Recent content by middleofnowhere

This is an extension I made like 30 years ago. I still use this cue by the way. It is actually very simple. In the butt I put in a common brass shaft insert 5/16 x 14. I used a regular bumper and drilled a hole in the middle and put it in with some rubber cement so it is not too permanent. I...

He looks like once apone a time he was a good player.

Is he still alive?

You really need to show some good pictures

You always hear about players. I had heard about Seattle Joe as he was called. This was around 1973 or 74. Well, Joe lived up to the hype. He beat everyone he played when he was here. DiLiberto, Gean the Machine, lots of lesser players giving ridiculous weight. He was amazing and a really...

I think it would be quite telling. If a player after 50 years of playing with the same equipment makes a switch it must mean something. Would Buddy Hall or Ronnie Allen or any of those players if they were around today be playing with CF. Mike Sigel, Nick Varner, Allen Hopkins, Johnny Archer...

When a guy runs a bunch of racks it takes a number of factors. It would not figure to scare off any top player. They may play the rest of the night or multiple nights and not have anything like that repeated. I saw Larry Hubbard do something like that Mike Carella playing like a thousand a game...

Beyond some kind of sponsorship but by choice. Champion players I am referring to.

Years ago I drilled out the first 6" of a shaft and it did in fact change the shaft for the better. I plugged the end and made a ferrule that is little more then a thin sleeve.

I have rethought this and disagree with my own statement here. Shot making is paramount to playing at a high level. I said that cue ball control, be it for position or safety play was most important and that is true. But without accuracy in shooting you can't produce that accurate position or...

What the shot was, was Crane went off the rack and put Miz back on the end rail almost in the corner pocket. There was a ball out from the rack slightly that could be cut backwards in the corner pocket. There's no way you could shoot at this ball though it would be crazy. For one thing it's a...

I saw Crane play a number of times but only really had a conversation with him once. It was at the US Open on Chicago after he had just lost to Miz. I was in the front row and after the match I was in the hotel restaurant. Crane came in and sat like one table from me. He was talking to who I...

Is this him? I'm sorry to say I've never heard of him but that a lot of times is regional. I thought I'd like to know a little bit about him.

Joe Salazar ran out of set on me playing 9 ball on a bar table. We're playing race to 7, I never shot. I'm old and I've been playing so long I don't even remember how many times I've lost sets where the guy ran out the remainder of the set 5, 6, 7 racks. Straight pool had lots of guys run out on...

Safety play and good position play go together. Both require good cue ball control. I think good shot making just seems to come. Good shot making generally just requires the confidence in your ability to take the shoot. I think the way player seem to play now, at least from what I see in the...