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I'll just take on the second line. I'm a T.O.I. proponent and have been doing my own version of it for 17 years. (C.J.Wiley's version is much better) I find it to be highly effective, but if it doesn't work for you it doesn't work for you. When I was using my own version I use to go into slumps...

I don't have the equipment for pictures. It has 1 inch real slate, a wooden frame and the ball rolls very true. It's gone off level about 5 times over 42 years and I've had to go down there with a wrench and fix things. It was always very easy. I have simonis 760 on it and I was complaining in a...

The base is wood, Rick.

Wow! Only in the last month have I been able to hit the perfectly straight long shot with consistency. It's the last piece of the puzzle, the crossing of the "T," the dotting of the "i" in my ball pocketing adventure. Move the ball 1/4 inch to either side and I find it much easier.

Rick, What exactly is the AMF brand. I'll take a wild guess and say the M stands for Minnesota and the F stands for Fats.

Well; we're not looking to sell it. As I said, My Dad payed $600 dollars for it and bought it at a dealership that sold these tables exclusively. Adjusted for the rate of inflation $600 is equivalent to $3460 dollars today. You can't buy a gold crown with that today but you can definitely buy a...

You don't get it. This is a high quality table; maybe not quite as high as the Brunswick "strictly play" tables from that era but still high quality. When they went out of business, obviously a completely different manufacturer bought the rights to the name and started making department store...

I posted this in the equipment forum a few days ago. it's gotten 75 views and 0 replies, so I'll post it here. I mentioned in a post that I play on a 1971 Minnesota Fats table. Not everyone was impressed. Seems from the 70's and still today, Fats tables were and are sold in department stores...

C.J., As long as West Point brought up your match with Mizerak...I saw it somewhere about a year ago. The cue ball is maybe 8 inches from the short head rail and near the middle of the table. The object ball is half way between the cue ball and the corner pocket. It was not a big cut. The...

Rick, Sounds good to me.......I didn't realize I was talking to a couple of baseball swing experts with you and Mike. As I said previously, Stephen J. Gould was a scientist, an evolution expert, and also a huge baseball fan. He wrote a book called "Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A life long...

Rick, Stephen J.Gould, while being an evolutionary biologist, was also big baseball fan. He did studies of persons in sports, science the arts, etc. whose achievements dwarfed those of their contemporaries. This occured much more often in the past than in the present for reasons I'll get to...

Stephen. J. Gould was a Harvard scientist and expert in evolution. He died several years ago. I heard him talk once about Babe Ruth and how when he was hitting all those home runs, frequently the guy who hit the second most home runs in a particular season didn't even come close to Babe's total...

Interesting. I'll abide by your suggestions. Thanks.

I've told people in these forums that I have a 1971 Minnesota Fats table and they're not impressed. Seems these days tables named after Fats are sold mostly in department stores and the most expensive one goes for $1300. The one I play on my dad bought in 1971 at a dealership that sold Fats...

Alright. I just talked to my dad. We definitely did buy The Minnesota Fats pool table at one of their dealerships. He paid $600 for it in 1971.That would be $3,460 today. He said he's pretty sure they went out of business, but obviously someone ended up with the rights to the name. I installed...

Sure. It has real slate. If they're sold at Sears and Walmart today for $1200 max that means Minnesota fats tables today are totally different from what they were in 1971. We bought this at a dealership that sold Fats tables exclusively. Schwinn bicycles are still sold today, but the Schwinn...

My dad payed $650 for it back in 1971. That translates to $3750 dollars now. Nevertheless, if you are critical of Minnesota Fats tables I would appreciate any input you could provide and would not be the least bit offended. Please elaborate.

Ughh, well; all my life I've had this affliction. I can't do anything about it. The best way I can explain it is ...when I was in school and other kids would try to get my attention, they would do it by saying things to me like, "Elroy, this is mission control. come in Elroy. This is earth...

Lots of interesting input. Thanks everyone. Although Tony in M.D, I did prefer your first post to your second.:D

I'm having problems miscueing on my draw shots. I've been drawing foe 42 years. I know how it's done. This miscueing started about about a year ago when I bought a few new cues that were of much better quality than what I had been using. I've been thinking maybe the tips were too hard, then I...