Recent content by middleofnowhere

I'm not going to say you cuz I think you're probably okay. But I've had people work for me who didn't make very much money and they would send their money down to the track almost every night. They kept their bills paid but beyond that they just gambled with the money. It's the opposite of the...

More is not better. Close up look at the work, it is terrible.

Actually it does. The question would be why would a person who already has money make a bet? One of the main reasons is, in life not a whole lot is unpredictable. Most people get up in the morning they go to their job or they go to their business, the end of the month they know how much their...

What you're describing are the highs and lows people get when betting on things like the racetrack or sports. Pool is different, it's personal. When you lose, you haven't just lost money you've been beaten personally. In many cases the person will feel they've lost face and dignity. The money is...

Many people have money.

What is the actual goal of gambling?

Just looking at few things I would like but not a prime member. Amazon is notorious for knock off and counterfit stuff.

Check with Chris hightower for some ideas. Even if you don't end up buying anything from him just looking at his website is food for thought.

I want to tell you from experience I've got seven lathes sitting in a shop. Forget the Rube Goldberg setup. To start just go by yourself and inexpensive mini lathe. With a few simple mods it'll do what you want. If it turns out you like what you're doing and want to go with something even bigger...

Rocky Tillis used to check out old house cues that have been in use for years. He would buy them from the pool room when he found ones that met what he was looking for. He then cut out the part with enough meat and turned them down for shafts. He made me a sneaky Pete one time and I got to...

Thanks I didn't think I was crazy cuz I used to talk to Bob all the time. If I remember he had some kind of a thing set up using carbon paper that would show exactly where the ball hit and how much it deflected. They would walk around the show and get everybody's cues that would be willing to...

I've been looking and I can't find any. Does anybody have any of the videos of that machine that would demonstrate cue deflection? I used to see it at the BCA show and it was pretty interesting.

Do some of the CF shafts have a wood tone to them that from a distance or on tv would make it difficult to tell if they're Wood or not?

I don't think Abe ever used the name Rich cue. First he was Florida cue then Star cue. I used to go to his shop a lot.

Everything you say is true but a new generation and future generations of players are going to be playing with CF. In many cases probably will never even have played with a wood shafts or have a desire to. At a point wood shafts we'll just disappear as a natural result. I'm not going to do it...