Recent content by ShootingArts

Nothing short of a great story! Hu

It is an effort to improve. Might have to add chess clocks. A clock that would reduce the time per shot as the game progresses might be an option. Fewer balls on the table makes the play more obvious. Players taking twenty minutes to take the only possible shot is ridiculous. Five minutes a shot...

Why would they want the nine ball in the middle of the table? It is probably the easiest ball in the rack to make since you have so many shots to massage it if it needs massaging. The one ball, two ball, those are the ones to get open. If you run the first three balls in a nine ball rack you...

It was mostly on the thought somebody else might read and benefit. If what he posts is true the issue is almost certainly lack of skill. There is no magic break that always lets you run out without being able to come with a shot or two most of the time. My advice will open up a rack. Murphy...

I have slept a few times since reading this or any of your threads so a sincere question: How many different ball sets have you tried? Clean your balls one at a time by hand. Start with the cue ball dead center, put one ball beside it, swing your cue ball to the other side of that spacer ball...

Catch is I wouldn't let my opponent use a special rack unless I was using it too. I think most people would be that way unless they simply said it couldn't be used. Most equipment has to be preapproved by the rules body, very possibly an issue with a five hundred dollar rack. If it really was...

One of life's funnier moments: I had designed a benchrest for a rifle. A few novel features, I knew a market was there to sell in hundreds, low thousands over time. I needed two bearing and race sets, one slightly larger than the other. The bearing supply didn't have the bearings in stock but...

There are some surprising things like that. The last I knew the very cheap wooden house numbers at places like Home Depot were like that. Free scrap from next door, cheap labor maybe through some program I don't remember. The company got so big that they considered NC production. NC required...

That is really what killed many, perhaps most, projects when I worked in R&D. The dreaded "Not commercially viable." It is hard to recovery R&D costs on short run products. One reason that some of the ridiculous looking NASA and military payouts are actually fair. Some are BS, some not. It took...

I thought everyone knew this secret by now. You just lick the balls and roll them together by hand. It doesn't take long to learn just the right amount of slobber to hold the balls together. Too little or too much is bad but just the right amount of slobber is perfect! I tried to train my wife...

I think all of the histrionics and BS is trying to convince themselves and others that they are better than they are playing. Not usually true. I have mentioned it before but a young man had an expensive cue. He must have ordered shafts by the dozen because he snapped one across a table rail...

I am amazed at the price. You could buy an entire fleet of Fords for that price! Be more than halfway to buying a pretty nice house. Gorgeous table though! Hu

A lot of truth to what you say. Who wants to be famous when it bites into your cash? A very small example, I took off a known shortstop in Greenway a couple times about six months apart. Each time it cost me somewhere around $1000-$2000. I would be in that area which was a hotbed of low stakes...

I think that last name is right, closer than I was for sure! I think Adam is the oldest son. I was talking about the youngest playing Landon. Pretty sure he came in second to Landon's first place at least one year. Ryan I think is in the middle, can't remember the youngest one's first name at...

No question in my mind that Landon could have turned pro and won some major events, very possibly risen to the top, number one in the world. Having the good sense not to chase that long shot for anybody or pursue that lifestyle was more impressive than his playing skill. I can't quite recall...