Recent content by Bob Jewett

I recall Josh Roberts doing a pretty good job on a one pocket stream. He might not have the stories, but he gave good shot analysis.

Here's their lineup, with prices. Note that the default price shown is for a small table. You can customize, such as ordering the shape of the diamonds and the material, and the type of wood. The lead time I saw was 4-6 weeks. https://aeschmidtbilliards.com/catalog/all/

I think my set, which I bought from them about 1980, was about the last set to get trued on that turner (1985?). The guy was retired, but came in as needed.

Schmidt is an old-line billiard supply company in St. Louis. I think they were the last company in the US to sell new ivory balls. They did a newsletter in the 1960s to help room owners and printed a book of them -- "The First Five Years of Chalk Up". I'm pretty sure the same family still owns it.

If you hit it hard enough, it has to go in somewhere. (y) I found it especially interesting that they were fretting about which way the nap ran on the nose of the cushion.

Quite possibly -- I don't think they made thousands of them. I think at this point it is interesting only to collectors who want the original game with all its parts. The information is available publicly and the target is easy enough to make from a large sheet of paper. I think sales on Ebay...

What sharks is the unexpected. I've seen serious games with two or three people leaning on the table. That's what everyone did there. If I get up from the audience and lean on your table to see the shot better, I imagine it will bother you. There are "virtual" sharks. Concede some easy nine...

And that's what I do now but I discovered small ball disease in 1967 and somehow I was responsible for the crap in the day room.

Somewhere around $100 but I don’t see them go by very often. There are apps that are about the same thing.

His best win was the Sands Open in Dec. 2004. He had some Joss Tour wins. No majors. He biggest payday was second in the 2005 Skins. Another player with potential, but also problems.

Yes, but.... In the last rack, I think Sky should have played the 4-5 carom like Jerry McWorter pointed out.

Where I play, one problem is that because some balls have been replaced, the balls are different sizes. A tight rack is really hard with different ball sizes. A big problem is when the cue ball gets worn down relative to the object balls. Draw gets very easy and follow is much harder. On some...

From the number you have, it should be easy to calculate the deceleration, in m/s^2, of the center of the ball. The slope is just that over gravity, and then take the inverse to get a number of around 100 for table speed. (This ignores angular momentum, but it's simpler.)

Some people like to know how fast the cloth is. They want a number on it. Some people don't care.

On FaceBook, it's a lot easier to avoid the idiots, and much easier to get great, steaming piles of followers.