Reed Foley said:

It certainly is much easier than kicking your way out.

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I don’t find that true at all. If you take time to learn the systems kicking is pretty easy. Now kicking with pro accuracy takes work . The same with jumping. It’s not hard to learn to jump but jumping to be accurate takes a lot of practice just like anything in pool

Monti said:

Slightly off track but Karl did a review of the propel and the air rush. At the end he put the short extension of the propel directly on the shaft. Would that be legal I’m guessing probably too short?

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Nope it’s legal.. all jump cues were that short at one time. The propel and air rush are actually really long for jump cues in comparison to what they were.

Gilbertfan81 said:

What type is the LD shaft?

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Whatever Eric uses

Zerksies said:

I used LePro for years, The issue with them is they are completely inconsistent

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I used them on my break cue for years.

Jedco said:

Not a question so much as a suggestion. I would LOVE for Accu-Stats to have their video library digitally upscaled to modern resolutions. It would be wonderful to watch all the old matches again with the benefit of digital upscaling technology, which is really quite remarkable. I know the pool world is small and it's nearly impossible to amortize any significant expense, but I'd totally be willing to pay up!

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It sounds you like many others are not yet aware that our very own Mike Howerton of AzBilliards is now the owner of Accu-Stats. Pat sold it to him in 2022.

I don't know if trying to upscale the videos to a higher resolution before uploading would slow down the process much or not (or how much improvement could really be done because the upscale "magic" only goes so far and can often have pretty disappointing results in my experience), but right now I really like and appreciate the rate at which Mike is getting all these matches digitized and uploaded to Youtube.

David in FL said:

^^^ This ^^^...


...and ^^^ This ^^^



In my experience, those who want to ban jump cues are those who cannot jump...

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It certainly is much easier than kicking your way out.

Stew boo said:

I might be interested in the 2nd one to the left, lmk if you're wanting to sell it

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Sorry ,The Sly is not for sale, in fact only the 1 st cue the LEONARD BLUDWORTH is …

George the Greek said:

I ordered 10 Elkmasters from Amazon for the rack cues at home and out of necessity I put one on my Chinese playing cue. I haven't seen the local cue guy in a while and still waiting for a shaft to be made. My playing cue needs a new ferrule/tip and a new butt cap. I'm surprised how well the Elkmaster is playing and holding up and getting better the more I use it.

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I have an old box of 12mms from Atlas and those pop right on as is. The new 20 for 50 boxes at Amazon aren't that bad. They aren't all circular but with the gel glue stiffening they can be shaped and dressed like hard leather. Works on anything too soft to do manually.

hang-the-9 said:

Hold on! Are you near Dearborn? I am in Detroit for the rest of the week.

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Battery Show - Huntington Place. Ends this afternoon .

That Early Sly won’t last long , great playing cues

straightline said:

Elkmaster slathered with SG gel. Same thing that glues tips on. Shapes easily - even with scuffers. If it frizzes, slather more glue. Burnish with a spoon between coats. Soaks and dries real quick.

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I ordered 10 Elkmasters from Amazon for the rack cues at home and out of necessity I put one on my Chinese playing cue. I haven't seen the local cue guy in a while and still waiting for a shaft to be made. My playing cue needs a new ferrule/tip and a new butt cap. I'm surprised how well the Elkmaster is playing and holding up and getting better the more I use it.

I knew some great players that loved action on the little table with the big rock in my formative years. Personally, as tempting as the action was, I wasn’t a fan of that niche circus game equipment.

AtLarge said:

Well, the tournament is underway, with the first round (the non-seeded players) almost completed now. The round with those winners plus the 32 seeded players starts in about 2 hours.

[SVB won his first match.]

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SVB is not bad at 8b.

Mensabum said:

Why would you want turkey hair??
Do turkeys have hair?? How do they fly??

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Per an old WKRP in Cincinnati episode, they fly like a brick.

hello said:

How well does the Balabushka play in comparison with the other cues of your fine collection..?

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There are two in the collection. I can't really say how well they play. I have shot only a few games each on them. From those limited number of about a dozen games, I would say the Balabushkas a little better than my Tascarellas especially the Lisciotti Balabushka vs the Green Ebony Tascarella. I prefer my TADs over the Balabushkas and Tascarellas for the hit. I prefer my Gus Szamboti blank Willie Mosconi "Balabushka" copy to all of them.

Here is my Gus Szamboti blank Mosconi "Balabushka" homage. Right cue. It feels like a TAD but plays like a Tascarella next to it. Very crisp. The Balabushkas butts play exactly the same with the same shafts shared with the "Gus" but the "Gus" slams the balls into the pockets. The Burton Spain blank Balabushkas feel just as stiff and gives the same amount of feel, but the hit removes quarter of the shock of the contact with the cueball or is it the ping? I can feel how hard I made contact with the cue and the weight of the cueball and generally how fast the cueball left the cue tip. It just feels like something is removed/refined from the hit. Ferrari vs Lamborghini? Or Rolls Royce vs Bentley?



This is the real Balabushka



Tads on left, Burton Spain Balabushkas on right.



The Gus/Mosconi is the cue I play all my serious games with. It's heavy 21Oz. Very thick handle like a Willie Hoppi. Balanced far back by at least 1.5 inches to other cues I have. Paired with 30 inch 12.8mm Tascarella shaft, it's the best player. Easy to move balls, power to breakout, lots of feel, clear crisp hit and pings.

The Old Jaybird said:

back in my slot car racing days, I did this with my DiFalco and Third Eye controllers.

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Ive got a dust collector ( slotcar box) sitting in my garage. Those were fun times and I was the king on a King setting multiple track records in 16D, balanced 16D, grp 12 wing, GTP 12. We had some pretty serious guys racing Grp 27 and Eurosport

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Unplayed new

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Andy cloth is excellent.

I have a Schon Runde R Series…….Something?

Bob and I discussed building a pool cue at the BCA Inaugural Trade Show.
Back at that time, there was only the R Series. Schon was in business a
couple of years. I told Bob I wanted something different with large inlays,
larger than anything he had on display or was in the Schon cue literature.

This is the notorious cue that made Bob swear off building a cue to the customer’s
design specs. I really pissed him off when I criticized the cue he built as not being
what we had discussed and I rejected it. We went back and forth and he offered me
a refund. I told him I had waited a long time with nothing to show for it and I could
have ordered a Joss West, Richard Black, TAD, Scruggs cue. Pool cues hadn’t yet
commanded thousands in 1984. And I was paying almost $900 for a Schon cue.

So I reacted like a jerk and we never got to the point of being nasty or anything like
that. Bob asked me what I wanted to do. My reaction was just build the cue like we
discussed at the Trade Show. I explained what to change like darker red veneers,
jumbo ivory points and really large ivory bars in the sleeve. He agreed to build it again
but said come hell or high water, this would be his last attempt to build what I wanted.

Mr. Runde built exactly what we discussed and I was very pleased. He was gracious the
entire time whilst I was being picayune in my criticism and my behavior was inappropriate.

Years later we came to laugh about this but I knew I had upset him. Somewhere there is a
clone of this cue, assuming the cue hasn’t been lost or destroyed, with brighter red veneers,
typical size spears & much thinner ivory bars in the sleeve. It’s the Corsican Brother to my cue.