Have You Wondered About Pool Chalks?

Bavafongoul

Bavafongoul

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Pool chalks are coming out of the wood works or so it seems. I thought TAOM was the cat’s meow for chalks and then Pagulayan works a deal with TAOM to introduce a cube version under his name. Boy, I thought that was a brilliant idea and it weighed 1 gram heavier than V10 so the value was equivalent. Now I am starting to wonder about other pool chalks, especially after trying Ghost chalk. Fedorgorst has his own brand of chalk and I was favorably impressed with its presentation, appearance and how it applies and plays. It sure looks and plays like TAOM but can’t be since it is made in America, I don’t know how you feel and despite that Finland is our NATO ally, I still prefer to buy USA.

So after trying the chalk, it absolutely feels better in my grip and it weighs more than other chalks costing every bit as much. Now I am pissed over shrinkage of products in America like food. The bag and contents keep shrinking but the price keeps going up. So I resent being ripped off. Manufacturers can’t raise the price the as high as they want it to be so they bump the price and shrink the contents.

Ghost chalk made me aware of this and now I’m irritated with myself for never realizing this before. So I am simply offering a public service thread. If you like the chalk, and indeed it costs more but gives you more product than other equivalent brands, isn’t it worth considering? Fedorgorst’s chalk has a fantastic shape to grip and it feels more substantial too. It applies great and how long it lasts is yet to be decided. Ghost chalk weighs 24.1 grams…..Wow.
 

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garczar said:
Seriously???? You went thru all this to weigh some chalk???? Are you high or just in dire need of a life??
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When you heft the weight of Ghost Chalk versus all the other brands, it is just heavier.

The effort required to do this was to retrieve a chalk box & I have scale in my pool case.
It’s in my case so I could weigh a shaft or cue butt & digital calipers are in my car’s trunk.

Just an observation but Ghost chalk costs as much as Pagulayan but has 45% more chalk.
I think that suggests it is going to last longer and the higher price is easily more justifiable.

This thread will have minimal interest to the majority of pool players that misapply chalk to
their cue’s tip, don’t care what chalk brand they use or the chalk mess some brands create.

But if you want a pool chalk that just feels better in your hand, offers a lot more value and
performs equivalent to what you now might play, Ghost chalk is certainly worth considering.

Garczar, although you have no interest, facts create knowledge and what I posted has never
been brought up as a mere observation I can recall. But it definitely has economic inferences.
 

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Bavafongoul said:
Pool chalks are coming out of the wood works or so it seems. I thought TAOM was the cat’s meow for chalks and then Pagulayan works a deal with TAOM to introduce a cube version under his name. Boy, I thought that was a brilliant idea and it weighed 1 gram heavier than V10 so the value was equivalent. Now I am starting to wonder about other pool chalks, especially after trying Ghost chalk. Fedorgorst has his own brand of chalk and I was favorably impressed with its presentation, appearance and how it applies and plays. It sure looks and plays like TAOM but can’t be since it is made in America, I don’t know how you feel and despite that Finland is our NATO ally, I still prefer to buy USA.

So after trying the chalk, it absolutely feels better in my grip and it weighs more than other chalks costing every bit as much. Now I am pissed over shrinkage of products in America like food. The bag and contents keep shrinking but the price keeps going up. So I resent being ripped off. Manufacturers can’t raise the price the as high as they want it to be so they bump the price and shrink the contents.

Ghost chalk made me aware of this and now I’m irritated with myself for never realizing this before. So I am simply offering a public service thread. If you like the chalk, and indeed it costs more but gives you more product than other equivalent brands, isn’t it worth considering? Fedorgorst’s chalk has a fantastic shape to grip and it feels more substantial too. It applies great and how long it lasts is yet to be decided. Ghost chalk weighs 24.1 grams…..Wow.
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I don't have enuf brain cells left to worry or think about non essentials like this. Came from spending too much time learning how to play and burned them all up. Masters has and always will serve me well. I just don't invited places. Bummer.😉
 
Cord said:
It's Friday the 13th, gar! Nothing wrong with getting high and having weird conversations. Bava's interests are sometimes a bit esoteric, sure, but if there is anywhere to find an audience for this topic, it's here.
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he didn’t use any of george carlin’s seven dirty words!
 
Hippy Dippy Weatherman Al Sleet reported last nite’s scores 59-37, 48-45, 108-79 and rain interrupted the last game of the nite.
 
I've got a blue Taom V10, didn't like it.
Got 4pc of Pagulayan green which I like, it'll take a long time to run through 4 pcs so I don't need to wonder for a while and when the time will come, we'll see what will be the current hit
 
Bavafongoul said:
Pool chalks are coming out of the wood works or so it seems. I thought TAOM was the cat’s meow for chalks and then Pagulayan works a deal with TAOM to introduce a cube version under his name. Boy, I thought that was a brilliant idea and it weighed 1 gram heavier than V10 so the value was equivalent. Now I am starting to wonder about other pool chalks, especially after trying Ghost chalk. Fedorgorst has his own brand of chalk and I was favorably impressed with its presentation, appearance and how it applies and plays. It sure looks and plays like TAOM but can’t be since it is made in America, I don’t know how you feel and despite that Finland is our NATO ally, I still prefer to buy USA.

So after trying the chalk, it absolutely feels better in my grip and it weighs more than other chalks costing every bit as much. Now I am pissed over shrinkage of products in America like food. The bag and contents keep shrinking but the price keeps going up. So I resent being ripped off. Manufacturers can’t raise the price the as high as they want it to be so they bump the price and shrink the contents.

Ghost chalk made me aware of this and now I’m irritated with myself for never realizing this before. So I am simply offering a public service thread. If you like the chalk, and indeed it costs more but gives you more product than other equivalent brands, isn’t it worth considering? Fedorgorst’s chalk has a fantastic shape to grip and it feels more substantial too. It applies great and how long it lasts is yet to be decided. Ghost chalk weighs 24.1 grams…..Wow.
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So far, the Ghost products I have tried are very top quality – the pool shaft polisher spray and the ball polisher spray, although it’s likely both might very well be the exact same solution, just packaged differently. I might give the chalk a try.
 
Well, because I read this I went to go weigh the 2 chalks I use most at the moment (my scale doesn't give me tenths to the gram.) My unused green V10 weighed 16g, my unused blue Pyro weighed 15g. 9 pieces of unused blue Pyro in the box weighed 159g. 8 pieces of unused green V10 in the box weighed 149g.

Today I learned.
 
My scale doesn’t go to tenths of grams, but my measurements were 17g for Pagulayan and 16g for V10. The piece of Pagulayan you weighed looked at least a little used.

I agree that the Gorst is bigger. I like holding the shape - but I don’t know if all of the surface is useful (like will the pieces at the 4 corners be useful). I agree that is seems okay, but I like the Pagulayan and probably won’t switch.
 
Bavafongoul said:
When you heft the weight of Ghost Chalk versus all the other brands, it is just heavier.

The effort required to do this was to retrieve a chalk box & I have scale in my pool case.
It’s in my case so I could weigh a shaft or cue butt & digital calipers are in my car’s trunk.

Just an observation but Ghost chalk costs as much as Pagulayan but has 45% more chalk.
I think that suggests it is going to last longer and the higher price is easily more justifiable.

This thread will have minimal interest to the majority of pool players that misapply chalk to
their cue’s tip, don’t care what chalk brand they use or the chalk mess some brands create.

But if you want a pool chalk that just feels better in your hand, offers a lot more value and
performs equivalent to what you now might play, Ghost chalk is certainly worth considering.

Garczar, although you have no interest, facts create knowledge and what I posted has never
been brought up as a mere observation I can recall. But it definitely has economic inferences.
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Disclaimer, I don't really have a preferred chalk, and tend to use Master more often than anything else. I've used Predator for a while, but the knock is that it's messy, and I did notice that when I used it at home, my bridge hand got blue smudges from the cloth a lot faster. It doesn't vacuum out as easily either. I still have some, but it's not my first choice.

This past August, at the APA event in Las Vegas, someone left one of the Pure chalks at a table at the end of the night. Since they were selling for about $30 out there, I saved that one and gave it a try. I really liked it! I used it playing in an 8 ball mini, and I was killing it. During the last match, when I was on the hill, it slipped out of my hand and rolled into a pocket.......gone. I looked through that slot below the short rails and it didn't make it that far, so it fell through before getting there. Oh well, easy come, easy go. While I don't ever see myself buying $30 chalk, I really liked that Pure.

Weighing the cubes (rounds?) is an interesting way to look at them. Never saw that aspect explored, good thinking! The comment about usability that @GideonF posted is a great point too, how much of that extra weight will actually be applied to the tip, and how much just creates a different shape for the product, a marketing thing. I find that my Master cubes are fine when dished into that concave shape they seem to get to, but once that becomes more hole than dish, I'm done with it, and just start using another.

There's also a difference in feel when applying chalk, and I notice a wide range of that in my Master chalks. Some cubes are so hard that you feel it when trying to brush the chalk onto the tip, I don't like those. Others seem just a tad softer, and they feel and work better to me, so I prefer those. That might be a moisture content thing for the chalk itself, and I have seen that mentioned on these forums before.
 
This thread is heavy shit, Got me thinking... what is the weight of a Triangle tip... weight of the rubber bumper.
I might weight a half piece of V10 later using a bathroom scale. Would weigh myself first then with the piece of chalk.
 
Pool chalks are coming out of the woodwork for the same reason different LD shafts did after Predator’s 314’s and CF shafts did after Predator’s Revos.

Because there’s always a group of suckers that will buy the “newest thing” thinking it will be the magical thing that will take their mediocre game to the next level.
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