Recent content by Cornerman

Interesting to hear that. I remember JL Chang was notorious for hitting well after the 00 showed, and I had wondered about I want to say that Stu told me the rule. Someone needs to correct me if that is no longer the case.

You can strike the cue ball after the shot clock has wound down as long as you are down on your shot and you don’t get back up off your shot. At least that’s the way the WPA has been doing it for years.

The Taiwanese cues, especially today’s Balabushka Cue Company Balabushkas (owned by Peggy Mallen out of AZ) have thinner silver joint rings. Is Taiwan building copies of the Balabushka cue that the the BCC are having built? Probably.

Depends on what year. Before 1995 - Saitama Japan 1995 -1997 ish - China with Adam Japan’s equipment and workers 1997+ China (Universal Cue by an Adam Japan’s worker’s account), but finished in Japan to get the Made in Japan sticker. These all had the thick rings, but the Universal factory...

Since Competition Sports was started in 1986, some imported Adam Cue would have been made in Japan if ordered before… 1995. Don had started focus for CS on lower cost manufacturing regions like Taiwan. Dave Forman didn’t like the idea and had nothing to do with it, but eventually had a...

This will be confusing, but Competiton Sports eventually did import Adam Japan cues including the HoF Cues, Competiton Sports was an importer, just like Adam NY/Adam USA/Sutra was before . The manufacturer was Adam Japan, who subcontracted to China. Kinda like different dealers can sell Kia...

I haven’t watched this, but The Balabushka Cue Company is a different company than George Balabushka, who is different than the Adam Japan cue company. Should I dread watching this? Edit: as I feared… so many things wrong. Unbelievable. Who owns this video?

I didn’t realize you were asking. What I’m saying is the people who seem to give a lot of answers to your previous questions, the vast majority have never actually asked anybody, but they’re just repeating what they heard on the Internet or what rumors they’ve heard. That seems to be true no...

I think it’s just a case of nobody bothering or caring to ask. It’s amazing what people can find out if they ask. In my case, I had great interviews with: Jed Foreman - son of David Foreman, founder of Adam Cues Patty Vorilas - one of the earliest employees at Adam USA and the last owner of...

Possibly. I interviewed him last month in my ongoing gathering of the Adam timeline and recorded everything so I didn’t misquote.

Dirty little misunderstood secret… Competition Sport was not Adam Cues USA. It wasn’t a continuation of Adam. Nothing like that. They were a completely different entity started by Don Spetkar , who had no ownership in Adam. There seems to be a confusion that Competition Sports was an...

I think I get in to town of Thursday…

9-ball If the breaker makes a ball, he must pushout. If he does not make a ball on the break, the opponent has the option to push out. I’m sure the situation someone will come up with the obvious way of why it won’t work

When I had my last Sheldon cue built, I just had him make sure I could screw in a 3/8-16 adapter bumper. Both Tiger and Migliore (and I’m sure others) make them off the shelf.

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