fastone371 said:

If you put my Ebony cue under bright light you can clearly see the wood grain.

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Frosty said:

Leonardo Andam. A pair of stakehorses brought him into a hall in Northern Virginia looking for action before most knew who he was. Danny Green had carved out a spot there doing cue repair and selling cues. He matched up with Andam playing 10 ahead for $1000. Andam broke and ran 10 racks, it took 28 minutes. Danny looked at me as he was putting his cue in his case. He shrugged and said “I dogged the coin toss”.

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sjm said:

For me, one great shot or one great rack is very impressive, but great cueing must last for a full match, and the bigger the moment in which a player rises to the highest level of cueing, the more impressive the cueing.

When I think of truly great cueing, I always come back to the final of the 2014 US Open 9ball. Dennis Orcullo shot a TPA 1.000 for nearly half the match to put Shane Van Boening, who sought his third consecutive US Open 9ball title, to what may have been the toughest test he had ever faced at the pool table.

The pool played by Shane to rally from behind against an elite player who was in dead stroke for the 13-10 win, thereby securing his third consecutive US Open 9ball title, is the greatest cueing I have ever seen.

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erhino41 said:

I've been playing Jeff's duds for several years now. They are my clear favorite tip ever. I find them to be med/hard but very forgiving. They grip well, but I would not say it is impossible to miscue with them. With poor technique miscues are quite easy to come by with these tips, as with any other.

Ease of maintenance, consistency and longevity are the strongest suites of these tips. The last one I took off after a year just to see if their was a difference in a new one, there wasn't, it felt exactly the same. This was twice weekly play all year long, maybe five or six hours a week of actual play. That's pretty damn good in my book. I have had a Kamui last that long but it was also a flat tire when I finally pulled it off, and it went through the normal cycles of hardness and adjustment. These tips will play pretty much the same throughout their lifespan. If your the type that shapes your tip once or twice and then leaves them alone, these tips may last you a couple of years! The only reason I have to change them is I now shape them regularly and eventually they are too short, at three dollars I'm not really concerned about saving money here. With forty dollar tips I feel compelled to get every last shot out of them, for better or worse.

I strongly recommend these tips to everyone!

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Mensabum said:

Sweat.

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Black-Balled said:

Mark was a fabulous man from the mid Atlantic area, Fredericksburg, VA.

He was a respected maker who appreciated and sought tradition and top quality in cues.

Mark made his own blanks and other makers purchased them for their cues. He was known for the beautiful pieces of wood he used.

Good guy. Our scene is missing a great guy with his passing.

Ill share a pic of a cocobolo Mark Bear cue here later, I think.

Couple other azbros have his cues too.

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MTfish said:

Nice job. I used to like using these, but mine are stock and just too tight for me anymore. Need to do something similar. I'd really love it if I could figure out what to do with the spring jabbing me in the gut every time I reach over a pocket for a shot, though. I wish they made them with the springs bent flat. Worried I might break them trying to do that.

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jjohnson said:

I'd sure like to. What do you mean: "work the shit out like it's the work it is." You mean hit a million balls?

Maybe someone else might also like to offer an explanation?

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Tooler said:

Just curious....Why not 3D print new ends?
Looks like they can be removed.

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Duane Remick said:

I bought and used Triad- gets really too hard to play with, miscues pretty easy
I bought and used the Elk Pro-
Good quality tip...just a little too soft for me

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