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In the sixties fishing rods came in cases. Cardboard tubes for the low end and aluminum for good fly rods. My first cue case was an aluminum rod case cut down to fit. Forty years later as a very active motorcycle rider I wanted an aluminum tube case to protect my player. I found one made or...

Sometimes when people miss a money shot, they just go ballistic.

All I know is if you break ten racks with a triangle (wood or metal) and ten with a template, the spread is much greater with the template. Ten out of ten times. As tested by a geezer with arthritic everything.

I guess it's history now. I bought one a few years ago and was shocked at how well it was made. The finish was very slippery and I would rub it down with wax paper, but I got used to it. Anyway, mine has a flat face 3/8th. pin. What surprised me was that when screwed together the grain in the...

I'm signed up and I have to add than anyone in the DMV area looking for a school would do well to attend. I first met Mark and Mark 10 or 12 years ago when they both were teaching for for another instructor at another school. Both men were far better instructors than the "head man". Their only...

Didn't vote because there's no spot for the single ball Aramith polisher. I touch up the cue ball each day. All the others stay pretty damn clean in a home environment.

This. I have used those that find excuses for the hustler mentality of such as Dean, RKC, etc. as a judge of their character. It's an easy way to eliminate sellers and services.

Not what I mean. Would they want to be involved in another fiasco? Did Dean hurt the Schmelke business too?

I have a secondary question to this whole sordid affair, that will never be known but would be enlightening. If Dean was to go to Schmelke again to contract for two dozen identical cues without the Schmelke name on them, would they be built?

Watching these stupid colored balls on TV is like dropping tabs of orange sunshine. A bad idea in '69 and not much better now. It's just another cheap trick for the Chi Coms to sell more unnecessary junk.

I have to agree with Geosnookery here about the home table culture. Once upon a time, mid-sixties, I was a poolroom regular. Then real work interfered with that aspect of life. Forty some years later I have two tables in the basement and it's a retired culture. Now there are three poolrooms...

Do it yourself, for three reasons. 1. Since it's your table you will do a better job than the "mechanics" doing table installation for Costco. 2. Where you do goof up will give you that inside knowledge of where there's table roll off or a weird pocket. Don't tell your friends. 3. It gives...

I'm a geezer and know what a ball color is supposed to be. And will never, ever buy a set of TV, marble, elephant, weird triangle spot or whatever other retarded idea the "industry" comes up with. Good enough for Willie, is freakin' A good enough.

When you screw that Mezz together with their United joint it will lock up tight like a one piece cue. I have a few other cues with a 5/16X14 pin and they don't compete. I don't mess around trying to swap shafts and stick with Mezz. I figure just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Is the home, hearth and BBQ going to have hundreds of pool tables set up for both amateur and pro competition? A gambling section? Another shit load of tables just for test driving cues? Oh yeah, and thousands of cues to look, fondle and do said test drive? As a billiard consumer I'm very happy...

One day plan, there are two shafts I've wanted to test drive for two years now. Plus other shopping too.

Just received a email, Allen Hopkins is confirming SBE is on for April 18-24th. This is great news. It's been a long two years.

Notice just went out today that the Super Billiards Expo is on this year and expanded too. It's in eastern PA. in April. Worth the drive.

Unless I missed it we went four pages until a tape measure was mentioned. Not even Johnny with his spare dentures carried a tape. I too wondered why. Pocket size affects all players. So what? Two balls fit,or they don't. Being a bucket banger thats all I need to know. Has the pocket size...

I think Tom is a lightweight compared to Paul Newman. But my question would be, could he come back and play in The Color of Money following the books version just changing it to a mature Vince? Note: the actual book is way different than the movie version. The characters are older, more...