continually permeates the shop with the stink every time you make a cut.
The negatives far out weigh the positives.
A piece of shaft wood is not going to stop moving just because it got soaked.
If the shaft is properly sealed when completed on both ends and along the length, with proper care you should have a winner if the builder was able to pick out a good piece of shaft wood and make the proper cuts and wait time to make sure it'll stay straight.

BarenbruggeCues · Jun 16, 2026

I posted this piece of amboyna some years back. Finally made it around to finishing it into a playing instrument.
Very hard to bring myself to make any cuts into this piece. Probably why it took so long to finish.
Finally settled on just letting Mother Nature show off some of her best.
The final cut was showing just a few of the smallest black inclusions on this golden behemoth.

Enjoy!

ShootingArts · Jun 16, 2026

middleofnowhere said:
That's been my problem on a number of occasions. Have long hair and a beard and I've looked like a biker since my mid twenties. In fact I'm almost 80 and I still do. My hair reaches the middle of my back my beard mid chest. It's not on purpose, but I also don't look friendly.

I once was pulled over suspected of stealing my own car. A cop saw me get in my car a Firebird Formula 400. that was usually parked in front of my building all day. I guess I didn't look like the owner. I also dressed pretty bad in those days.

Another time I was kept for like half hour on the side of the road after being stopped on suspicion. I was driving around my girlfriend's neighborhood at 2 am waiting for her to come home. I had about $3000. In my pocket.

I have to admit I was not very cooperative as they were rude to me. The One cop asked me about the money and I gave him no explanation other than it was mine. And he says "You better not be lying to me boy". That was it I didn't even care if they arrested me. In those days my lawyer was Joe Varon. Google him Florida.
I recently had contact with some cops I called after a break in. It took like 2 minutes to be sorry I even called them.

Man can I sing those songs! Got in a little trouble in the early seventies. A fight, some property damage. Just used the free bed overnight then called my brudda in law. "Look in the top of my closet and bring the cash." Three months pay or more for the cops. Some from my business, most from pool. The cops wanted to know where it came from. "I earned it." They were pissed, the only answer they got though. I figured it was my business if I earned it at my shop turning wrenches or on a pool table nudging balls around. As you can see by my avatar I was a clean cut American citizen.

Been storming everyday around here and I have a gimp in my giddy-up. My hair is longer than it has ever been! Tempted to let it grow until I hit eighty, might reach my belt!

Hu

GoldCrown · Jun 16, 2026

Musky… First time I used a ME. It was dry. Messed up the wall. Had to learn how to use it. I do use the Eraser to clean shafts. But yes it has to wet/damp with a good cleaning media and proper touch.

skor · Jun 16, 2026

The old time greats leaned pool through their pockets, the path was to gamble and play against better players, loose a lot until you can win.
This might have worked in gamblers scenes, and tournaments back then were no more than hustlers conventions... this attitude can not beat a well trained athlete. A street fighter won't beet a top pro boxer in a pro boxing match.
The gambler mentality still rules America pool.
It's not as if there are no gambling in other countries, sure there is and most of the top players gamble or play money games, but the learning path is different.

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