Recent content by bes

Always enjoy his commentary. RIP!

I thought the 19th point was super - 20th impressive too! bes

I appreciate the video. From the angles, it seems that your set-up must be a bit different than the other video. I'd like to see you try the follow (2-rail) shot with about 1/3 or 1/4 less speed. Your shot looked like it was on a good line, but you overran the position fairly significantly...

You took the time to set up the shot. You tried multiple routes multiple times while videoing in real-time. As if that wasn't egregious enough, you made a logical, rational assessment of YOUR preference after trying the different options. Are you crazy? Your efforts are very much...

Congratulations! bes

I'm really enjoying this thread and appreciate the input from all the experts. -bes

It looks like the frame is rectangular steel tubing, which is likely as strong or stronger than a "much beefier looking" wooden frame. A steel frame will also be far more stable and should be immune to humidity induced changes. I'm not sure I love the looks, but I suspect the frame is stout...

Hope the table is legible... Interesting that common snooker and carom shaft have the same ball diameter/tip diameter ratio. bes

Nice marker! I designed a couple myself and agree about preferring two angled surfaces. The one in the pictures was my first shot. I made it a bit bigger so I can pin it down with two fingers for stability. My 3d printed ones work fine, but I had one machined out of aluminum (7075-T6!) that...

Some of the Mexican (perhaps other central American) players here have an unusual solution to frozen cue ball situations. They just drop a cube of chalk (from about 10 inches I guess) onto the frozen pair and play whatever results. Anyone else seen this? It may be an "informal" thing, but...

Strong!!! I thought he got pretty lucky on shot #14 (didn't kiss the red out of the corner), but had a ton of really nice shots. I particularly liked shot #5 and #9. Shot 21 was pretty touchy too.

Been there! After both my opponnet and I failed at using it for the 2nd ball for something like 5 minutes I just gave up and tried a force-follow through it. I almost scored, but left my opponent a cookie... ;o(

I wouldn't have imagined that shot or believed it was possible. Even with video evidence I'm not totally convinced! Wow!

The finals - Jaspers vs JT Kim has Blomdahl and Zanetti announcing. Very interesting!

I voted "yes", but there are exceptions. Author and subject matter a lot, but I'll generally read at least a paragraph if it looks at all interesting. There are some posts and posters where I can't/won't get though a short sentence, but not really that many.