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If I was talking to a total newbie, I would say "get a SHOWN cue", because chances are if he saw the word "Schon" he might figure it out, and that's how most people pronounce it anyway. If I said whatever the german pronunciation is, he may never figure it out when reading "Schon" and no one...

Pool in general(not all pool games, of course)is the only game that allows a participant to reimagine the playing field, therefore it is the most creative. You know, like curling. :wink: However, I can't think of another game where it's own participants carry such ambivalent feelings about it.

It's just an avatar intended to make your eyes go batty.:wink:

Absolutely ZERO affect on his cues. He deals with rich clientele/ they don't care about situations like this contest. But as I recall, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, his cues hit a ceiling several years ago. Most times when it's known that a cuemaker is retiring the value goes up. He's...

Thx for the clarification about what went on. Regardless though, the thrust of my point remains. Had I known about this 'contest" I would've never wasted my time. There is no timetable with cuemakers, and major cuemakers have other things to do. A contest winner will always be pushed back in...

Just call it "schwinn", like the bike. "Excuse me, do you sell Schwinn Cues?"

"Nice post"

iba, do what your kind heart desires, but it's such an inappropriate expense it's almost unfathomable. But getting back to the genesis of this thread, I'd like to mention a few things. Does anyone know how notoriously irresponsible cue makers can be. Now before any cue makers here unload on...

The dichotomy of pool and energetic crowds make such a pairing mutually exclusive. But I want to know where the dude in your avatar got his pool cue

So did this mhaimi guy give Stroud anything or what, or did he just win a contest? Did he put up money to enter this contest? And is the OP, iba, serious or what???

The only thing I like about drop pockets is the sound of the padded click when the balls drop. The con is if you play 14.1, you're always moving balls from one pocket to another and it breaks the rhythm.

Switch teams! You are clearly of a different mindset regarding your approach to the game.

That's the word.:smile::smile::smile:

Webb makes a nice cue

Every great shotmaker has some degree of position play. If he knows how to pocket a ball in a variety of ways, he has an innate sense of what the cueball will do. He may not be as accurate with his position play as others, but he still has it. I think however, these shotmakers are not good at...

Here's a weird thing that you see in heavily populated hispanic areas in the states. In LA, et al, you sometimes have your american newscasters with hispanic parentage. They read off the news blah blah blah like normal, and when they come to a hispanic word they do the correct pronunciation...

A great "shotmaker" makes great shots. No matter how good his position play he will always encounter difficult shots. ergo, pocketing them makes him a great shotmaker.

There is no one answer. Maybe he saw the name on a wall and like it's "look". Maybe it's a family name, however I know and I'm sure many people know of families who have americanized the pronunciation of their surnames. It is not uncommon. However you missed on the analogy. If I were in Spain...

It's a convoluted contraption and funny looking as hell, but the idea seems okay. I think they reduced the larger cubed surface to this smaller lipstick version in order to eliminate waste. Look at all the used chalk and all that waste because people chalk up by twisting the cuetip down the core...

This is silly. You pronounce it the way everyone would recognize it. We speak US english here and Schon is a US cue-making company. I had a friend who sat at a diner and asked for a gyro, pronounced yearoh, and the waiter didn't know wtf he was talking about.:D:D:D