fastone371 said:

I have not seen anyone mention lights or the light reflection on the object ball. I use that a lot when I can, I know I cant be the only one who does that.

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A guy explained the reflection method years ago and it made perfect sense. Now I can't even picture it. May be useful for actual players - take the sweat out of certain shots.

Nogbert said:

I'm jealous! my rails have a decent number of dents etc... not sure it would be worth the cost to repair or replace... it does nag me though.

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The Formica can be worked and painted the same way as automotive body work is done. My GCI had several cigarette burns, so I sanded it, filled the burns and dents, then painted. I'm not a huge fan of wood grain Formica to begin with, so I was happy to have something different.

hunger strike said:

I see that it is listed in Wikipedia, but prior references had all said Jack. Not sure why they changed the name to John in the article, but notice there is no wiki page for a John Carr billiard player.

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Ok. Jack is obviously a common nickname for John.

Patrick Johnson said:

To me it appears as a 3d image of a circumference (the "equator") on a clear CB - an ellipse from any angle except from straight overhead.

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It lets you see through an opaque ball. Cool part for me.

vintagecollectibles831 said:

Edit: Thanks a lot to "Cornerman" below, for letting me know that this Karella cue was probably built by KPS in Taiwan (maybe in the late 80's, he said), in Ernie Chen's pool cue factory. The same factory that built Falcon cues, I believe.

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I’ll re-ask on the date as I think he made a mistake. (Edit: he’s now saying early 90’s)

Cornerman said:

There’s a bit of timeline to this, Both Pete and Don walked away from this venture when the first batch of cues came. Several years later, Spektar restarted Karella alone. Pete gave permission to continue using the name. The Karella Cue Company were not part of Adam or Competition sports at the onset.

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I can see my post is misleading or plain incorrect . Don says he never walked away from Karella.

Wow, pool could be fun to watch if there were a young CJ playing today. You could have a 15 sec time clock and it wouldn't matter.
Really liked that.

I would say something like the timed Ultimate Pool format. Actually could be fun. You're just having a fun get together. Maybe try 40 sec at first, and if too long drop it to 30 sec. One of the non shooters could be the time keeper. Would be fun and go about as quick or quicker as any other game. If not so many show up try something else.

If you search this site, you should come across that cue as it has been posted on here before

DrCue'sProtege said:

Not sure one can use the term custom with a Falcon cue.

I could be mistaken, however.

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Well, I consider a one of a kind or non standard cue a custom. I too could be mistaken. Thanks.