maha said:

i dont understand why anyone would buy an unknown cheaper cue off the internet without hitting it first.

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For shits and giggles. Idle entertainment.

To investigate them.

Lots of people have knowledge of mainstream customs and big name cues. They comment often on others and are wrong. Not everyone. But frequently.

I like to dig into the obscure and even strange. It has broadened the horizons of what I understand.

Certainly if you don't have the money don't waste it.

Mensabum said:

Where's that bin located Rusty??

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At one of the local storage companies , I was there today to check again to try and find them before the snow flies but sadly I failed they're still lost in there somewhere ha ha .

Paul_#_ said:

Rusty asked why not just get Le Pro instead of the knock-off, ThePro?

Cue Components explained that the Le Pro company (Tweeten) is stuck-up and it hasn't done anything since Grandpa Le Pro invented Le Pro. Le Pro's $1.50 price is too much versus ThePro's $1. If you can tell the difference in play between a Le Pro (one that's good, anyway) and ThePro? Cue Components will eat your returned ThePro with a glass of milk.

From Cue Components:

Tweeten Fibre Company (manufacturers of the LePro Cue Tip) is a very difficult company to work with, sort of stuck up and for no good reason. They believe they have a niche market with a few products. Quite frankly, they have never done anything since "grandpa" invented their company & products.​

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With Tweeten's quest for arrogance, we decided to manufacture a competing product and sell them for a much more realistic price! Introducing, our all new ThePro™ Cue Tips. If you can tell the difference in play (when you get a good LePro), send them back and we'll eat them with a glass of milk!​

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Well Paul_#_ , I'm a grandpa as well and so I remember using Le Pro tips back in the proverbial day as did George Frank the owner of Corner Pocket's of America and Frank McGowan so I figured if they're good enough for those two they are good enough for me .

I've got a Le Pro tip on my break cue and I can honestly say I don't have a problem with it , it hits a ball very well , and puts the english on the cue ball I expect from it .
Normally I make balls on the break or rattle the pocket rather hard and even a few 8 balls on the break from time to time .

a different bunch of players. but maybe they will evolve somewhat. if not if they are having fun and keeping the pool rooms in business.

more power to them as that is what we need.

Washed albin ouschan in the final 4

HawaiianEye said:

I wonder who has shot and missed a million balls.

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There were shots I missed and shots where I didn't pocket a ball. Not always the same thing. I suspect I have shot a million shots without pocketing a ball. I'm unconvinced I have missed a million balls. When a shot gives me exactly the result I intended it is hard to call it a miss.

Mensabum said:

I have to agree. And you bring up an excellent point bro. Chess. In many of the places I've hit over the years, a chessboard wasn't far out of view, no more so than the deck of cards or dice. If you've been around this game for more than a minute or two, you know that we will play just about any game for a sawbuck or three.

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Another thing about chess, you see patterns, multiple possibilities, very fast. I think that directly translates into pattern play. One of the things Efren is credited with is seeing possibilities that others don't. I suspect he has considered 3-5 possibilities in the time it takes him to give the back of his head a quick rub!

No way to test it with no formal education but I suspect Efren's IQ is somewhere between high and extremely high. Having focused this intensely on pool for so long without wasting some of his best learning years in school learning reading and 'riting and 'rithmatic, he understands the way balls behave on a pool table perhaps better than anyone in the world.

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I don't like them at all. The diffusers they use are not like the egg crate style that Diamond, Littman, Brunswick, and more traditional pool lights use. So when you look up, or even from the side, they hurt my eyes.

Lots of players seem to like them though.

b3p said:

Might I ask what tool(s) you use to keep the tip scuffed? I shape with a dime willard's and scuff with forceful small scraping motions using a tap tool

I also mostly play with a green recoil. I've been trying to find similarly designed polymer playing tips (not breaking/jump) from other manufacturers with no luck. I didnt like the rhino time crystal tip (tried one of the harder variants)

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Believe it or not the best tool I've found for the Bulletproof Recoil hard tip is the Sandman shaper, if you just let the weight of the tool, which isn't much by the way, run over the tip starting from the edge of the tip to the center of the tip while spinning the tip for 30 to 45 seconds that tip will hold chalk like a beast, I posted some pics in another thread " Bulletproof Recoil tip 7 months later" , I was concerned the tool might take off too much but you can't even measure it, my tip looks and more importantly play like the day it was installed, I expect this tip to last at least a year and half if not longer, the thing I care the most about is the way it plays, just works for me.