Ascension Carbon Fiber shaft.

I used to play in a pool hall with the old hanging lights with metal shades. If you are dumb enough (and I was) you could ding your shaft on the lights.

Also, using the bridge in some places with cheap metal bridge heads was dangerous.
I played in a fairly nice hall last Sunday that has low hanging metal pendant lights. I damn sure hit my shaft on one and might have been unhappy if I didn't play with CF.

Which Simonis Gray Is Darker?

That's why they have 22 favors...buy what you like. And Blue is for Police. To stay on topic Which Grey is darker that's a tough question.

If my wife took my pool table and left ...I miss my table. Seriously if wives have the say...the table will have claw legs, pink or red cloth and a top for dining.
When my x-wife informed me that it was her or the racecar my first thought was "I am really going to miss her"'

Mosconi Cup standings after the US Open

I disagree. Of the three, only Thorpe has even one high finish in WNT play. A much more reasonable view would be that none of them deserve to be selected.
You can be dogged at times, sjm. Very dogged! The only thing I agree with you with is the part I put in bold.
All three are over 30, and none represent the future of American pool. If Johan picked two young players instead of any of these, he'd have my fullest respect and I don't think America's chances would drop much, if any.
Like I said, dogged!

There is only one young U.S. player actually eligible by WNT rules whose inclusion might not hurt so bad. Sam Henderson. He might be able to hang with the big boys.

There are no others, as of now, sjm.

Fracasso-Verner would have fit, but he's hurt. Nathan Childress would be the next-best option, but he's a big step down from Bergman-Woodward-Thorpe. Payne McBride? Nope. He's not even on the WNT rankings list for U.S players. Shane Wolford? Hasn't played in enough events to be eligible. Nor has any other young player not listed here.

Definition of tips of English

Actually, the size of the contact patch varies a lot with tip shape and hardness and with shot speed. For those interested, the math and physics, along with plots, showing how much it varies can be found here:

That is correct.

I was trying to convey that only a small portion of the tip actually touches the cue ball.

Some people seem to think the whole surface of the tip hits it.

I have played long enough to know which portion of my tip connects with the cue ball when using English.

Pool cue cases

something always rubbed me the wrong way about padding being somewhat tight around a shaft. Figure it can't be all that bad, everybody loves them but it does keep me from buying one.
Well, here’s how I see it. I’ve used tube style cases since forever, been in more pool halls than I care to count, have put my cases over the years through their paces, and never had an issue with a cue being damaged, not even close.

I bought a JB 4x8 a few years back for storage, as I loaded it I realized like you, everything was kind of tight, and way too close together. There seemed to be a friction when trying to remove butts or shafts from it, also you had to load it and unload it a “certain way” because of how tight it was. I contacted JB and they confirmed it should be loaded and unloaded a certain way.

It certainly offers protection, but too tight IMO. I noticed how much smaller the JB 4x8 was compared to a Whitten 4x8 I had at the time was. It feels like you’re cramming too much into too little a space. Now you’ll have the freak occurrence happen occasionally where it might prove handy, I remember a post here about a guy that dropped his JB from a moving motorcycle. So I guess it’s ok there, but how often has anyone’s regular hard cases been subjected to an incident that resulted in damaged cues?

Definition of tips of English

I know at least three different definitions of tips of english. The problem comes in when you try to communicate to someone else. A relative newcomer tries to measure literal tips of english. Things can go wrong from the beginning because some measure one tip of english from the edge of the tip, six or seven mm from center. Others measure one tip width from center of cue ball. Before even starting to measure how many tips of english we start with two different starting points. Then some measure distance from their starting point, some measure the effect it has on the cue ball's path.

Things are perfectly unclear!!

Hu
Yep.

And how do you instruct someone where to hit the ball using words? What if the student's concept of center ball is off to the left or right? How do you then tell if they did hit where they intended to, without looking at the outcome of the shot (which could have separate aiming and visualization issues)?

How do you isolate the one and only single split-second event you as a player physically have over the game, and put it into language everyone can understand?

Houses can still be built with strings, but wouldn't a measuring tape make it easier?

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