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Billiard balls were quite heavy back in the day and were borrowed from a game played outdoors on the pitch. They're weren't made of synthetic, carefully weighted materials like they are today. So, even with a pad/tip, cues were subjected to extraordinary amounts of energy at their heads, hence a...

Top of the morning, gents I've been having something interesting happen to me a few times this past month. The heads of the rests have fallen off of the rest and ended up disturbing a number of balls on the table. I hadn't even used the rest yet as I was holding it over the table while walking...

That was quite amazing. I think I want to start playing straight pool now, it seems like I'd enjoy it, almost like a 9-foot version of snooker :D

I think this is a non-issue. While the spoken norm is to keep a steady elbow, there are a wide range high calibre players who drop their elbows in snooker, Ronnie O'Sullivan being a particularly well-known example of it. Not to boast mate, but I receive many compliments on my own stroke on the...

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I've seen them before but knew them as countersunk joints.

Call me old fashioned, but I voted for brass. Love it with the natural look of rosewood. What's a piloted joint? Would that be the equivalent of a tapered "quick-release" thread in snooker?

While this isn't quite pool, I fell to the floor in laughter at this one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeFDv8EFHoE

I don't think monetizing pool to that degree is very sensible in the current economic climate. Not only that, there are also several high level professional pool tournaments around the world that make the world title claim-- you can't make $500'000 prizes for every one of those tournaments, and...