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My Schon cue. Here are some pix. Schon Unique 102. leather wrap.

Green fees Chris, We're ok with opening up bar boxes for tournys, if the green fee makes up for the lost coins. We actually open the tables for the Monday night BCA league, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks, Tracy Elliot and Jack Murray, for your efforts in promoting that league. It's been a rousing...

Come to Tucson We have a 14.1 Tournament at noon, on the first Sat of the month, using Az Ratings. You should come and play in March. Lenny Pockets-Tucson

A few of my favorites: (When being stalled, or playing a slow opponent) "Good thing pool is an indoor sport. Otherwise, you'd have pigeons landing on you." "The guy couldn't play dead in a cowboy movie." "If it was supposed to be easy, they would have called it bowling." "That was a time...

Lots of good thoughts and no real bashing. Good to read. I am also on the committee, along with one of my tourn directors. I like ABCD format and use it for tourn's other than 9-ball. Works well for 8-ball, and one-pocket. (We don't use AZ rating numbers for One-pocket) I think ABCD would...

I wrote an article once on why jump cues don't make good break cues and vice versa. Biggest difference is a jump cue has max deflection, and a break cue should have low deflection. Last thing you want on the snap is a bouncing cueball. That being said, I don't jump much, and when I do, it is...

I use Q-Clean on a damp rag when reconditioning shafts for my customers, but Comet on a washcloth will do the same thing. i am spinning them on the lathe, but I think it is actually more effective to do it by hand with up and down strokes. Keep turning the rag and dipping it in the scouring...

The bottom edge of a flat tip would contact the ball slightly lower than the rounded tip, but the trade-off is the fact that you would get very little leather on the cueball. The rounded tip gives you more surface contact, ie, a bigger footprint, on the cueball for more effective control on...

Force Follow is Spin vs Roll A rolling cueball will follow. If you use a high tip and a hard stroke, you will get the cueball to spin forward on the cloth, like peeling out in your car. If the cueball is spinning forward at impact, you have "force follow".

Thanks! Thanks for the kind words, Bob. We try hard to have the best equipment around. Lenny