Recent content by T411

I’ve never seen that pocketing the nine early as frowned upon. If someone is consistently trying to legally pocket the nine when the runout is there then it just shows their inexperience and playing ability or lack there of. Professional players will take the opportunity to play the nine early...

My post was intended to augment your statement and by no means was it meant to denigrate.

Cue makers have always found, experimented, with products/materials from other industries for their cues. Some work better than others. Some would argue don’t work well at all. There are more choices now than ever including adhesives. Cue making is such a small industry that most of the products...

My brain always does the same thing… when I type it out it comes out Philipino. Prolly because I’m thinking about the Philippine islands. 😳😂

I still have a couple of sticks of Westinghouse micarta somewhere. Sometime I’ll put a mask 😷 ☠️ on and turn some down and see if it lives up to the hype.

I don’t think Westinghouse Micarta was expensive. I may be now because it’s no longer manufactured and is hard to find.

I’m definitely not advocating for the difficult life of a “professional” pool player but I respect anyone that can make it happen. Anyone that can make a living at anything they love for that matter because most people don’t love how they make their living. In the 70s an NBA player was lucky to...

Yeah I get it but I’m sure you wouldn’t find very many professional pool players that don’t have an extreme love for the game otherwise they’d work a 9-5. And if they were lucky they’d be one in five that loved that 9-5.

You enjoy what you do so much that you are posting about it on AZB? That’s about as back handed a compliment as you could have given.

No need to prey. Not that he’s a homo… phone

One of the nicer college billiard/bowling rooms was on the campus of NIU in Dekalb. I haven’t been there in years but they used to have Gold Crowns too.

I used to see one piece house cue version in one of the youth centers that I’d go to as a youngster.

Probably was a table at a military installation in a recreation room or base club and was sent to DRMO (Defense Reutilization Marketing Office). If no other government agency picks it up it then goes to auction. Sometimes the equipment is in great shape and replaced only because they have to...

https://thegameroomplus.com/products/brunswick-billiards-gold-crown-coin-7-pool-table?currency=USD&stkn=9e3fa1f06838&utm_term=shopify_US_8150647963876_44583070761188&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAABoHo1KMFFky3UwFKXadO1fKtgykT&variant=44583070761188 This table has been out for a while so maybe...