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Here's what I came up with, a simple search: Purple is not a single, pure spectral color, which means there isn't one specific wavelength of light that our eyes perceive as purple. Instead, it's a non-spectral color, a psychological creation of the brain that occurs when our eyes detect both...

Well, you're right, my brain creates scenes. But when I just let my brain do it on its own, it goes back to my high school girlfriend, Becky Easyscore. I'll have to give your search suggest a look, though I still think colors are primary or mixtures. Anyhow, my purple shirt is having second...

It's Cortland, not Courtland. And yes, the Blue Mountain light green spec linen was a very good match for someone wanting the look and feel of Cortland. As far a wax goes, it wears off in no time. After that, it's up to your hands to give it that right feel.

Well, most sources do say that purple is a secondary color, combining the primary colors red and blue. Others say more like combining magenta with cyan and black. But we may be getting into other secondary colors there. I'm not sure that a color can be created with just a trick. But I will...

Well, cloth is changed in pool rooms much more often today than it used to be. Cloth used to stay on tables several years. Room owners didn't have money to throw away in the 70s. Now, cloth gets changed more often, so the fading change from green to blue may not be seen as much. Also...

Nerd moment continuing. You're right, purple is a mixture. You know something else? Remember the green Brunsco cloth on the old pool tables turning blue over time? Well, Green is a mixture of blue and yellow. My theory was that over time, under the lights, both would fade a bit, and the...

Yeah, there was a recent time period when Southwest was not doing ebony. And if Southwest wasn't doing it, it was serious. That's over, as I understand Southwest is doing ebony cues again. It shows that both dyes and woods have ways of coming in and out. The smart guys are the ones who buy a...

You're welcome. The dye industry is crazy, isn't it? For some time, the purple dye was unobtanium. Reminds me of what was it, red dye 9 or red dye 29, something like that? Unavailable for some time. Doesn't only go for dyes. About 1993, Rosewood was nowhere to be found. Available later...

If you have patience and skill, you can turn a regular white with green strand wrap into looking like Cortland. Both patience and skill. One without the other doesn't cut it.

Seems like a fair tradeoff to me, as far as the bike goes.

Not only that, but you can play with another one, and it won't complain. You can watch tv, and leave the toilet seat up, and it won't complain. And, best thing, it doesn't take the remote away from you!

It's also missing the purple outer veneer. In all the years that Titlist's were made, the purple dye was available. There was a problem with it about 1990, unavailable. Probably caused cancer. It was brought back though. You can have a cuemaker do Titlist veneer colors today.

Doc, when you buy the house, you buy the farm.

Yeah, kinda like that. Sort of like bubble wrap crackling under pressure. Very reassuring sound.

No, just sticky noises. Leather glove against very tacky grips. You can hear it a half mile away. Good grip though. Not sure that would be desirable on a cue, although the finishing determines that.

I have those on a set of golf irons. Very, very tacky. No, not taste, I mean feel. When I move them around in my gloved hand, guys two fairways over can hear it.

I never said it's a fake anything. It's a very common design. I think about every cuemaker has made a similar box style buttsleeve like this. It just doesn't look like Richard's work. But, enjoy it, whatever it is. Any pictures of the ferrules, or the bumper? Those are very important.

I understand it means a lot to you, but too many things wrong. Black didn't treat the insides of the buttplate that way. Black would never have shaft collar rings that uneven. Black's points came together closer at the wrap. Just too many things.

Yep, you actually don't need a lathe to wrap a cue and finish it. It takes patience and elbow grease.

It could be fun. Actually I turned a McDermott D-17 into the typical one that looked like Cortland wrap. Takes patience. Bleach with water, very slowly, not drenched, but lightly go over it with the AC or heat going, so it would dry. Over and over. Then, depending on the wrap either burnish...