Best cue ball ever

Patrick Johnson said:
Speaking of which...

I like red circles better - they seem to collect less chalk than blue circles. Anybody else notice this?

pj
chgo
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Yes, I noted that problem as well in an earlier response to this thread. Red circles tend to stay the cleanest of the 4 major premium cue balls, with blue circles ranking last in staying clean, in my opinion. - Red Circle, Aramith Logo, Aramith Pro Cup (measle) and Brunswick Blue Circle, in that order.
 
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ChrisinNC said:
I love it as well, but the downside I've experienced - it has a tendency to dirty up with chalk marks quicker / worse than about any cue ball I've ever seen.
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I had this same experience this past Monday night in my home pool hall. I was using Predator blue chalk and was wiping the ball down between every rack.

Maniac
 
Maniac said:
I had this same experience this past Monday night in my home pool hall. I was using Predator blue chalk and was wiping the ball down between every rack.

Maniac
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Thanks for the info, y'all. It's been decades since I used a blue circle, and so I have no recollection of to what you're referring. If I find that to be the case ( I ordered one from Brunswick a few hours ago ), I'll just chalk it up ( and, yeah, of course... pun intended ) to being one of the vagaries of using the blue circle.

Thanks again! :smile:
 
When I was a kid....the color codes actually meant something...
Blue dot was the straight pool player’s ball....good for breaking the pack.
Red dot was the nine ball player’s ball....drew much easier
Green dot was also known as the Macon Fast-draw...substantially lighter.

In my experience, once they went to the circles...red or blue made no difference....
....they’ve been weighed and found to be identical when new.

The measles ball plays alright, but doesn’t wear well...the measle part wears at a different
rate....I know Mark Griffin had a bag full that Aramith didn’t want to talk about...
..there was a video on UTube a few years ago that showed a measle 3-cushion ball
settling on a flat spot.....it was pulled...:rolleyes:

For myself, I much prefer the red circle that comes with a Diamond smart table....
....stays white and clean longer than any other ball I’ve used.
 
pt109 said:
When I was a kid....the color codes actually meant something...
Blue dot was the straight pool player’s ball....good for breaking the pack.
Red dot was the nine ball player’s ball....drew much easier
Green dot was also known as the Macon Fast-draw...substantially lighter.

In my experience, once they went to the circles...red or blue made no difference....
....they’ve been weighed and found to be identical when new.

The measles ball plays alright, but doesn’t wear well...the measle part wears at a different
rate....I know Mark Griffin had a bag full that Aramith didn’t want to talk about...
..there was a video on UTube a few years ago that showed a measle 3-cushion ball
settling on a flat spot.....it was pulled...:rolleyes:

For myself, I much prefer the red circle that comes with a Diamond smart table....
....stays white and clean longer than any other ball I’ve used.
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I've been using the Aramith red circle for a loonggggggggg time now. I'll be interested to see how the blue circle I just ordered from Brunswick plays, now that I'm all ( well... mostly ) grown up.
 
ctyhntr said:
I was told Centennials were produced under contract for Brunswick using the same resin formula as Super Pro. Measle from Super Pro should play the same.
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Correct, for modern Aramith, same resin as Super Pro. However, Albany Ball Company made the Centennial set for Brunswick long before Aramith in Belgium. The closest old resin from Albany would probably be the Vitalite.

All the best,
WW
 

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pt109 said:
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For myself, I much prefer the red circle that comes with a Diamond smart table....
....stays white and clean longer than any other ball I’ve used.
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That is most likely the Cyclop ball.

I really don't like the milky white coating it has on it, makes is weird to look at when aiming for me.

I find that any of the top tier sets play well, issue comes when you start to mix and match cueball models to the rest of the set. The top cueballs work out OK when mixed, so the measels ball, the standard Aramith Pro ball and the Centenial blue circle play pretty much the same. At one Joss event I played in at Snookers they used Centennial balls but brought in some other cueball. All I heard and experienced was about issues with it. It was heavier and newer than the rest of the set, so followed more. To play a stop shot you needed to hit with a bit of draw, and stun shots ended up pushing forward more. In an event where you have high level players, the few times that cueball messed up your position can cost you the match. By the time you figured out how to play with it, and fought against years of muscle memory, it was too late.
 
Michael Andros said:
Thanks for the info, y'all. It's been decades since I used a blue circle, and so I have no recollection of to what you're referring. If I find that to be the case ( I ordered one from Brunswick a few hours ago ), I'll just chalk it up ( and, yeah, of course... pun intended ) to being one of the vagaries of using the blue circle.

Thanks again! :smile:
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I wasn't necessarily saying the cue ball caused the chalk build-up problem...it could have been the chalk. My experiences I had with Kamui chalk (with ANY cue ball) was similar. But nevertheless, the blue circle ball I used Monday night had a lot more chalk retention than any ball I've ever used NOT using Kamui chalk.

Maniac
 
WildWing said:
That's way too thin a line on that blue circle. Here's how it should look.

All the best,
WW
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WW - Well, that's odd. I Googled "blue circle" under "images" and that's one of the clearest images that came up ( s'why I posted it ). So someone other than Brunswick / Aramith must've made a blue circle?
 
Maniac said:
I wasn't necessarily saying the cue ball caused the chalk build-up problem...it could have been the chalk. My experiences I had with Kamui chalk (with ANY cue ball) was similar. But nevertheless, the blue circle ball I used Monday night had a lot more chalk retention than any ball I've ever used NOT using Kamui chalk.

Maniac
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Understandable and thnx for the clarification. The reason I said "Y'all" was ChrisinNC earlier in the thread said the exact same thing as you. So maybe it *is* the ball. Or, as you just now said, the chalk itself. S'ok, it is what it is and I'll deal with it accordingly.
 
Michael Andros said:
WW - Well, that's odd. I Googled "blue circle" under "images" and that's one of the clearest images that came up ( s'why I posted it ). So someone other than Brunswick / Aramith must've made a blue circle?
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Try Chinese imitation. Obviously not a real Blue Circle cue ball.

All the best,
WW
 
Michael Andros said:
Makes perfect sense... but, in the same breath, so you're saying the brand new Gibson Les Paul I bought for 300.00 might be Chinese as well??? :eek:
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No idea about your Gibson. You do your research, and you make your decision. Whether you make it rightly or wrongly is up to you.

All the best,
WW
 
PoolBum said:
Buddy Hall had the best cueball ever.
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Watched him play countless times ( he lived in Tampa for years off and on ) but never paid much attention to his cue ball. What was it?

I know he had/has the best control of one ever! :grin:
 
So... I ordered what I am hoping will be a blue circle from Brunswick today. There is no specific image
of the cue ball they're selling but it is from the Centennial set and the "promo" image they're using to promote the sale has what appears to be a blue circle but the image is not particularly clear. I Googled Brunswick Blue Circle Cue Ball and they're practically non-existent. The very few places that listed them showed "sold" and more than a few blurbs had verbiage such as "Almost impossible to find.", etc, etc...

Any opinions as to whether or not, when it comes, I am going to be looking at an actual blue circle? Or will Brunswick be sending me something else. Here is the page at Brunswick from which I ordered today:

https://www.brunswickbilliards.com/...e-accessories/centennial-pocket-balls-premium
 
ChrisinNC said:
Yes, I noted that problem as well in an earlier response to this thread. Red circles tend to stay the cleanest of the 4 major premium cue balls, with blue circles ranking last in staying clean, in my opinion. - Red Circle, Aramith Logo, Aramith Pro Cup (measle) and Brunswick Blue Circle, in that order.
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I think my measles ball is somewhere in the middle too - more chalk than a red circle, less than a blue circle.

pj
chgo
 
Michael Andros said:
So... I ordered what I am hoping will be a blue circle from Brunswick today. There is no specific image
of the cue ball they're selling but it is from the Centennial set and the "promo" image they're using to promote the sale has what appears to be a blue circle but the image is not particularly clear. I Googled Brunswick Blue Circle Cue Ball and they're practically non-existent. The very few places that listed them showed "sold" and more than a few blurbs had verbiage such as "Almost impossible to find.", etc, etc...

Any opinions as to whether or not, when it comes, I am going to be looking at an actual blue circle? Or will Brunswick be sending me something else. Here is the page at Brunswick from which I ordered today:

https://www.brunswickbilliards.com/...e-accessories/centennial-pocket-balls-premium
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If you ordered it off the Brunswick website, and it cost you $36 or whatever, plus shipping, I think you can be confident that it is the same blue circle cue ball that comes with the Centennials, and not a knock off.
 
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