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I was being a bit silly I suppose. If you use a tool correctly you can use anything. With sandpaper I basically use it to remove chalk that has built up before the play session. I use V10 and I've never got it so scuffed that the tips not green. I just lightly lift the old chalk out and maybe...

I saw a guy quickly stabbing his tip slide off the leather and stab himself in the knuckle. It bled! 😅

Dang, that's beautiful. Congrats!

Could be any number of things. Your stick is going to the left after the hit. My guess is your arm is too far away from your body and you're tucking the stick toward you as you stroke/at follow through. You might be twisting your wrist. You might just be too far away from the stick, you might be...

You tease! Where's the rest of it? :D

I've bought all the "toys" and tools at one point or another. The best thing I've every used is a 1" square of about 220 grit sandpaper. It works better, isn't tearing the hell out of your tip and costs pennies. A 1" square of sandpaper is literally the best tip tool there is. Things like a...

Tuesday morning sucked bad, especially considering I work at 6AM.I'm too old for that shit! 🤕

I have a Rhino. It's a great shaft for the money. Really you can't even get a decent wood shaft for what it costs. Did it make me play better? No. But I like it, it's straight and smooth as could be. If it gets knocked over by some dumb ass it won't ding it. If I get rambunctious and ding it...

Yeah. You can do it with a dremel tool or similar. You don't want it where you can see it on the exposed pin. This is a screen grab of one in an A joint, those reliefs are fairly large and done with a cnc cutter: Here's one from a supplier...

Go on youtube and watch https://www.youtube.com/@therealkingcobra He talks about it and it's called indexing the cloth. I'd highly recommend watching all his stuff before attempting it. The Simonis DVDs are good too.

Glue relief channels cut into the side of the pin and not super thick epoxy. I've also heard somewhere you don't need an absolute ton of epoxy in there, you don't want tons of it pushing out and getting in/on the outer threads, just enough to get the job done. I heard you can use alcohol to...

Very nice, good job on the chamfer too. :)

I'd rather build cues but repair work allows me to buy supplies. I've repaired the pool hall's house cues for free. They are very poor quality and most were broke off 3-4" from the ferrule. It was great experience and only cost me $2-3 per cue but gave me a ton of experience on tennon/ferrule...

If he had a set he would go with the "hot" match. The "hot" still favors the better player. He ain't scuuuured is he? :p

Don't eat pickles and ice cream before bed, it'll give you weird dreams... or if you like that type of stuff go for it! ;)

Agree. Anything over about a $350 cue is just luxury, even that is more money invested than needed to play well. I'm sure with a McDermott Lucky line you could easily become a big fish in a small pond with practice and work ethic. It's nice to have/play with nice things. We have some collectors...

You go girl! ;) 900 × 696[/ISPOILER]

A grand is a pretty significant amount for me. I mean, it's not going to put me on the street or anything but I'm done with credit card debt. It might take me 3 or 4 months siphoning off funds to come up with that as "extra." At one time I would drop 3 grand on stuff and pay the CC bill. Never...

It would probably be tough to find an unmolested blank/original for that. A cuemaker isn't going to do all the work of a conversion to make $50 in the process. The cues are ever more expensive so unless you happen upon a bargain somewhere you will pay a premium. If I had a bunch on hand I...

That would be awesome. I also wouldn't mind a Wes Anderson pool movie. The scenery/backgrounds would be epic.