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Cue Design: Unpopular opinion?

Black-Balled
scottypinthemix said:
Maybe because I started playing in the 80s. Maybe I'm stuck in time. I don't know, but I am forever going to be a fiend for ebony points and a white with black speckle linen wrap. That seems to be a less popular aesthetic as of late.
I don't like the leathers wraps. The cue I have now is wrapped in black with white linen and I do like the way it looks, but I am inevitably going to have to snatch one up that appeals to my 'stuck in the past' taste.
Am I alone in this?
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That is one ugly ass cue and thepoints aren't Ebony.

I dig ugly cues.
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Justin Bergman vs Tom Cousins

fastone371
GideonF said:
That rule is sort of a natural offshoot of their touching ball rule. It’s the snooker based rule - touching a solid you must shoot away from it but you are deemed to have hit the ball you are touching.

Their touching ball rule is weird to me, and especially weird in rotation. If you’re frozen to the 1b you should be able to shoot straight at any other ball, make it, then shoot at the one.
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In UPUSA rotation rules is your only option to play safe when frozen to the lowest ball on the table??
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Pia Filler hates wood shafts

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Chris said:
Nobody claimed otherwise.

What was said was that carbon fiber shafts are not impervious to damage, and repairing that damage is not trivial. It was also stated that removing dings from wood shafts in a non-destructive way (e.g., no sanding) is very easy and requires very little time. (The method I use is probably the slowest, and even it usually only requires about an hour, the overwhelming majority of that time spent waiting.)
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Stop it. They aren't even in the same category for durability.
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Intentional Double Hit

iusedtoberich
freds said:
....snip.... and if allowed you might as well not play by any rules at all.

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This almost happened to me. About 2005 there was this super strong chess player from Russia that liked playing pool, but stunk real bad. I think his rating was like 2500 or so, we had looked it up at the time. (We would also play chess in the pool hall). I was giving him a huge spot playing a set for 500, maybe the 5 and 7 playing 9 ball, and I was probably a 520 range player then. I had him in a 3 foul situation, where all the balls were surrounding the OB in play. He took his stick and attempted to hit into the surrounding OB's directly to scatter them. I stopped him mid stroke. Said "you can't do that". He says why not. I say "it's like moving a knight straight forward, you just can't do it". He says "there are rules in chess!". I say "there are rules in pool too!" haha. He ended up playing a legal shot.
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Gold Crown 7 Revealed

fastone371
maha said:
for me i dont want a white table i want one that looks more like wood. and do not want writing all around it.

old style tables had just a plate with the manufacturers name. that's enough.

the ball return is great for one pocket. and getting to the balls for any racking game.

if they give an option for some kind of top and side rails to look woody i might give up my old brunswick ventura with lovely 5 inch corner pockets that you can use for all sorts of complicated position for games other than 9 ball which is boring..
for one of these with the 4.75 pockets.
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No white table for me either nor do I want black. The Cherry Oak Dymondwood Diamonds were gorgeous, especially with round instead of mitered corners, the black plastic ones are hideous, if I ever see another satin black table it will be too soon.
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