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Pool fads?
- Thread starter Straightpool_99
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Earl came up with these to make it easier to jump balls with his playing cue. This was back in the day Earl refused to use a jump cue and shamed everyone who did. None the less he was giving up a big edge to opponents who used a jump cue. He had kind of made his bed on the issue so he wasn`t about to start using one. so, necessity being the mother of invention, Earl gave us the finger sticks.
ohh man. that brings me back.
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i can see the logic in wearing an apron. i always play in dark or blue pants and seldom a t-shirt i care about, but if i didn't and the place was dirty/chalky i'm the kind of guy who would wear an apron. it makes sense
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Well they do good sponsor work.
Their gator grip is an excellent tool. I'd guess their chalk holders and bridge heads are just as good.
Their tips, especially the black variety aren't great, or at least they didn't used to be. Glazed over stupid fast. The clear tips do nothing other than make it more annoying for installers. People like the clear pad but I won't touch them. 2 installations were enough for me. It's a pain to trim them, even with a low end drill based lathe. I'd hate to see someone try to do so by hand.
Their gloves are junk, get tears after 3-4 weeks of serious use. A $2.50 Scott Edward glove lasts as long (maybe more durable) and works just as good. A 10 pack is $25, wear a new glove each week if you want, still much cheaper. Kamui is like Nike, a brand for those who like to wear brand advertisements around. I'm not hating on them for that, it's good marketing and a lot of people like that kind of thing.
Their original chalk worked well but was the most dirty chalk ever as far as the cueball was concerned. It basically tattooed itself into the surface. Their newer chalk... it might be good but I'll pass. I mean, I'd try it but see no point after going to V10.
The worst thing about Kamui was they normalized chalk and tips costing $30. I'm not super cheap when it comes to pool stuff, but $30 for a tip is pretty silly. That said I use a $30 Zan GripHard, but still stand by my opinion that $30 for a tip is silly. I promise I'm not cheap about pool stuff, it's just a little stack of leather and some adhesive should cost nowhere near $30. In the long run $30 isn't bad but they got the ball rolling on that, a good tip could be $15 and still be profitable.
I'm completely with you here. I used to use a Tiger Onyx... they were $12. Then, OVERNIGHT, they went to $25. That put a rip in my underwear! I cannot stand MAP pricing. Never bought another one. Now use Moori Hard. Great tip for the $12 dollar range.
This is as good a place as any to say it....
F*CK YOU TIGER!
You start off like straight pool but instead of leaving balls made in the pocket you take them up after a shooter misses and line up the balls behind behind the head spot. In other words all 15 balls are back on the table. You play for a specific score Such as 50, 75, 100 and so on. Each pocketed ball counts one point.
The 3C players still wear them.
There was one old guy at Hollywood billiards back in 2010 who used to come play often in the afternoons-he was in his mid 80’s. I should know his name but I don’r recall it right now.
He always put a apron on, it was a super old one he had forever. Pretty cool.
I wore one in 86-91 when I’d have white pants on or good cloths. I didn’t wear it that often as I usually wore a track suit and tee shirt to play in. So wasn’t important.
They look sharp imo
Best
Fatboy <———prefers to play barefoot
tomatoshooter
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I know what you mean, a lot of pool stuff seems like it should be much less expensive. To be fair, if you are expecting to break into a small market and you are expecting a fraction of that market, you have to be overpriced to have any revenue. And if you get $30 worth of joy from playing with that tip, 4-5 beers worth or a dinner in a modest restaurant, you have gotten your money's worth. It also lets tip guys make some money on the markup. Still, it's like 30 cents worth of leather. Is that tip worth 1/6th as much as a car tire? Tires last years, my Kamui tip lasted 4 months.
Just thought of another one....
Wasn't there a pool cue tip that were made out of a Superball material?
Wasn't there a pool cue tip that were made out of a Superball material?
"I'll be back in a minute.....just goin' out for a tune-up".
In Cambridge, MD, where it was also a dime a game, the winner would always cry out to the house man, "House, come get this mouse!"
And at the Duke Sports Shop in Durham, NC, the house man was a one armed guy named Jules, who never said a word and looked like a dead ringer for Nikita Khrushchev.
I seen pictures on Facebook of a recent tournament where they were allowed up on the table. There was pictures of them right up on the middle of the table playing shots