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With your pins having a glue relief channel/alignment barrel,take a CLOSE look at it and maybe you find tiny burrs? With a smooth barrel,maybe try hitting it real good with a piece of 80 grit emery,or a sharp mill file. Maybe there is stuff there,and scuffing up those smooth barrels to help the...

After a recent experiment,there isn't a whole lot of differece between the Tru-Oil and Boiled Linseed Oil. Tommy D.

I use adhesive backed 120 glued to a ground steel block to start,seal with Loctite Pro,then a couple swipes on 220 and wipe with denatured. Tommy D.

All of the times I've bought a single cue spool,I wound up with enough to make me believe each one might have enough left to do a 2nd cue,but haven't tried it. Tommy D.

I got used to playing in places where it was loud,and in SOME cases I prefer it that way. What used to really bother me was complete quiet,then the accidental clack of a beer bottle being dropped,or someone's shoes squeaking in the back. Foam earplugs stopped that. ALMOST any music is better...

With me it all depends on how things go when I get to the table the first time. If it's in a game format with an opponent of course there might not be a warmup. It happens. But,if I can hit balls until it's time to play,I use shot #1 from the Bert Kinister 60 Min Workout. I believe in it that...

When he was still coming into his own as a pro,I asked Justin Bergman about this and he said he beat the 9 ball ghost pretty regularly,but that the 10 ball ghost on a 9 ft Diamond was "still gambling" for him. This was 2002-3. I've won races against the 10 ball,but haven't beat it an 8 or 10...

My late father owned this one at one time,sent it with Bill Hoyt to have it worked on,and never saw it again,it disappeared out of his shop somehow. I saw it in 2000 in Dick Abbott's booth,until then unknown but ID'ed by Dick,but had no proof it was dad's other than I know details about it. I...

The old timer that first started showing me what he thought was proper maintenance,on the first "real" or expensive cue I was ever exposed to showed me this when I was in high school,in the form of a plain jane Meucci Original. They were just 125.00 then,and in that price range it was that,or...

To be honest,ANY workable variant of those mini lathes can be a powerful asset,esp if you get to start out with a new,tight one like the HF version. You will still have to put in the elbow grease and get it set up right. The one you show here,would be a HELL of a good start. That one is beefier...

Back in the day between Magoo's and the old Billiard Palace,Tulsa was one of the deepest places in America as far as the local talent pool,a couple dozen 700+ Fargos in those spots practically every night,and a few hundred that might not play that good but are smart AND would bet it up. Then...

Sucks those guys are quitting when they do such nice work. Tommy D.

After more experimenting with using this motor,I can honestly say that the top half of the RPM range is just overkill. I have it mounted on an aluminum plate that has a 90 degree bend in it,with some steel blocks bolted to it,and some L shaped steel brackets bolted down so it works kinda like...

It was way more common when ivory ferrules were the standard,and the pad started out as a way to protect those,with the original pad materials being an epoxy/cardboard mixture commonly called "fish paper" back in the day,and came in black or the reddish-brown stuff you see on Tascarella...

Yes,that exact motor will work right out of the box. However,there isn't a good foot controller option in the sense of using it for doing wraps for example,at least from what Chris told me. The foot controller that comes with this is meant to pull the lever down with a rod system,as the motor is...

I get good results with Minwax Polycrylic (water based,blue can) in Clear Satin thinned with HOT water not quite 50/50. It looks like watered down milk and is dead clear when dry. For all I know,it may be similar to identical to what Cue Components sells. Tommy D.

The worst one I ever spent money on was a "tip burnisher" to eliminate mushrooming that was basically a Delrin plastic sleeve that looked kinda like a joint protector,but was severely tapered on the inside. I cranked down on it too hard trying to get it to work right and twisted a relatively new...

He's been using the Consew 550W industrial sewing machine motor for 3 years or so now. That motor is available on eBay or Amazon. There is a question of what you need the motor to do. If you truly want variable speed,some of those motors have a clicker type switch that has a range of preset...

It would be awful hard to fuck with Buddy's reputation here,when he spotted Louie the 7 multiple times and got there,or the story the late Tom Ferry told here about how Mike Sigel and Larry Hubbart came thru St. Louis on the way to go play Buddy in Shreveport. He said he sent money with them to...

I was very impressed with what Nick Schulman brought to the table at the U.S. Open year. Another combo that is magic is Jeremy and Karl Boyes. Tommy D.