Mixed buckshot turned out to be a pretty good formula!
Masters, triangle chalk becoming outdated
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I almost spit out my coffee reading that. Geez that's funny.
Go to live with devil, you have no sense of humor.
Try watching utube archives of Amos and Andy.
If there is a shoe repair shop anywhere near you pick a pair of your shoes and have rubber soles put on them, I think they call them half soles when they don't change out the part under the heel. You will have comfortable shoes ready to go. They have options so find some thin soles.
If you try to play with leather soles particularly on smooth floors, go to the athletic shop and buy a cup! I slipped twice in one night reaching for a shot. Other people thought it was hilarious, I flung a pretty expensive and almost new pair of dress shoes in the garbage can when I got home!
Hu
Why put chalk on breaker? To leave the nickel size powder puff autograph?
xX-Wizard-Xx
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AMEN brother lmao ...
I like chalk with a bit of grit because with proper chalking your tip is groomed each time you chalk up. Being able to play x number of shots between chalking has no value to me since I chalk up before every shot as part of the pre-shot routine. And personally I've never experienced any difference in cue ball action with different chalks.
But I do run out.
You showed your age though with post sir lol
All the angry responses for people saying the chalk is clean,
Amazing.
It's amazing you guys even use the internet
No big deal if you do this. I think most people that do are using a lot more chalk than needed but who cares? Much better to waste a little chalk than to miscue! A lot of my change in the way I chalk is the way I play the game. I deliberately took chalking out of my preshot routine and separated chalking into a separate action when I saw slow motion photography of the chalk cloud when you hit a cue ball.
Another thing, I put new tips and ferrules on 144 cues. Of those cues, I probably put ferrules on over 100. Every one, even the ones that seemed to have tight ferrules until pressure was applied, had chalk between the ferrule and tenon. I don't know if this happens with the harder ferrules typically on a custom shaft or not. Just thinking about it, I bet it happens with the soft plastic vault plates they call ferrules on carbon fiber shafts.
I enjoy watching snooker matches. Most snooker players chalk before every shot but the chalking is on one small area on the tip and very gently. With the cue often indexed I am not sure their chalking is effective but it seems to work for them. I had expected the seldom use of extreme side spin would move from snooker to pool, instead the reverse has happened and snooker players are using extreme spin more often and can zing a cue ball around the table with the best of them!
When it comes to chalking, if you aren't miscuing whatever you are doing is fine. It ain't really a big deal. We really don't have much to talk about sometimes so we give subjects like chalk a going over.
Hu
You are correct in your assessment here. BUT I've have the Taom V-10 chalk!! Just arrived today. Can't wait to try it out tomorrow. What the hell?
Amen. I’m more concerned about the whereabouts of all those Caucasians that used to be in TV commercials.
I think the chalks like that work best with an underlayer of something like Master chalk. If you feel like it, please try it like that for a few hours then really clean the tip the best you can and apply just the V-10. Just idle curiosity on my part. Lost my home table to hurricane Ida along with my home. Just for chuckles when they asked me about losses I listed the pool table. The people at FEMA have no sense of humor! Anyway, no table, no place to play right now, I am restless!
Hu
So sorry for you. I will try what you described here. I was going to wipe off the Masters and then try the V-10, but instead I'll do what you've asked and then report back.
xX-Wizard-Xx
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Anyone try a tacky clear coat on a tip?? No chalk at all ... No marks ... Problem is cue ball starts turning into a fur ball.
Go on
Almost 180 posts, and argueing is alive and well.
I found the V10 stuck and applied better to a good clean tip than it did trying to cover over Masters. That may of been just my experience though.
Most of those who talk trash about V-10 have never used it.
They are mean nasty haters who hate for no reason.
I was lucky someone said try this new Chalk V-10, it was different,it made draw easier, said sold in buying a single piece.
It is OK. I was going to have to make a change before too long anyway. Wish I could squeeze in a pool table though. Thanks for the thoughts!
Thanks! I thought I heard one of the high dollar chalks worked better with an underlayer of Master, maybe mixing grits. I don't remember which one though and I don't think it was V-10.
I suspect the folks at Master are shaking their heads. Had they realized people would pay these prices for chalk they would be getting twenty-five bucks a cube instead of twenty-five cents. In all seriousness, if I was convinced a chalk was better and I needed it I would have paid a hundred a cube for it back in my gambling days.
Hu