Business as usual. First place ?

Rusty in Montana said:

I can just imagine , I never went on the road playing pool even though Billy Saunders tried hard to get me to go with him , I had a wife and kids , and she was a needy one and not always in a good way . A divorce was a good investment in that case !

So,yes I should've hot the road with Billy ha ha !

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You were smarter than me. I was a poolroom bum even after getting married. I did not want a job. I'd rather lay in wait for a live one, or go on the hunt. I just wanted to play pool every day and make a little money doing it.

Patrick Johnson said:

Does a narrow tip contact the CB farther from center?

pj
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It can. Hit the same shot with a 12.5mm tip and then a 11mm tip. Watch how much english is imparted to the cue ball and how much it spins off the rail. Let me know what you think.

Popular belief is that no matter the tip size the same amount of contact with the cue ball is made. I would dispute that.

skogstokig said:

manas beat orcullo for a decent sum last year or the year before that

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Dennis lost a speed during his ban. No longer Tier One in the PI

j2pac said:

What is the latest with regards to Orcullo?

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His five year ban ends in Jan. 2027.

Yep , Mensabum has gone out of his way to help me out many times as well . Shout out to a fine brother indeed !!

Frosty said:

The place I play has all Diamonds, 9’s in the front and 7’s in the back for leagues. The guy that owns the place is a Diamond Dealer as well as owning a table
moving/repair/recovering business. Even he has a hard time keeping the bar boxes in good shape, those league people beat those tables to death.

He’ll recover them all and within a week the damage to the new cloth from bangers getting food stains on it because they can’t seem to reconcile that if you want to eat chicken wings, you should eat your wings, wash your hands and then reconvene play seems lost on the drunken league animals. They don’t respect anything.

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I find that in my room also.
Some that play in the evening leagues on the Diamond bar boxes have little or no respect for the equipment.

NY Lefty said:

what's the pin on the predator sneaky ? Doesn't appear to be original ?????

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Yeah looks like its been changed to 3/8x10.

I dont think that guy knows what straight pool even is or that you have to call a specific ball and pocket on the break. He probably has the wrong forum section.

Frosty said:

The place I play has all Diamonds, 9’s in the front and 7’s in the back for leagues. The guy that owns the place is a Diamond Dealer as well as owning a table
moving/repair/recovering business. Even he has a hard time keeping the bar boxes in good shape, those league people beat those tables to death.

He’ll recover them all and within a week the damage to the new cloth from bangers getting food stains on it because they can’t seem to reconcile that if you want to eat chicken wings, you should eat your wings, wash your hands and then reconvene play seems lost on the drunken league animals. They don’t respect anything.

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Sad but true , I play in two of the three pool leagues in the small town near my home , and we police the food eaters during a match rather closely so that doesn't happen often ,

jay helfert said:

Live and learn Rusty. I had all my own tools to change tips, clean up nicks and do general cue maintenance. My motel room was often my work shop. You could come into my room and see a cue in the corner upside down, new tip on the floor drying. I'd leave it like that overnight and be able to shape it the next day. Oh yeah!

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I can just imagine , I never went on the road playing pool even though Billy Saunders tried hard to get me to go with him , I had a wife and kids , and she was a needy one and not always in a good way . A divorce was a good investment in that case !

So,yes I should've gone on the road with Billy ha ha !

j2pac said:

My initial thoughts after scuffing the tip, are promising. It felt a little like phenolic when I first started messing around with it, but it scuffs like extremely hard/pressed leather. Maybe it's resin impregnated, though I am not sure. Seems to hold chalk VERY well. I'm interested to see how it performs.

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It's actually a type of vulcanized rubber. Although when most people hear rubber. they tend to think bouncy and soft. These tips are anything but. I will eventually also have my original idea for standard playing tips which will be resin impregnated, but leather. I don't want to get into the details until I have them fully prototyped and ready to go to market.

straightline said:

Is the L bracket on each ball functional to aiming?

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They can be. Really most aiming systems are just ways of visualizing the key geometric concept of two spheres joining together, There are two contact points, not just one.

Everybody tends to focus on the contact point on the object ball. There's also the contact point on the cueball. Most people tend to skip past that.

Most aiming systems attempt to successfully join those two contact points together. it's easy to find the contact point on the object ball.

Just get right behind the ball in line with the pocket and the center of the ball both vertically and horizontally on the back of the ball relative to the pocket is your cp.

On the cueball the cp is on the front of the cueball (cb) on the centerline of the cb on a line that is parallel to the line for the object ball (ob).

The line between those two points is the travel line. If you can make the cb travel along that line, the ob will go in the pocket (all things being equal).

It gives you a starting point for a center ball strike on rhe cb. Whatever way visualizing that and joining those two spots together works for you is what you should use.

You can use an L shape visualization que on both balls, another one I use is what I call join the T's.

Draw an imaginary line from the pocket (or desired destination) through the center of the ob relative to that desired destination. Then draw a line on the back of the ball on the tangent line. forming the shape of the letter T.



Draw a parallel line to that line starting at the front of the cb back and draw a line on the tangent line on the front of the cb relative to that line also forming the shape of the letter T and then imagine those two T's joining, that's the line of the path of the cb that will make the shot (again, all things being equal)

That's why I call that one joining the T's.

what's the pin on the predator sneaky ? Doesn't appear to be original ?????

This cue is being a real....

Jaden said:

Here you go.

:edit: That's not exactly the way 'I' visualize, but that's the way that it shows geometrically correct without having to get into a crazy detailed explanation, and it gets the jist of it.

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Is the L bracket on each ball functional to aiming?

The place I play has all Diamonds, 9’s in the front and 7’s in the back for leagues. The guy that owns the place is a Diamond Dealer as well as owning a table
moving/repair/recovering business. Even he has a hard time keeping the bar boxes in good shape, those league people beat those tables to death.

He’ll recover them all and within a week the damage to the new cloth from bangers getting food stains on it because they can’t seem to reconcile that if you want to eat chicken wings, you should eat your wings, wash your hands and then reconvene play seems lost on the drunken league animals. They don’t respect anything.

manas beat orcullo for a decent sum last year or the year before that

Jaden said:

I'd hate to be that apartment owner...

:edit: If I was that apartment owner, I'd be buying a used charger r/t and offering that to him if he would just sign this little piece of paper.

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you would be just fine because it was AI. notice how the hamburgers all stayed on the grill impeccably lined up. other than that it looked quite real. i don't know who could film it and not fall down, or why that vertical picket on the railing would break in its weld first, but that's not as improbable as the hamburgers

Mensabum said:

Jaden's break tips are the Bomb!! I didn't post anything bcuz I didn't want everybody beating me to the punch.
Limited quantities, dontchaknow.
Shame on me.

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My initial thoughts after scuffing the tip, are promising. It felt a little like phenolic when I first started messing around with it, but it scuffs like extremely hard/pressed leather. Maybe it's resin impregnated, though I am not sure. Seems to hold chalk VERY well. I'm interested to see how it performs.