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What I did is mount hanging brackets on an 8ft stick of leftover baseboard from the walls - so matches the room. Beads are strung on wire, board is hung on studs. I did get that green-vinyl coated clothes line to use originally, but then found out that the inner beads are drilled smaller than...

Am loving having pool at home, as is everyone else in the family! Construction continues - finally added (and stocked) the mini-fridge, TV is wall mounted and playing DVDs and CDs (no internet yet), and tonight I got the scoring beads hung! :)

Thought of this in the thread about distractions, but wanted to break out the question in a separate thread. In chess, there's generally 2 schools of thought on how people play - many try to focus on the board very technically, almost to the exclusion of their opponent, :cool: others like the...

Very active with my kids - all in their 20's right now Many, many years teaching chess at a scholastic level Have done a quite a bit of sailing (Sunfish, Lasers) Play with photography off & on, especially macros and artistic FX Online gamer, but not active at the moment

Hey, I know that place! Great place to do shots with friends and play with the waitresses - forty bikes out front (on weekends at least), but not the best venue for actually playing pool...:thumbup:

Can I? Can you link me to some instructions? Would I need to screw up the new cloth? Do I need any skills? - seriously, I would like to see some form of instruction on cleaning or replacing them...

I use a specific methodology for distractions - I soak 'em in. I walk into the bar, I take in everything, look at the cute girls, the ugly guys, check the TVs, basically case everything going on. Next, any time I do get distracted, I accept the distraction - watch the music video or hockey game...

I use this system, because it's on the piece of paper I have and it makes sense to me: :wink:

Beneath_the_sur, Surprised - you make that look easy! Looks like it works well. What is your total length, about 7, 7.5 ft?

Jems, Thanks for the pic, I don't mind flipping it on my PC to look - cool idea making a running shelf from it. That's a really LONG configuration too, what is that a 12 ft span? Nicely done!

100% agree with the OP - could have written the post myself. I think lack of $ is the reason I can't comfortably gamble. I grew up without blow money, raised a family of 6 on one non-college income - gambling has always been impossible to enjoy - even now with kids gone and a really good...

First, thanks to Ideologist, that makes perfect sense, no doubt you're right, whoever turned my shaft down also gave it a nicer finish than out of the box, but had the right equipment to do so. Secondly, I like the turn this thread has taken - lots of good suggestions to consider. I do have a...

I've never used shaft paper or sandpaper on a shaft. Recently I've purchased 2 cues, and received a set of house cues. One of the cues I bought was turned down to 12mm and that cue is a smooth as glass to the touch - noticeably smoother than any of the other shafts. How do I do that? What's...

Planning to take mine out to dinner, surprise her with a new cue she was liking... (married 29.5 yrs)

Got up this morning, coffee, breakfast, boot up the PC, no email, check the forum, clicked this link... what a great start to a Saturday morning! :smile:

NEVER do that! :eek:

My scoring wheels are VERY old and crotchety - difficult to use, The reason for the beads is really preference, though - Beads are COOL. :cool:

I'm using the standard set shown above, and green-vinyl-coated clothes line for the wire. Picked up a turn-buckle and some hooks and clamps, etc. Haven't really figured out exactly how I want to do the install yet, but I'm thinking about some wood at each end to make things easy and secure.

Been there, done that - he's right, this is probably one of them most useful 'improvement' devices I've used. :thumbup:

I'm still near the bottom of the learning curve - being a lifetime banger who's just starting to chase real improvements, and I am getting better. :smile: A few things I did that helped me a lot were watching a variety of instruction videos, playing VirtualPool 4, and swapping my $15 cue for a...