Recent content by JPB2

Players waxing a shaft was common. It is not the same thing as putting silicon on a cue ball. At all. I am not commenting on what may or may not have happened in the recent tournament. I am saying don’t equate buffing a shaft with doctoring a cue ball. They just aren’t the same. One guy hit...

Yeah can’t tell much from the pic. But already an improvement in how it looks compared to the Global/Brunswick IMO.

What if a player asks the ref whose turn it is? What is the rule on that? If you know it isn’t your shot how is it not unsportsmanlike conduct to stand there instead of going to the chair? I haven’t had a reason to read their rules, but yeah, if you play in them you better read their rules...

My gripe with it is that the ref was spotting the 8 ball because of the rules, then didn’t say whose shot it was. Announcers said he wasn’t allowed to interfere with the player shooting so couldn’t say it was Sky’s shot. Yeah players need to know the rules. But to me this really brings up...

Yes and no. To me the quintessential barbox is the 7’ (93”) Valley with standard slow cloth and the big cueball. That was bar pool when I started. 9’ Gold Crown at the pool hall and Valley with the big cueball at the bars. So the 7’ Diamond with Simonis and good balls is a bar table but not...

Yeah, and look at the B&R percentage after a successful break by excellent players and tell me again why 500 FargoRate players need to be playing 10 ball on 3.75” pockets on a 10’ table.😉

I never met him until this year in Las Vegas. Talked about a cue deal but nothing came of it and I bought a video. I had heard a little about him but had never met him. We didn’t discuss anything personal but he was a straightforward guy talking about deals. Like I said, I don’t know him but...

Had occasion this week to hit a few with a Schmelke that a guy picked up recently. It is old. I can’t remember which decade he said it was from. Anyway, it is an old one, ‘50’-70’s era- sorry for not remembering exactly what he told me. Had the old Schmelke joint, full splice, a little butt...

Great you did that. Small town 4th of July. Food booths run by local groups, churches etc…. Went to the ice cream booth and asked for 3 cones for us. They sold one thing. Ice cream cone for 2.75. The other worker would get which flavor. The high school age volunteer couldn’t figure out the...

I was about to comment I thought that was just I-80 in Wyoming. Jan 1 this year WYDOT website listed stretches of road as yellow. If I knew yellow meant total whiteout and hope to see an orange stick on the guardrail…. Laramie never looked so good. This summer they closed it to light trailers...

Felt is good. Basically my go to when visiting. Others I either haven’t been to or it’s been too long….

I haven’t had those mushroom either.

Not at all foolproof IME. Yes, I may well be a fool. Foolproof it is not. I had experience with that one before I tried the Longoni

I only got to use one of those recently. A guy who does tips keeps one in his bag for pool hall touch ups. I asked him to trim a tip he had put n a while ago. I have managed to screw up tips or ferrules with other tools. My efforts to replace my own tips were unsatisfactory to me etc…...

I am not judging or critiquing Dr. Dave’s teaching here (I’ve never had a lesson from him or seen him teach in person- I have read his posts and seen videos like most everyone here) or any other instructor… Here is where I think things can break down between good or great instructors and where...