The first time ever.

A friend who used to be a pretty good undercover money player got old and decided to try his hand at a seniors tournament.
He was a little nervous pre game and asked another friend of ours to dress up the tip on his cue.
The friend is also a bit of a nervous type, but was more than happy to help out an old buddy.
He was sitting behind the players arena where our friend and his opponent {Claude Bernatchez} had placed their equipment.
Claude had moseyed off for some reason.
Our friend is working away at the tip getting it rounded off and dressed up when Claude walks back to the area and asks him wth he is doing to his cue?
OOOps, I don't think Claude believed it was an honest mistake.
The look on his face was priceless!
My friend might never miss a ball for money, but in a tournament he was dead money lol.
 
chuck you beat me to it,because a buddy of mine had that happen and didnt think a thing about it until the next week he pulled his sticks out for league night and they were swelled up and looked aweful. So it can happen,if its sitting next to someones drink and they spill it not knowing it happened to go into the open case.
 
Lucky_Lew66 said:
chuck you beat me to it,because a buddy of mine had that happen and didnt think a thing about it until the next week he pulled his sticks out for league night and they were swelled up and looked aweful. So it can happen,if its sitting next to someones drink and they spill it not knowing it happened to go into the open case.
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Bingo! People like to overthink a lot of stuff but sometimes the answer is simply.....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tCIRJH9p0
Chuck
 
When I cut a tip, I dip a finger in a container of water and wet the tip. I cut it. I might use
more than one application of water to do it.

I use 400 Silicon Carbide Wet and Dry paper with liberal amounts of water to finish it off and make it look pretty.

I use water to buff it with a paper towel and leather.

I could give it to a person and they could start playing with it immediately.

Pretty weird. Besides, I thought that Kamui tips were advertised as water proof, or more water resistant than other tips.

Tips down in a case and someone purposely fills up the tubes with water to sabotage him. Soaking for a long period of time is about the only thing that
could really do it as described.

Other than that, I would go with the Alien Theory.
 
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JoeyA said:
Ok, this isn't about doing the wild thing.

This story is about cue tips suddenly and mysteriously being found by a professional player to be literally soaked with moisture.

Brandon Shuff found his playing shaft's tips so soaked with water that he was forced to borrow someone else's cue in order to finish the tournament, in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

No one knows how this occurred for sure. Theories are many. What's yours?
Sabotage, environment? What specifically? You know they had to be totally SOAKED in order for Shuff to have to borrow a cue.

JoeyA
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Is it possible he put against a wet wall' or I have seen plyers clean the tip when they are done by sticking the shaft end into carpet which could be wet
 
Dopc said:
I have no clue what truly happen, but my theory is condensation buildup.Possibly the tips acted as a Desiccant and absorbed the moist air within the case when closed and moved to a cooler climate. I'm no CSI investigator so I don't have the "Enhance" multiple times feature. Still very odd and I can see what would lead one to think something malicious took place.

Dopc.
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Tap, Tap, Tap.

John
 
The humidity levels in Louisiana are generally quite high. If he placed his cue near an Air Conditioning vent or unit for an extended period of time the difference in temperature might have drawn moisture from the air.....like humidity condensing upon a cold glass of water. Since the leather is like a sponge, it would retain the water but the shaft, likely having a light wax coating would not retain any moisture.
 
It was aberrant starlight from Venus refracted off an imperceptible layer of swamp gas which caused this "perceived" moisture on the cue tip. Even if it was experienced by more than one, because mass hysteria yo. Go about your business people, nothing to see here.

Just stare into this pretty light for a second for me.
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Regards,

Lesh
 
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Dopc said:
I have no clue what truly happen, but my theory is condensation buildup.Possibly the tips acted as a Desiccant and absorbed the moist air within the case when closed and moved to a cooler climate. I'm no CSI investigator so I don't have the "Enhance" multiple times feature. Still very odd and I can see what would lead one to think something malicious took place.

Dopc.
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CSI have investigators? They really are taking over the pool world..
 
water!

Chuck Fields said:
Anybody check to see if something got spilled in his case?
Chuck
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Couple decades ago, I had a guy stuck a couple hundred at 20 a rack, when he "accidentally" spilled a glass of water into my open cue case. Definitely took me out of my game.

I've never left my cue case standing open since. I was glad though, that it was just water and my cue was in my hand at the time.

I have seen low level hustlers moisten the chalk and even an opponents tip when he stepped away from the table for a few moments...
 
Dopc said:
I guess the story is Bigtruck had some Rubbing Alcohol spill and it saturated the case. I would have never guessed that one.

Dopc.

Edit: Dyhydrogenmonooxide?
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BigTruck finally broke the story LIVE on his broadcast from CueSports in Thibodaux, LA. It is an unusual one for sure but I haven't talked to him just yet so I am not sure if it is just a theory or a fact about spilling the rubbing alcohol into Brandon's cue case.

Brandon and BigTruck are road dawgs and are traveling from New Orleans to New Town North Dakota and are on the road today. It's an incredibly long trip for the two of them. Wish them safe travel and if all that needs to be done is to change out the tips, then all will be good.

The Four Bears Casino Event is a GREAT ONE, held by, promoted by Ray Poitra and the tribal members of that area. There are three or four tribes that are represented. Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan are three of the the tribes but I can't remember the fourth for some reason. The story behind the multiple tribes in this area is an interesting one but sad one at the same time. The U.S. Government is as usual, the scoundrel. The native Americans in this area TRULY love pool and show it each and every year with one of America's BEST POOL EVENTS.


JoeyA
 
Lesh said:
It was aberrant starlight from Venus refracted off an imperceptible layer of swamp gas which caused this "perceived" moisture on the cue tip. Even if it was experienced by more than one, because mass hysteria yo. Go about your business people, nothing to see here.

Just stare into this pretty light for a second for me.
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Regards,

Lesh
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Hahaha. I like the swamp gas reference!

JoeyA
 
My guess is he just flew in from somewhere and his cue got cold from the plane possibly frozen and then went to pool room where it thawed and leather tip absorbed the water. This would not be an issue if you could bring your cue on the plane instead of packed.

My golf clubs were soaked the other day when I arrived in New Orleans.
 
metallicane said:
My guess is he just flew in from somewhere and his cue got cold from the plane possibly frozen and then went to pool room where it thawed and leather tip absorbed the water. This would not be an issue if you could bring your cue on the plane instead of packed.

My golf clubs were soaked the other day when I arrived in New Orleans.
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I've flown with my cues about 20 times...NEVER been an issue. My guess is someone either spilled a drink on/near his case or was screwing with him. I've also played with Kamui tips for a couple of years in different conditions, never saw any moisture in the tips. Something screwy going on here...Funny thing, I've been in a great many tournaments with Brandon, never saw him leave his cues or case out of arm's reach.
 
When making Milk Dud tips with Elk Masters, it takes several hours of immersion in milk before the tips will absorb enuff moisture to make them expand.

Of course, the one piece leather and an Elk Master is considerably more porous than most other tips. Still, it takes several hours of soaking.
In other words, I doubt that you would see them move in even just one hour. And that is total immersion in a liquid.

I can't think of any repairman that wouldn't burnish a tip as the last step in an install.

Some may add a leather type of liquid to aid in the burnishing process. Of course, even if the tip is somewhat sealed from the burnishing, it can wear off in short order.

Definitely one of those posers tho. Some member had posted a thread where he had removed his cue from his case and the wrap was totally soaked.
 
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