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The Bowery Billiards Company was started by Isadore Rich. His son Sol (Saul) started Rich Cue as an offshoot. Bowery concentrated on billiard balls. Cousin Abe joined the company years after his holocaust survival as a worker bee. An apprentice, so to speak. But make no mistake, Sol was...

No, it’s not an Abe Rich. It’s a Rich Cue

I wrote the InsidePool article on Abe Rich. In case you wanted some answers.

As I said, it’s not an Abe Rich. If you’re trying to show me a Rich Catalog, then that is your proof that it is not an Abe Rich.

It’s not an Abe Rich.

Full splice. Or a shorty full splice blank. It’s the Balabushka method of the short full splice blank attached to the handle, but George would put an anti-buzz ring between the handle and the forearm blank.

It is simply because the position of the chalk in the hand. To place it face up, you have to reposition the chalk with a slight rotation. In Efren’s case, he has a unique chalking style where he sort of cups the chalk. Sometimes, he would to really have to spin the chalk to put it face up.

I’ve never heard this. I know Rempe won several in a row, and I know Sigel won several in a row. But never heard Buddy winning several majors in a row. @jay helfert

My wrong opinion. 1970-1972 Ginacue due to the block letter GINACUE of that timeline BR Titleist - definitely not an original Ernie-built forearm Value Range: whatever people want to spend on it. $2000 minimum, I think. The nostalgia is what's going to drive the price. Consider that...

Just a little somethin’ somethin’

Golf putting has two targets: the ball and the hole or imaginary spot on the green. Pool has three targets. It would be like if golf had some other ball that our ball had to hit to combo it into the hole. If that were the case, then golfers would have the same discussion of whether to look...

It’s a conundrum because beginners will remain beginners until they start using side spin. How could they possibly know when they’re past the beginner stage if they don’t use side spin?

This may or may not help. My Mezz 5/16-14 is a slightly undersized pin. I assume they all are. Maybe not as undersized as Schon, but for sure smaller than my Tascarella and other full-size. My Mezz shaft will not screw all the way on the Tasc or Adam Balabushka for sure. I have a Cynergy...

He’s never replied to me!

Not quite sure what you’re saying but that pin, that pilot nosed 5/16-14 Schon pin that Evan created in 1993 should fit every Schon 5/16-14 shaft (except for maybe the S-series). That was Evan’s pride… that all Schon 5/16-14 shafts fit all Schon 5/16-14 butts. He thought he was the first to be...