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    Robert Weir

    I was at a tournament at the Maverick Club in Richmond Kentucky in about 84-85 and Wier was there showing his cue and acting like he had made them but of course he hadn't. I won a raffle and got a cue I think was a model H and a Wier black satin jacket. I sold the cue as it didn't suit me but...
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    Robert Weir

    Here's you a copy of the catalog
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    How many still have the first cue they ever bought?

    I still have them all.
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    The Greatest Billiard Players of All Time You Need to Know

    The one I didn't get to meet that I missed out on was Luther Lassiter. I would really have like to meet him.
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    pool nicknames

    Remember Lotsapopa well, played him a couple of times. He had a great singing voice.
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    The Glenn Family

    Phil Windham from Chattanooga has a Balabuska he got in a trade with the Glenns, maybe the only one they let go.
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    Funny pic/gif thread...

    You can ask Charlton Heston
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    Redoing my table on my own because I want to learn.

    The best thing you can do is contact RKC for any advice you need. Talk to him right and he is very helpful and there's no one with more knowledge regarding the tables.
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    Facebook Marketplace Listing - 1972 Babushka Cue w/ Spain Forearm

    He has two LOA's from some very highly qualified cue makers/collectors. Balabuska seldom actually entirely made a cue. He used forearms from Burton Spain, Gus Szamboti and other master cue makers from the time period. He then assembled the cue in his fashion and its this work that makes it...
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    Funny pic/gif thread...

    They put the third one in the wrong placit should be on her back so her boyfriend would have something to hold while they're dancing
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    Funny pic/gif thread...

    Well she was definitely a honey but her hair was a bit orange.
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    Funny pic/gif thread...

    Real men don't give a rat's ass what other people think. I've got a buddy who's always popping off about stuff like this and I keep telling him no one cares what he thinks.
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    Jeanette Lee Biography Giveaway

    Please add me to the list of interested readers.
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    Stippled grip

    Here's a project I've done.
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    Funny pic/gif thread...

    If that's all you've got that's not much.
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    What tips, ferrules and stain belong on 100-year-old house cues?

    You should check with cue repairmen, they are likely to have some laying around. I've just got a couple of blacks left that are 3/4 inch long but I have several whites that are about 1 1/4 inch long. I have the whites with either 5/16 or 1/4 tenon hole.
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    What tips, ferrules and stain belong on 100-year-old house cues?

    I forgot tips would have either been Elk Master or Le Pro. Fancy cues would have been Champions with a red fiber backing.
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    What tips, ferrules and stain belong on 100-year-old house cues?

    To replace ferrules you will need access to a lathe and it will be one that can handle a full length cue. If you're trying to restore them back to original condition you would likely want to use fiber ferrules in either white or black. That's what the house cues came with and the private cues...
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    Mcgoorty

    Yeah that guy had lorded it over the whole town about how good he was. But he found out what a player really was.
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    Mcgoorty

    I've read the book and have had a copy for about 30 years or so. My favorite scene was when he hopped a passenger train to go west not realizing there's no play to ride without a ticket on a passenger train and that's why you hop a freight train.
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