Recent content by nickgeo

Cue weight, schmoo weight.... Is there a limit on the weight of your hand? Just put on a few really big 18kt gold rings and you can easily add a few ounces to the cue-hand system.

Parallel or perpendicular to the shaft.... The big difference is that the tools of other sports - baseball bats, hockey sticks, tennis rackets, golf clubs, etc. - all have shafts that flex when the ball, or puck, or whatever is struck. That stores energy while the ball is compressed; that...

Game changes at 10 feet I play 14.1 exclusively on a 10-footer (no 100s yet, except for its age, a gorgeous old Kling). All of a sudden you can't reach a significant number of shots. Even some standard break shots are a difficult stretch if you are standing behind the head rail and the cue ball...

Student's t-test And around the turn of the century (1900) an employee at Guinness, Wm. Gosset, developed the t-test and t-distribution, fundamental developments in the nascent field of statistics.

Two Questions 1. What is meant by "official?" 2. Are there examples of "records" in other sports that did not take place in a tournament? One wonders whether Mosconi's impressive run got into Brunswick's record books (actually their pool rules book) simply because he worked for Brunswick and...

No work Roomba - does the job with no effort and fun to watch, too.

Points of strength Although it was correctly stated that full-spliced points, and butterflies, afford large surface areas for gluing, it also should be realized that this construction made part of the cue a composite material. This gives great strength because the grains, or directions of...

Easy Tables? In close up, those table look quite easy. I don't really see any shelves on them. Also, the corner pockets seem to lack sharp points and appear rounded at the edges. Anyone who was there to confirm?

Nasty Big Kling! 4 3/8 with 2-inch shelf on 5x10 Brunswick Kling.

Wrong screw? All my Rambows have a big ugly slot-head wood screw holding on the butt plate.

Memory Hi, I purchased 29-B in 1972 or 73 at Blatt Billiards in NYC after my '69 Plymouth Satellite with my Hoppe in the trunk was stolen parked in Flatbush. I still have the Rich Cue, the other are gone forever.

6'-5" ! That's cheating. Hi, If we ever play I'm grabbing my girlfriend's platforms. Interesting that you have similar problems despite your height. What's also interesting is that Mosconi's height is given as 5-8. Crane, the Deacon, is always described as tall, so (for old times) at least 6...

Out of reach.... Hi, Not much has been said about how difficult it is to reach a surprising number of shots on a 5x10. I'm 5-11 and play exclusively on my 5x10 Kling (4 3/8 corners with 2-inch shelves). I find that I had to develop some new 14.1 position strategies to avoid awkward reaches over...

Tiffany Rack Try the sterling silver Tiffany rack. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Atlas-Tiffany-Co-Sterling-Silver-Billiard-Cue-Rack-Made-In-Spain/132643825332?hash=item1ee23026b4:g:~HcAAOSw7m9a-Kaa Only way to play....

Pool book writer? Maybe I'm off base here, but I find it odd that the apparent author of pool books doesn't know what a drag draw shot is???