Recent content by boogieman

That looks great! I like your ideas for improvement. Printed in black it would pretty much disappear. I'm assuming you would want one on each side for 1P... I guess they would also be useful for keeping the high balls out of a game of 9B or 10B too. Please let me know if you end up wanting to...

This is a wild and possibly ignorant guess, but could it be for some 5 pin carom game? Like a logo of sorts.

All I can say is WOW. What a match, it has everything you'd ever want in a 1P match.

Pretty good tips.

We'll be keeping you and your family in our thoughts and prayers. We've never met in real life but you are a great person. Take care of yourself and focus on the stuff that matters.

@DrCue'sProtege

Can you post a video that has the cutter you're talking about?

Yeah, that one is a tough habit to break. Basically never touch a rolling cueball or do anything while it's still rolling. If it goes in the drink let your opponent fish it out. The rule seems silly but if you grabbed the CB to give them BIH and purposely made the handoff take a few seconds...

Another thing, if you can't test a table for whatever reason, you can learn a ton by just watching your opponent or others finishing up their set. I usually never get to warm up in league but watching others you can get a feel for speed, how much draw takes, spin off the rails, how the rails...

Red label were screwy. I've had no trouble on a blue label. They bank fine IMO. People say they bank short, but I say they aim short. Now, I do think that the rails look quite a bit different visually and that could possibly lead to some thinking they bank short... IDK. I know the systems but...

My wife and I each have a Diveney cue. Hers was made in 2010, and mine was made in 2021. They are wildly different woods and in those years Pat switched from defaulting to a radial pin to 3/8-10 modified. If you pick both cues up, the balance point plays a huge roll. Hers is a bit heavier than...

A good cuemaker can do a lot with balance points locations through different materials, wood densities, and what pins used throughout. They make them how they feel a cue should behave, or may do custom orders to the customer's expectations, including balance point. Or it can just be made and...

Do you guys remember the video from a few years ago where the guy chalked up and stood up probably 20 times or more on each shot? I forget who it was but it was almost some kind of OCD thing. He played alright but I could never stand to play that guy.

Torque the rails before leveling. If you don't it changes level and you will have roll offs.

I bought my CF shaft when @garczar posted about them. It was one of the original CF shafts and it came with a tip like this. This is a pre time crystal tip shaft. I didn't like the tip, it seemed like a really shitty tip, felt mushy. I replaced the tip and I couldn't have been happier with the...