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Firefox has a VPN built in lol. I still wouldn't go traipsing through any old site.
The dash rings do look Joss or JW, which was my first thought. But others used those.I was on my way to visit my folks on my motorcycle so I put it on layaway.
I think the weight bolt is an allen with the threading going through the hole.
I feel like I recall this cue being sold locally within the last year stating it was a refinished JW.
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The simple answer is no. U can TLDR the rest.
Players can learn to apply certain ideas or mechanical principles and arrive at their own particular style, but to try to copy the visual appearance of someone else's fully refined technique would be foolish.
This is actually a big problem with THE fundamentals too. People get caught up in the form and getting the look right, but they miss the function and the reason it looks that way. Most people fall inside a fairly narrow range and the prescribed right look will get them at least close to ideal. For some lucky folks, that exactly right look will have them locked in and their stroke dead repeatable and 'on rails'. Others will be just that few degrees off perfect for them and never attain that top level of consistency.
Those greats I mention above have "better" strokes because they are reliable and repeat over and over and can be trusted to do so under great pressure. This goes beyond mere mechanics, tho their mechanics are sound even if they don't match the cookie cutter textbooks. And even the textbooks barely ever touch on efficient force production, which at best is left to the subconscious. At worst, some recommend biceps. Want to guess how many of the 5 greats I listed power their stroke with their biceps? I'd wager a lot on zero.
Thanks for the replyNot sure about the first 100 or so posts (even though I think I have one or two in there), but that last 30 or so is smoochie saying if Eklent Kaci switched to CF he would be the number one player in the world within a year.
QFTI don't want to hear anything about taper wobble or whatever fun phrase they've come up with to describe a crooked shaft nowadays. If it doesn't roll flat or spin smooth on rollers, I don't want it.
Played too many years with junk cues in bars. No Mo.
Picky like that.![]()
Vacuum treatment maybe?Sealers I have dealt with don't penetrate very deep. I consider them a primer for whatever finish you are putting on the shaft. Stabilizers completely saturate the wood.
This is what I have found with products I have used, not the be all end all. Sealers go in from the sides of the shaft, stabilizers go in mostly from the ends traveling through end grain.
I like the esthetics of wood but I have long thought we needed something better for shafts. Gonna have to design cue butts to look better with black shafts but that shouldn't be hard.
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Reminds me of peak reading meters. They stick at the high number and only budge for a higher number.The thing about Fargo, is that you could just quit competing forever, and your Fargo will stay exactly the same as it was the last time you competed, in a Fargo rate tournament.