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    Why do people from Ohio think Ohio is the epicenter of Pool?

    pool is in the tri states blood in the cincinnati OH and Kentucky area you have birth place of 3 of the top tables of all time. Brunswick,Diamond,National. some one was buying them to keep em in the green.
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    New Cue vs. New Shaft

    if you play good and feel good with what you got run with it. dont change what works. before you get a hole new shaft or cue try swaping tips. it took me a year to find out that sniper tips are were its at for me.
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    Maple shafts versus Low deflection shafts.

    well low deflection shafts and maple shafts can be the same thing. the only thing that matters is low end tip mass. to get to this low defection goal the first 5 inches or so of the shaft are hollow and a very light ferrule is put on the shaft. or in the case of the OB shaft no ferrule. the...
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    Custom Skull inlay

    my stick hey thats my stick. well it was built for me. i played with it for about a year and a locol pool hall kid offerd me $1200 for it. so i took the cash and drove over to Dicks that day and orderd another stick lol. should i ever part with the cue i have now id do the same thing again...
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    Prefered cue weight

    i dig my first cue was a crap nick varner cue that was a 21. i told it to go kick rocks in flip flops. i asked to hit balls with a number of cues in the local pool rooms and found the 18 to 19 range with and ever so slight forward feel to be to my fancy. i took my happy butt over to Dickie an...
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    help me find a cue for less than $100

    for the money for around a $100. hmm. i would get my fave house cue from my local pool room. give the owner like 10-20 bucks for it. then take the one peace cue to any cue builder worth his salt and ask him the "sneaky" it up. id say for around $150 you may even get the cue builder to slick...
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    Meucci Gambler series M-12

    nice case i have a 1x2 it's George case and love it. i would not take less then $200 for my case. I have seen ones like yours go for $350 to $400. as for the gambler. i have flipped a few hundred sticks in my day. it seems old Bobs cues get harder and harder to sell. what i would do is sell...
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    Steel half joint question

    Half SS joint http://www.schmelkecue.com has 3/8 ss joints. in the the cue building section. I have a half ss joint on my Dickie cue and love it.
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