Poolmanis said:

Again so good video! Learning a lot from Cha.
Login to view embedded media I don´t have access anymore to carom table but I play online on Shooter´s Pool. many won´t play longer matches there but last 20 matches(10-30p) almost exactly 1.0 avg! Best have been 4 avg to 20p It seem to take 2-3 weeks to get same results on real tables what i get on simulator. I actually want to celebrate my 50th birthday by year playing 3-cushion tournament... I am not sure if i can but there is ranking event near my little sisters place. I would like to get there day or 2 before so I could shoot some on real tables.

Also this new lesson from Dani is nice one! Login to view embedded media

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Good luck!

Here's the other part to my estate sale find. There were two more cues I left there because they were shorter and didn't have the old Brunswick labels. I paid $30 for the whole group and left those two because I thought they were garbage.

Then I found this on eBay (image below). Yup, those were that. looks like I made another bonehead move.

Funny, because I was thinking the other seven were antique Brunswick so those might be Brunswick too. I was a fleeting thought though. I should have at least taken them as potential shaft wood.

i think the agreed upon opinion is that book wise, winning one pocket and tom wirth's book are the best books. i haven't read them, but i've read upscale one pocket and it's quite rudimentary. i wouldn't bother with it.

i think it's beneficial to watch videos/streams of older players of a slightly lower than top tier level, ike runnels, john henderson, etc. they have the moves, and they need to use the moves a lot more than a pure shooter. or than a wizard like chohan

dr_dave said:

Sorry this took so long. I've been busy. Enjoy:

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Great video Dr. Dave. Thank you Sir.

Cuebuddy said:

If they have a screw hole in the butt end they probably had bumpers on them.
When these were made the bumpers were known as rubber noise subduer.
The labels on these cues show that they have been played a lot.
Bumpers are cheap and easy so I would clean them up and use them for play.

It looks like none have veneered points so the value of these for conversions will be limited. The ferrules on these old cues were commonly Ivory.
Great find and a fun project to make them playable again.

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I assumed the holes on the butt end were for bumpers, but I looked closer and unless my eyes seen wrong, they don't have threads. They look to be straight formed (drilled) holes. I was wondering if that's the center hole used to hold them in the lathe. I expected to see rough threaded holes made by a wood screw.

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Mensabum said:

Send them to a cuemaker you trust to pin them and make you a few awesome sneakies!! 3/8-10 wood to wood.
Trust me on this!!

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That's an idea I'll explore. So far I only have $30 invested in seven. I'm guessing the work to fix them up into good sneakies would be a few hundred each. Still might be worth it though.

Patrick Johnson said:

OnePocket.org - Dedicated to the game of One Pocket

www.onepocket.org

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Im a member, have an account. Don't visit there anywhere near as much as I should.

Mensabum said:

Well said!!
A competitor is a competitor in all things.
I think it comes down to personality types. You're either an Alpha, or a Beta.

How much time do you think you lost on the pull bcuz of your hearing??
.10 or more??
Less??

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The electronic timers of the time clicked a tenth of a second before they buzzed. I couldn't hear that click so that was a tenth lost right there. Then when the timer buzzed I had to be very careful to identify the buzz, starting on a false sound would disqualify the run at the least.

There is a strange contrast when drawing a gun fast on signal. If the hands start down early it is a DQ but naturally you want the first part of the signal to start on. The click is short, clean, gives a clean signal to launch on. The buzzer is a long comparatively soft sound. It is similar to other noises in the building. Not hearing the click before the buzzer cost a tenth as already mentioned. Then pausing to confirm it is actually the buzzer costs another tenth or two.

Average cost per start was probably a quarter second or more. That is a lot to give up when talking about around two seconds flat for a total run.

There was another place I lost time too, stopping on each target. Faster to sweep across the targets firing as you swing onto and past a target. Stopping is better practice for self defense in my opinion and that was the real objective for me, practicing for real world.

In the shoot off at an event we could start with a round in the chamber. The winner was determined by the fastest of three runs. I was putting seven rounds in my pistol figuring that two misses were a half second or more lost. I was saving weight with fewer rounds loaded that wouldn't do me any good anyway.

I had shot all seven rounds one run, rare. I assumed one in the chamber and the next run was met with the dreaded click. I had aligned properly, my stance was perfect from earlier runs. The buzzer sounded, I had a near perfect draw, the gun came up perfectly, and I snapped the hammer on an empty chamber. Stunned by the very rare failure to fire it took me long fractions of a second to figure out the problem. Put me out of the competition.

I racked the slide and brought my pistol up. Unusual for me, I just panned across the plates shooting as I went. It was poison fast, maybe a quarter second between shots on separate targets. Afterwards I asked a very facetious "Did I win?" Needless to say I wasn't in the same zip code as a win! The match was stopped for a few minutes while all of the young guns checked my splits between shots though, those splits were wicked tight. A semi-auto was claimed to jam if shooting under .15 second splits. My Hubilt pistols would cycle at 0.10 seconds without issues. I have seen them cycle properly at 0.08 seconds but that was just somebody playing putting bullets in the berm, no aiming involved.

I set four records with Hubilt guns. While they were local records, nationally and internationally ranked Masters and Grandmasters shot those matches so I was pretty pleased. I could build guns, had built close to a dozen, and I could have stayed busy just doing trigger jobs. My trigger jobs were well respected locally and my guns ran like seven day clocks.

Early morning bragging but I have never let time of day interfere with bragging!(grin)

Hu

Mensabum said:

For that much money, I'll fly to the Phillipines and ask Jay to buy me one.

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That’s another option