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I made that cue for Vernon Tindale. One of a kind. Bill S.

Sorry to hear about Melvin. I spent a lot of time playing at Macks' place. Is Wescott still away? BILL S.

Kolby's is the place. Lots of one pocket. Bill S.

Panagiotis, I appreciate your approach in trying to characterize the mind's working but you just have to have been there many times to understand mine. I was playing 1000.00 a game 9 ball when I was only 17 years old. I bet my own. I didn't always have more that 5 barrels in my pocket. I had...

I guess to don't play for serious money very often. Winning is what's it all about. You can't win playing by yourself. If you think you will play your speed after someone put a 6 or 8 pac on you in a race to 11 you are dreaming. Bill S.

I agree that confidence can be innate behavior created by success in life. But in my own personal experience playing pool I find that confidence only comes from winning. You can practice all you want by yourself but it won't give you confidence when you play someone else. You build confidence...

There are now LEDs to replace fluorescent bulbs that work very well. Bill S.

Sorry I didn't see the ball under his stance. That might change the order of the balls depending where he gets on the 11 ball. If he gets where he can make the 11 and move the ball under his arm and get a shot at his pocket then that is the shot. If he gets straight on the 11 then roll up for...

You shoot the 6,8,go 2 rails,5 (trouble ball in front of the 15),15,7,11 and then bank the 14. Bill S.

When Dan and I started Joss Cues the first thing we did was to measure a Balabuska shaft from my own cue. I liked the way it felt. Later I was given a copy of Kershenbrocks' book where he laid out in excruciating detail the taper for his shafts. It was a series of very short straight lines...

Shawn, I don't see any innovation either. What a shame. Bill S.

Shawn, I gave up cue making because of my eyesight not because of a lack of fresh ideas. Many of my ideas like vibration damping, low squirt, interchangeability are being incorporated by Taican already. If I were still involved I would go even further. 3D printing, a real research department...

15 years ago I would not have even considered having a production as my playing cue. Not because I was a pretty good cue maker but because the quality of production cues was simply not very good. That all changed when I started consulting in China. I shared with them 40 years of cue building...

I was one of the first to start coring cues. I started in 1989. There were several reasons I thought coring was a good idea. I made a lot of ebony front cues and it was a way to control the weight and also the sound the cue made. I had studied laminated beams for a house and could see the...

I feel that correct body alinement to the path of the cue ball is the most important part of being able to deliver a straight stroke. That is the biggest problem I see with the CTE method. All that pivoting and calculating. Way too complicated. No real target. "Accum's Razor" says it best...

If I can make it to the Derby this year we can do anything you want. I don't care about the streaming one way or the other. You are also welcome to come here at any time to play. I too have a Diamond Pro. Bill S.

I'm going to accept JBs' offer to shoot shots at $1000 per shot with Stan at the Diamond Tournament. Table to be decided at random. Format to be decided. I don't care what shot. They are all the same to me. The only proviso I have is that we shoot at least 100 shots. Who wouldn't want to...