Recent content by GorstyBoy

Just installed a white storm on an OK healing jump cue. I had no problems with the stock tip, but this thread got me too curious... Looking forward to playing with it soon

before I read your post I was thinking teflon tape, but now that you say it works for a while then works loose, I would say add more tape. But inspect the cue from the outside first for any sort of hairline split near where the weight bolt sits. You could be driving a larger and larger wedge in.

I wondered when someone on here would mention K-Ball... fun concept

Yup. That's what I was saying. And to state the obvious: at a tolerance of +/- 0.003" one ball to the next could vary up to 6 thousandths of an inch while still in spec.

Nice! Thanks for adding

Totally agree. As if that large after motion imparted anything positive on the cue ball. I see some people do that in pool halls then look around to see who noticed...

Stumbled upon another old video. I had never seen Ronnie Allen play before. I know the pockets are larger than today's usual, but wow! These guys are swinging at very low percentage shots and nailing them! Sharing this link somewhere in the middle because the intro is long:

You will quickly notice those tolerances when one particular ball is always rolling freely while you slide the rack into place because it is not constrained due to being undersized...

At the timestamped video below, Strickland is playing Sigel in one pocket and briefly comes to the table with radio earmuffs that I hadn't seen the likes of since the 90s. By the time he returns the table he has taken them off, but it cracked me up. Noticing the date of the video was 2017 made...

The first time you see that guy play it's quite jarring until you understand that this is not a conscious decision

It doesn't bother me too much. I'm just happy to be shooting pool. It's most annoying to add moving chalk out of the way to my pre-shot routine, but if that's the worst of it, I'm having a good day.

Ralph: "Address the chalk" Norton: "Hellooooo Chalk!"

An older fellow that I've logged many hours playing against has a chalk habit when he first arrives to play. He grabs 5 cubes of masters chalk and walks around the gold crown table placing one on all but one rail sections. Then as he plays, he chalks up abundantly and sets the chalk face down...

Nice thread resurrection! I missed this one. This is my jam to a T. Lens distortion can make balls appear as ovals and fall out of the bounds of a radius filter of the hough transform applied to circles. For a fixed camera, finding the diamonds in the image can be used to make a transform to...

He has several parked in the corner. He plays with the door open so he has room to cue, but if he needs to shoot next to the door, out come the shorter cues!!