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I designed and built that cue. Dan did the finish, the wrap and the shafts. Bill S.

Beautiful cue. Perfect execution. Bill S.

Have someone run a 5/16-14 ACME tap in it. Will work fine. Bill S.

Looks pretty good. I would leave it alone. Bill S.

This is a JW that I called Limited Production. I was designed for pool rooms to resell. This particular cue is BE Maple and Madagascar Rosewood. It was designed without a rubber bumper. Bill S.

I guess I wasn't clear enought. Put a white ring where the spot would be on the breaking end. Shoot numbered balls from the head spot into the far corner pocket. No cue ball. Shoot them back from the white spot on the other end. Tom Lowery is the one I got the exercise from. I grew up on...

For all of you that wish to improve your game, here is the practice routine that is the hardest and best one to try. Put a ball on the spot and making sure your stroke is perfectly straight back and through, shoot it in the far corner pocket. Repeat as many times as you can. 5000 balls will do...

Dean, Lots of stories before cue making. But there was a time when I was making cues in Tulsa and still playing some pool. There was a young player in Duncan, OK that had one of my cues. Danny was his name. I heard he was beating all comers on the bar table and had won a great deal of money...

Dean, I guess I was just lucky to have had several good players take an interest in my game starting at 14 years of age. I learned at the Student center at SMU and there were several players that would help me with straight pool every night. The rest of the time I practiced with Mosconis'...

Yes, it is a JW and a nice one. Congrats, Bill S.

I think you are correct. It was a perfect 500. At least that what I was told by Taylor. Bill S.

Dick, Been missing you. You are almost old enough to remember. I was playing Bobby Chapman 1500 a game in the middle and giving up the 5 and the break. Bobby was betting another 4K on the rail every game. It took longer to settle the bets than it did to play a game of 9 ball. Bill S.

Ty was great to be around. If you were a young pool player like me at that time being with him was like being in the great Library in Alexandria. He knew everything about pool, cards, dice and golf. Being an arrogant young person (I am now an arrogant old person) I questioned all his exploits...

I wasn't playing. I was just behind his right sholder. Ty invited me to watch out for him, which I did. No one else was in. It was just him. He was playing Everett Goonsby. I remember it just like yesterday. I didn't see him put in the cooler. He told me later. Bill S.

Jay, Do you have memory loss? Remember the guy with a funny name that showed up for the first time at Red's Billiards in Houston? Bill S.

At the Cotton Bowl there was always a fresh group of suckers and a lot of not so smart hustlers. Ty was about my age (75) I was 18. For those that did not know him, he looked like an easy mark. Kinda how I am now. Who would think a 75 year old could beat the Ghost on a tight table playing 10...

I knew Ty personally and spent a lot of time with him at the Cotton Bowling Palace in Dallas. He really could throw playing cards with deadly accuracy. He played good golf with either hand. He was a champion trap and skeet shooter. He was a great card cheat. I used to sit next to him and got...

My definition of Center ball is low, middle and high. English is when you use side spin. I don't know how Buddy plays now but he didn't use a lot of side spin in the past. Neither did Lassiter and many good players in the past. Many of todays player line up with spin but end up hitting the...

Jack, I still play mostly with center ball but I am not the only one. Many top players look like they are lining up with English but when you watch the cue ball after the shot you see it was center ball after all. You need English to play position sometimes or to make a ball that is not ON...

The ISL stands for the International Snooker League that I played in and Vernon was at the tournament in 1980. Bill S.