pool has changed

People love to watch westerns. The old west actually lasted a little more than from the end of the civil war to the turn of the century. And came the automobile in a few more years people would be flying in planes.


I see a little bit of a parallel in the pool world to the Old West. While pool had been around for many years I think that the availability of the automobile it put pool players on wheels and a new era was born.


I think this era may have existed from around the 1920s to maybe the 1980s. Within that era and time frame existed a host of characters. Famous, infamous and many little known except in the subculture of pool.


It's easy to romanticize the past as with the Old West and in my case pool. It really was a different time in pool though from today and I feel glad to have had a chance to at least glimpse a small piece of it.

Help with ferrule material

You presume to know why I did what I did that so many others on this forum stated couldn’t be done.
I reached out to a lot of cue makers that said they couldn’t build what I wanted. All it took was finding
like minded cue makers that were capable of building what others said couldn’t be done. So it took me
longer to get a KW shaft instead of just buying one that would have been too light for my cue butts.

I’m really very happy with my Kielwood shafts and others I referred have done the same as I did. No one
has expressed displeasure over getting a heavier version un-cored heavier KW shaft built, certainly not me.

I never disregarded the opinion of cue makers I hold in high regard. Every one of them, along with the better
names in cue making, build their cues as I’ve been preaching about for almost two decades. They happen to
have a long wait list and this is just a shaft when they’re busy with building custom cues. My Kielwood shafts
are the same weight & diameter as my cue’s orig. maple shafts so I followed the opinion of my cue makers.

As far as KW shafts, I also followed the opinions of cue makers. I found several that not only talk the walk but
walk the talk. They can make Kielwood shafts heavier than what other cue makers and many forum members
said wasn’t buildable. So I although I did not follow the advice of the cue makers I used to build my Kielwood
shaft, they agreed with why I wanted a heavier KW shaft built in contrast with others that tried mocking me.

All I know is what I know….there are 4 gorgeous Kielwood shafts in my case that play better than my original
maple shafts including my Tim Scruggs and Prewitt cues. To me, that says a mouthful because those are two
really top names in cue making. If I listened the opinion of others, I’d have saved some money playing with the
original maple shafts. Buying shafts is not like the cost of buying cues so the KW shaft cost seems insignificant.
I'm happy that you're happy with the KW shafts you currently have, but I'm pretty certain that not one of them said it *couldnt* be done, just that it's not easy to find a blank heavy enough to start with.

Fat taper and heavy ferrule can help 🙂. I also prefer my shafts around 4oz, helps to keep the balance in check.

Benefits of Bridging at the EFFECTIVE PIVOT LENGTH of a Shaft

Nearly all that Dr Dave posts, and many of your posts as well, interest me because you're looking at the game we all love from a different perspective and in a tangible manner.

The issue that I have comes from all the bickering about it and low skill level players talking about how to make a ball using these methods, but can't actually pocket it. It's a fun topic to discuss, but not necessarily practical to apply certain principals directly in real play. There's too much variation in real life, we are not robots.
I use SAWS (which uses combinations of BHE and FHE based on shot speed and distance), and it is very effective for me. I am certainly more effective than I was when trying to aim sidespin shots by feel or intuition.

Does anyone here know any history about MAJESTICA Pool cues, from Japan?

This brand has really interested me for a long time, because it is just very mysterious, and there is no info to be found about it online, other then what is told by the sellers who have offered these cues up for sale, from time to time, and they do seem to be fairly rare.

So, here what has been said about MAJESTICA cues, and I have no idea if it is even true, because it really makes no sense.

Sellers from Japan have always said (when offering these cues) that they were made by the Miki cue company, before Miki started building Mezz cues.

That makes no sense to me though, because I was always under the impression that Miki went from building Adam cues in the mid 90's, right to making Mezz cues, as soon as their contract ended with Adam cues, in the mid 90's.

So, if Miki did build these cues, then they would have probably only been made for a very short time, sometime in the mid 90's, after they no longer made cues for Adam, and before they started Mezz cues.

Does anyone here happen to know what the price range was for these MAJESTICA cues?

Another thought was that maybe the MAJISTICA cues were like the Exceed cues of the mid to late 90's, or up until whenever they started the Exceed line, but I know that is a far fetched possibility.

I do think they look far nicer then the Mezz cues of the 90's though, and the designs were just very different then Mezz.

Anyways, some of them are pretty nice, like this one for example.

Thanks for any thoughts, if you happen to know any info about these cues.
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