Recent content by DangleShot

I should've known you would've addressed that already. :-) There's probably nothing I would know about billiards that Dr. Dave doesn't. :-) Even the physics behind the awesome swirly rotations a ball can make when it enters the corner pocket at a certain angle at a certain speed at the head...

I was declaring anything under the surface of water invisible to the surface of the earth. Granted, it the oceans and lakes of the world evaporated, there would be greater depths and variance from highest to lowest. I chose to count liquid touching the earth as the earth. Not the most popular...

This was pretty interesting to an egghead math guy like me, so I did some math on this on protrusions, depressions, and overall roundness. • The earth's radius is about 3959 miles. • The earth's highest mountain above sea level is 5.5 miles high. • So the highest mountain sticks out above its...

Seems like cloth plays best brand-spankin' new or totally worn. In-between isn't optimal. I hate the 'gutters' that form along the rails from all the ball burns from the rail collisions, they get really bad in those spots where the corner balls hit the rails after breaks and in the throats of...

I have almost the same exact cue, a Jerry -R- but without any signatures. 16 oz butt, 4.5 oz shaft, 20.5 oz total. It's not in pristine shape but I doubt it's ever been refurbished or altered in any appreciable way. It's straight and plays well. I posted about it a couple months ago.

I have a few videos taken of shots I played on my home pool table covered with 'standard green' granito taken a few days apart with the same lighting and the cloth looks anywhere from fairly blue to dark green across the videos. I should say I am partially color-blind... every time I play on a...

Yeah, that's pretty much what the mechanic said. My dad got the table from a well-known local 'pools-and-leisure' store that sells swimming pools, grills, outdoor furniture, and hot tubs, and their installers did the bare minimum and used the standard pilling woolen cloth. They didn't put...

A question for anyone who moves / recovers pool tables. I did read the 8- or 9-page doc on here from 2007-2012 that talks about this issue, I'm a little unsure if my table has the same methods to securing slates and rails since it is smaller and cheaper. According to the mechanic working on my...

I agree that the shot was not lucky. I understand on a regular billiard table a player 'doesn't wanna get too close to his work' but that ball sitting on a rail of a snooker table has very little margin of error to be made, it is deceptively tough with only about a 1/4" wide window of leeway...

Hello, I'm Bill from just outside Buffalo, NY. I'm 50 years old and have periodically read a few messages on this board over the years as I researched anything about pool, billiards and snooker. I started playing when I was in my early teens and still play once or twice a month now. More than...

Yeah, I was in awe of how Adam played fast and exotically at the time. My game was a lot like his and I tried to emulate him. He gave me some pointers and I instantly became better. People around here still know who he is 30 years later. Bill in Buffalo

I was at SUNY at Buffalo at the same time and played against Adam a few times. I didn't know Jeanette Lee went there also. Sorry for the reply 15 years later if that's uncouth ;-)

Those look like balls for 4-way cut-throat. Bill Buffalo NY

I might just do that. I'm not an avid reader per se, but after reading some of the mixed reviews on here, I kinda like esoteric fluff. ;-) If that wasn't evident already :) Bill

You can understand why I thought it wasn't much better than a department store cue, right? I had seen the ESPN-visible brand-name $200-$400 glossy rockets (1996 prices) at the pool hall and my cue didn't look like those. :-) Then when I found out recently it was made by Jerry, and when I...