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It's refreshing to see top flight pool bring played at a respectable pace.

Spalted wood is almost always available.

As always Ron's work is beautiful. It appeals to my taste and is impeccably done. I have ordered 4 cues in my life, a fancy custom 4 point Palmer in 1969 which I loved, got stolen, a Balabushka in 1972, got stolen, another Balabushka in 1973, sold and a Haley in 2006 which I had to cancel for...

IMO your reply is an admission of sorts. When it comes to column space for advertising ones work, you are the king. Whenever I read your posts I have to wonder why the rest of the world doesn't see things as well or as clearly as you do. No you don't come right out and state that, but if you...

Steve is right. Everybody is a cuemaker even if last week they were something else. There are no more hobbyists. It used to take 10 years not 2 months and people would pick up and try your cues. Today you just post a picture and someone no one knows extolls its virtues and unbelievable...

You want a new shaft about the same as the one that used to play well. I suggest you take the one you already have and don't use and have it turned down. If you buy a new one you'll still have the one you don't use. Use it.

It is good looking and reasonably common and that is why Rolls Royce uses it. If they couldn't get it they couldn't offer it. Bentley uses a lot of birdseye which they buy by the # of birdseyes per unit area, allowing matching wood in different cars. What can be hard is to get a consistently...

The colors in an ambvoyna burl run from dark reddish tan through the tans to a light golden tan. The husk or sap wood of the burl was whitish tan and like most exotic woods it is usually discarded. It is the heart wood of these trees and burls that is treasured. The sap wood is stable and...

P.T.Barnum was right, there's a sucker born every minute. Now if only those suckers are pool players and have $600 for a shaft you'll be all set. I'm probably going to stick to plain maple.

Easier? I suppose that is why almost all of the first tier of top level cue makers use or used stainless. They like shortcuts. I should have guessed. Funny, but for myself I find just the opposite to be true. A perfectly fitted cue with two compression fitted shafts going into an...

I've been using the same Makita variable speed auto buffer since 1984. It is strapped upside down on a sturdy, cheap. padded wooden stool, has a long cord, a quick change velcro pad, 3 waffle foam pads and 3 different polishes. I just carry it outside the shop when I'm buffing and all the...

I love the no cushion drill. After a few racks start setting the balls up nearer to rails and farther apart. It sharpens pattern play as well as position. you can set up some clusters and you can play two balls ahead. It is a good loosening practice before a match. You get good at it you...

It almost sounds like the hole might need to be tapped a little deeper or perhaps there is a non threaded portion of the screw sticking out of the butt.

I don't like the way SW plays but they are easy to make right.

If you can't put anything on the bed of your lathe without damaging it, you need to get it hardened. The "Hardened " bed is harder than the soft chucks which are just sitting there. I would be willing to bet that the dealer didn't drop the chucks from a great distance onto the beds rather he...

When something sounds too good to be true and doesn't make logical sense when viewed from a distance, the right thing to do is put more distance between yourself and the newest thing. Trudeau started out offering a pot of gold to everyone. No matter how much I wanted to believe that and...

I don't think it's tulipwood or olivewod, the pore patterns are completely different plus there is a flame grain neither wood possesses. That narrows it down to thousands of other species. It is nice looking and so is the cue itself everything goes together.

You should always core first, then turn down using the core as the center. That way everything will be perfectly centered.

Trudeau put millions into pool from the many millions he took out first.

Ain't that the truth