skor said:

We can see that the tighter the pockets, the most accurate and consistent players have developed a more compact stroke.
Every movement will reduce accuracy. Old school players with big stroke like Bustamante never had a chance as pocket gotten tighter over the years even before the age factor.
Unfortunately, the body mechanics requires that movement.

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Busty beat the crap out of Shane in a couple TAR matches on a tight Diamond....

1998

1997

I got these catalog images from an eBay sale at some point I think.

1996

The traditional way is
1) wrap the end of the ferrule with painter's tape before doing any work on the ferrule
and
2) spin it in the lathe and blow out the black dust with compressed air.
But it sounds like you've already pressed the black dust down into the pores, you don't have a lathe and I'll guess you don't have compressed air. A can of compressed air may or may not have enough pressure.

dendweller said:

Watching a live stream of Raulito and Tommy Medina, must be really clean tables in the Omega action room, haven't seen any table wiping yet.

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beat them at their own games. tommy plays better than last time i saw him play