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Well, I broke Nine Ball and everything on the Bar Box for years with my JossWest with ivory ferrules without cracking anything. My shafts are now 29 years old and still solid along with the ferrules. Back in the day, we used very hard French leather tips and without super glue installation was a...

I too like traditional Bushka and Hoppe style cues. When I returned to pool after a 25 year sabatical I bought a Lucasi Bushka style cue from the Billiard Warehouse. It was a limited edition with a leather wrap, a white phenolic joint, and a radial pin. I paid $200 for it. I bought it to use...

I'm going to make a few admissions here. First of all I know women that can beat me on any given day. In most cases, I have to play sub-standard and they have to bring their "A" game, but not all. I normally know all the women in the state that play at that level. That being said, anyone can win...

The best bankers hit most shots very firmly. That is also recommended in the tapes by Bugs, Freddy, etc. In truth, you need to know what speed to choose to make certain banks in addition to the correct spin. Speed generally stiffens (shortens) the angle and rolling or shooting softly widens or...

I have to agree with the above statement in principal. I have bought and tested a lot of cues since my return to pool. I discovered that I like a big pin, wood to wood joint with a phenolic collar. I don't believe that anyone could tell the difference between a 3/8 X 11 and a 3/8 x 10, PROBABLY...

Hey Beav, I may be wrong but I think those cues are worth more to players wanting a good base cue to convert. Cuemakers will not pay retail normally. They need to find a bargain even if it means that the cue needs a little extra restoration. Their profit margin is too tight. As a player, I look...

Steve just gave you the straight dope Dennis, however I should tell you things are very slow around here right at the moment. We have a lot of players showing up tonight, 7/11/08, because Tony Chohan is putting on a Tourney this weekend at Oak Park Q with $2000 added. After that, who knows. Adam...

Wow ! That table is the nuts. All I need is a room to put it in. BUMP for my dream 14.1 table...Tom

I don't know a thing about Howards. Now you got me runnin' to see that cue Jeff :)). That Olney is a monster though, and anyone needing a 19 oz 6 pt cue would be sooooooo lucky to get it. It's perfect too, and that's why I'll guarantee it...Tom Ok, I saw it.

I have a stunning '07 Jeff Olney 6 pt cue that plays very much like a SW with two shafts. One shaft is a stiff hitting 13mm shaft with a LBM ferrule(Moori medium tip). The cue's points are 3 long cocobolo and 3 short ebony into a bem forend. 3/8 X 10 flat nosed brass pin, 19 oz and the shafts...

I think it's worth mentioning that it will be held at: Oak Park Q 23137 Coolidge near 9 Mile Rd. (in the strip mall behind Sahara Restaurant) Oak Park, Michigan

I was surprised when I came back to pool after 25 years to see ADAM cues. I wondered if it was the same company because in the 60s-70s we always called them ADAMS. Remember, there was no internet and you only saw cues at a pool room or billiard supply house. The house man at my home room called...

I'm no expert at this, and I'm no millionaire either. I can't do this as a little hobby. First of all, a player doesn't "let" you sponsor him. He looks for sponsors. Usually he can't find one. If I think a player has an excellent shot at the money, and I decide to sponsor him, my chances are...

I will say this in all honesty. Those cuemakers who get deeply involved in these backstabbing arguments between each other and about one another will never get an order from me. PERIOD ! Call me unreasonable...Tom

Of course the obvious reason is the tip coming off at the wrong time, but I always order one shaft at 12.75 mm with a pro taper as I prefer, and then let the cuemaker put his own taper on the other at about 13.15mm so a future buyer can retaper it to his specs if he doesn't like mine. I think...

I had dinner the other night with two cuemakers, one of whom is a dealer as well and he has had and sold many SW cues. One of the many questions I asked him was if the average buyer waiting for a SW cue, basically with no special connection, could expect a superlative pair of shafts. The answer...

I don't have a problem with "Hustlin" t-shirts. I wear my TAR and Beard shirts to league, but not a sideways hat :grin: . The behavior you see today is all across the board, not just at pool tourneys. We are becoming the laughingstock of the world. Our basic manners are similar to ghetto fast...

I was very hesitant to get involved in this, however I feel it is my moral responsibility to lend support when I can witness to something pertinant where someone else has gotten burned. Quite a while back I bought a few leather wraps from Wild West. Not too many. I think they were only $26 and...

Lisa's method is almost identical to mine, except I steam the dent for about 7-8 seconds directly from the teakettle. It's easy to lose track of the exact location of the ding so map that out carefully while the water is boiling. After steaming I dry the shaft with a microfiber towel. Next I use...

Absolutely. Stan's website is www.justcueit.com After 40 years of pool I learned from Stan that I was compensating for being cross-dominant with a little curve/glitch in my stroke. I learned that if I got as directly over the cue as I could, and stayed down through my finish, that I neutralized...