About 10 or so years ago I was looking for micarta ferrules. Got in touch with him and he found
his last 2 original Westinghouse micarta from Schon. I think his place was named "Full Splice Billiards" IIRC.
I had 1 put on a shaft that I sold and had the other put on 1 of my Rick Howard shafts. I still have it.
Glad he's back, and a beaty of a dog on his avatar.
I had a couple Schons that hit real soft. I’ve never played with a Runde though. I’d be curious to know if his cues have a similar feel. I hope to buy one of his cues soon.
I also find radial pin cues to feel like a softer hit. Am I the only?
I've never hit with a Schon that didn't feel like a piece of rebar. I like Schon, but it has always been the opposite of soft. Strong taper, LBM ferrules, and the "i can't believe that's leather" tips they come stock with have always translated to an ultra stiff hit. Played with a few Schon's back in the 2007-2013 days and always liked them. With the LBM ferrule you could hear my cue from the parking lot with the ping on a broken in tip.
You get better at tickies by playing them often in practice, especially if you explore and discover, make yourself try out counterintuitive combinations of english and thickness. There's no such thing as a "system" for tickies.
What i found funny about that, as soon as, he starts complaining he took his own glove off.....as if to say it couldn't off been me. Dennis never even touched the CB.
Here are the 32 undefeated players. I don't know if they will go onto the single elim bracket in this order. One-loss qualifiers below.
Arseni got past JJ by the skin of his teeth.
Fedor Gorst
Szymon Kural
Wiktor Zielinski
Brandon Shuff
Matt Edwards
Naoyuki Oi
Tyler Styer
Francisco Sánchez Ruiz
Marco Teutscher
Albin Ouschan
Niels Feijen
Bader Alawadhi
Cristian Surdea
Bernie Regalario
Alexander Kazakis
Johann Chua
Aloysius Yapp
Sanjin Pehlivanovic
Jefrey Roda
Sullivan Clark
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Wojciech Szewczyk
Chang Yu Lung
Joshua Filler
Eklent Kaci
Lu Hui Chan
Robbie Capito
Jayson Shaw
Moritz Neuhausen
Wu Kun Lin
John Morra
Carlo Biado
And here are the 32 who had one loss. Each match in the round of 64 will be one from each set of 32.
Denis Grabe
Nicholas Tan
Thorsten Hohmann
Emil Gangfløt
Fitim Haradinaj
Daniel Maciol
Karl Gnadeberg
Ko Ping Chung
Mustafa Alnar
Chris Reinhold
Mieszko Fortunski
Oliver Szolnoki
Arseni Sevastyanov
Jesús Atencio
Max Lechner
Michael Baoanan
Kuo Po Cheng
Aleksa Pecelj
Harry Vergara
Konrad Juszczyszyn
Jonás Souto
Baseth Mocaibat
Duong Quoc Hoang
Lo Ho Sum
Roberto Gomez
Hayato Hijikata
Lee Vann Corteza
Mickey Krause
Ko Pin Yi
Lukas Fracasso-Verner
Oscar Dominguez
Marvin Asis
