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Please accept my apologies, I'll keep looking for that cue with the solid laminated bamboo butt. Moving on now, Dale

bamboo cue The description I read of the cue in WTB/FS section: Chuck Starkey, bamboo ferrule cue desi2960 I quote "this cue is made from 8 piece maple pie shaped laminates both shaft and butt" Maybe it's a misprint ???? Dale

After shooting my mouth off on tonkin cane I checked out the bamboo cue thats turns out to be a laminated maple cue with a bamboo ferrule and some matching bamboo at the joint. Nice cue. Dale

bamboo FYI Fly rods are build from tonkin cane (bamboo), it is not solid but hollow. 3 to 5 inches in diameter with walls near 1/2 thick. Bamboo fly rods (tonkin cane) are made of 6 pieces of bamboo planed and glued together becoming hexagonal in shape and 7' or longer in length. Tonkin cane...

I agree, after 55 years of playing myself I'm trying to figure out how these aim systems allow for the applied english to reach the desired position for the next shot. Dale

Neils Willie played with much different equipment, especially the balls. Back then you got two cue balls when you rented a table, any game that required a hard break, you broke with the breaker cue ball and switched to the playing cue ball after the break. Those old pool balls were nothing like...

It's been along ago but I remember there was suppose to be prize thing. A new aluminum cue for best shooter in the league and I think a dinner & trophys for the winning team and top players. Cash payout ????? The guy who orginized the league, about 8/10 bars, 12 weeks long and we paid $3 a week...

8 ball rules IMHO, rules are for the purpose of making the game fair if are applied the same to all players. I started playing bar pool in 1963, at that time there were no bar table leagues. In about 1965 a played in the first bar league, I think, in Oakland, Ca. at THE RED VEST on E. 14 St...

black spots I have an older 9 ft brunswick made in 1969 with vinyl pockets. When I got the table it had been stored for quite awhile, after I set it up and began playing on it I experienced black spots on all the balls, I have Centenials, Blue Dot & Measel cue balls. I tried cleaning the...

An 1 1/8 inch is driving a lot of guys f#$%^&@G goofy. The more you practice the better you aim, system or NO SYSTEM. Dale

cheap, by the game anything else 3,4,5 ahead race to 5,7,11 or whatever can be decided by just one game Dale

How long 40 plus years, it still dead staight and you can't beat shafts that have been aged 40-50 years. It an 8 pt. Gina Ernie made in 64 or 65.

There's people who play pool and there's pool players. Dale

slip stroke I had the pleasure of watching Mosconi warm up for an exhibition game in the mid 60's and referee a straight pool game to 100 with a local and then do some trick shots, Willy run 91 and out off a safety. Doing trick shots, he shot the CB table length and jumped it off the end rail...

For me I miss easy shots when I forget, don't take the time, to look at the pocket opening before I shoot. Remember the pocket opening size changes depending on how close the OB is to a rail. Example; standard sized pocket openings are mostly about 5 inches wide but an OB froze to the rail...

Hearing Aid vs MP3 player If you turn your hearing aids down I would assume your listing to little or no sound maybe total silence. If your wearing mp3 head phones I would assume your listing to your favorite tunes and only blocking out certain sounds including the sound of silence. At the...

Denny S. I watch Denny play a lot of pay ball at Cockrans in the late 60's & early 70's, games when on for every it seemed like. You could leave come back the next night and the game would still be going. The games would 4,5,6 players or more. Dale

skid what the h--l is skid, i been playing this game for over 50 years and can't figure out what people mean by the term "skid". An ob reacts to both the english and speed of the cb on contact, which will throw the ob off course but the ob will still rotate. In my world an ob's reaction to the...

I've knew Cole when he was 14/15 yrs old, he was running triple digits in straight pool, Don't know if he did't like bank shots then or not but in 9 ball if he could see the ball he just cut in without touching a rail. Cole "the stroke" Dickson without a doubt !!!!!!! Dale

Widow Maker In the logging world especialy tree fallers, when they stick their chain saw into a tree to fall it and a great big 'limb' falls out of the tree lands on their head and kills them, that limb is called a Widow Maker. I don't have a clue what it refers to in regard to cue sticks...