Recent content by Jimmy_Betmore

Ehhh... Close enough. Years ago I was playing a kid at the room I hung out in and he hooked himself. He looked at it for a minute then looked up at me and said, "Pass." It doesn't work like that, brother. 😂 😂 😂

The joint style, wood, and finish say, "Asian import" to me. Seeing the shaft would help a ton.

I'd say that, typically, they're similar enough to basically be interchangeable. The wild card, though, is that ABS and PVC can vary in density, hardness, etc. I pulled the table below from a plastics supplier's website. And don't pay any attention to the highlighted part. It's like that on...

ABS or PVC (very similar to Meucci's ferrule material) or Juma would probably be the closest things you could find that are commonly used today. ABS and PVC are, by ferrule material standards, very soft with Juma being slightly harder. A capped ABS/PVC ferrule with a padded tip will hit very...

You mention playing either very aggressive or very conservative. I don't know if you mean that literally or figuratively. But using the only context I have here, your post, I'm going to have to go with literally. The best players play aggressively, conservatively, and everywhere in between...

If you have a joint collar the same or similar length of the cue next to it added to the cue, I'd bet it could be repaired to a point that the average person would never even know anything had happened. Anyone familiar with Szamboti's work could probably tell something was off about it because...

Without seeing it in person it's hard to say for sure, but the pictures also make it look like you might have some mineral deposits in the grain. This isn't uncommon in a lot of exotic woods and will appear like super small bubbles in the actual grain. I dealt with this very issue in an...

They're not typically something I'm drawn to in a "I want that cue" kind of way because I enjoy wood grains more than black against white. Curly maple is my jam. But I still appreciate a nicely executed tuxedo design like the Cog in the post above. I've seen some Josey tuxedos that were...

Haha! Yeah. We realized that after the fact. But, man... My doggies were barking bad by the time we got in that cab. Neither of us were wearing appropriate footwear for that long of a walk. Plus, it was the first full day of our weeklong trip. We took a rental car down to Tucson the...

I'll start with something I haven't noticed in any other post: The Strip is WAY longer than you think it is. The first time I went was around 2001 and we stayed at The Stratosphere. We got up the next morning and decided to walk the entire strip and back, stopping in every casino to get a...

😂 😂 😂 That's crazy! Thanks for the info. I still chat with her every once in a while and I'm sure she'd get a kick out of that tidbit.

Dude, I went down one year just for a few hours and the (now) ex wife tagged along. We were walking around checking out cues and stuff while Joe B. did some tip work for me and I asked her what she thought of the whole thing and she said, "I can smell the testosterone in this place." I swear...

I mean, I don't know what you were there to see. But I saw a lot more than just guys in t-shirts and shower clogs playing pool. But you probably have been and still go to more pro events then I ever have or will. Anyway, the magical part for me was the sheer energy of it. There was something...

I don't have any issues with dress codes for other major events. And I default to polos and slacks for those because, well... It's what you see golf pros wearing. And I don't want them to go back to suits or tuxedos or anything like that. Those are uncomfortable for the players and it's...

So, a lot of you guys want to compare pool to golf. And I get it. They're very similar. They're both single player games that fat guys can be really, really good at. You hit balls with sticks into holes. Once you develop a decent stroke/swing and a basic understanding of the game, most of...