Chalk... Hate vs Love.....

The Renfro said:
Is Morakami an actual legit brand over there? The only place I was originally seeing their stuff was on ebay and I wasn't sure if they were real or a knockoff since it appears they joined Moori and Kamui to make their name... I assumed and may have assumed wrongly that they were simply a branding company and likely having their products made by others......
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it's just Balabushka chalk rebranded. Just check the looks of Bushka and Morakami chalk, it's even called Morakami Performance. That's the way Joe B is using to get over the manufacturers' pricing policy they try to force. Just give the product other name and tell them gtfo.
 
Vahmurka said:
it's just Balabushka chalk rebranded. Just check the looks of Bushka and Morakami chalk, it's even called Morakami Performance. That's the way Joe B is using to get over the manufacturers' pricing policy they try to force. Just give the product other name and tell them gtfo.
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But it doesn't feel the same as Balabushka to me.
 
I'm a masters guy. I just did a 7 year stint on the camel masters, and now I'm going back to the blue (to match my new cloth). The camel feels drier than the blue. Both were bought at the same time, stored exactly the same, etc... and that light green is different, too.

I'm never going to be paying much for chalk. I could never see going over $1/cube.

I'm not sure chalk makes much difference in the physics involved. Did Dr. Dave ever address this or do any testing?

But for an ideal chalk, I want the following features:

1. Color matches my cloth, whatever that may be (so make a variety of colors)
2. Sticks to tip well, but not the balls. I'd love it if it didn't stick on the balls at all
3. Doesn't make a mess everywhere (balls, cloth, hands, cue, etc)
4. Doesn't roll around
5. Doesn't require any special care (leaving in a moldy basement or oven drying)
6. Cheap, no more than $1/cube


Now, as for the tip between the samsara and phenolic, one already exists. My older Lucasi jump cue (JC2000 model?) has some layered tip that seems as hard as phenolic. I would take the samsara jump/break tip over the super hard leather any day of the week. Getting chalk to stick to that lucasi tip is a nightmare. The samsara on the other hand I can play with.

You may want to call Lucasi and get some of those tips for testing while you're developing your new tip.
 
I was talking with skip nemecek about puting together a tour of their facility, and he was a bit skeptical.... So I asked why. He said he gave some people a tour one time and the next thing you know, one of the visitors went home and started making chalk.

Renfro was that you ?? LoL
 
Mr. Bond said:
I was talking with skip nemecek about puting together a tour of their facility, and he was a bit skeptical.... So I asked why. He said he gave some people a tour one time and the next thing you know, one of the visitors went home and started making chalk.

Renfro was that you ?? LoL
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The idea was suggested by a friend of mine that I should go up and see if I could get a tour of both the chalk and tip production.. But it wasn't me =).. I told him I wanted to develop my own processes and not just try and replicate what someone else was doing.. The chalk is a blend of minerals used in cosmetics... Kamui was the muse.. And I don't want to think about the hours spent doing research even before I placed my first raw material order over 2 years ago..

I would bet that a tour and Skip could have shortened my road but sometimes the trip is as important as the destination... Edison said he learned 1000 ways not to make a lightbulb... Dunno if that is a true quote or not but I understand it regardless =)

btw check your PMs....

Chris
 
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