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Absolute Billiards 678.409.7904. Owner Brett Buchanan. Been using them for many years. Very good work. Never an issue. 5.0 rating with 392 reviews on Google. Just used them to recover and reshim my Olhausen, They did a perfect job. Not sure about the methods you mention. You can ask.

Is it my imagination or do the younger (say under 40) pool players in general not care about custom or high end cues? My experience in Atlanta is that most anyone under 40 has no idea of Szamboti, Balabushka, Joss West etc. etc. or handmade custom cues in general. Most seem delighted to have...

Ouch! I thought it was the Diamond tables not me.

AE Schmidt is getting a lot of love on AZB recently. I hope the Schmidt’s know this.

Maybe it’s because I grew up in STL and loved the way Schmidt tables played but if I were in the market for a new table I might well buy an AESchmidt St Louisan because: 1. I don’t like Diamonds — they bank differently, they hang up more balls than other tables and to me they have no real...

Grand-Olive Billiards in St Louis had 24 of them -- 15 pocket billiards, 7 three-cushion and 2 snooker. There's a post card showing them kicking around this site. What a place it was!

As a side note, AES made Harold Worst cues in the 1960s. They had ribbed plastic wraps, were solid maple and cost $13.00-ish. You couldn’t go to any pool hall in STL without seeing a few.

Mine are 3/16” neoprene 60 durometer hardness.

I had my Olhausen modified to add 3/16 shims with 60 durometer hardness and it greatly reduced all rattles and also the pocket size a bit. I do think that there is a reason Olhausen sticks with its geometry, although it would be very nice to hear from them about this. I think it may be that...

Willie Mosconi knew how to play but not how to teach it to others.

black or natural.

Viking Kayano cues are beautiful, play great and very fine customer service.

I have a Chinese/Amazon ball cleaner that works fine. No issues and way faster than doing it by hand. I got it on sale for about $130.00. And its $129.00 right now on Amazon and they'll deliver it tomorrow to my house!

Attention Olhausen Physicists: I just had my eight foot Olhausen recovered (Simonis 860) and had the shims changed out to "3/16 60 durometer in order to see if this would reduce the pocket rattle. Changing the shims has made the table play better: 1. The rattles occurring when a ball grazes a...