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IMO, ivory ferrules are the best material for appearance, hit, feel, acoustical sound and impervious to chalk stains. There are materials you can substitute but nothing matches ivory ferrules uniqueness that cue makers understand. However, pre-ban legal ivory already in the USA decades before...

Well, whomever he is has made a very handsome Kielwood shaft that I think would show much better with more lighting.

Absolutely…it is harder than maple wood, or seems so, and stiffer. I use Renaissance Wax & it comes out glossy smooth.

I know eight players that have switched from CF shafts to Kielwood shafts this year. Just like carbon fiber might not be for everyone, some may feel the same about KW. I don’t wear a glove, never have or ever will. The feel of the shaft movement across & thru my fingers in a closed and open...

It has b It has been said and written countless times throughout history that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Never has anything been more true and appplicable to so many things in life from artifacts, people & cues. Therein lies the rub because if this is literally and universally...

I bought a 58” Schmelke SP from Mike Moscini last year. I wanted a travel cue that I wouldn’t fret about if it was ever stolen or lost. However, I still needed a cue that felt and played acceptably. Much to my pleasant surprise, Schmelke more than passes the sniff test. A lot of cue makers...

I really do not using a bridge but on 9’ tables, unless your are 6’2” or taller, it becomes unavoidable at some point. None of my cues were built to accept an extension. I never ordered a cue built for an extension because a long time ago, I bought the 12” and 18” Tony Ryan oak extensions. I’ve...

I happen to think that while Dan Janes (RIP) was still at the helm, Joss Cues Custom Shop produced masterful cues equally comparable to any cue made by any of Dan’s peers. And Joss’s catalog cues had some very appealing designs. I happen to like Joss’s Color of Money Cue design and Chopdoc...

25-40%……..the 25% is if the cue is exceptionally handsome otherwise it is more like 35-40%.

Your dilemma is owning more cues than you have available time to play pool unless you just took the cue out for a quick test drive. That’s no where near as much fun as playing with it until after you drove a lot of laps with it and then switched cues.

In a fifth, there are 16.9 shots when it gets poured at 1.5 ozs. I was thinking of pony shots but since I’ve curtailed drinking, except for an occasional beer, my mind doesn’t relate mathematically to consumption of liquor. In reality, there is no bartender standard for a shot. It can be...

There are 25 shots in a 750 ml bottle of Macallan Scotch. The actual cost per shot is approximately $115. So how much will it be sold for? At least $200 a shot but probably more like $225. It makes the price of any pool cue seem reasonable because the next day you still own a pool cue after...

As I previously acknowledged, here is a photo of the short list of popular liquors being sold at Sierra Billiards. As you can see, booze is expensive and Sierra sells more than any bar in my town. They recycle 60 lbs. of glass every 7-10 days and it is all liquor bottles. Aluminum recycling...

It seems illogical to own a pool cue only to look at or admire. It is like having a collectible car and never driving it. So what do you do? Go to the garage and sit in it imagining what it would be like to own and drive it? Oh wait a minute. You already own it so do you just pretend to drive...

I have the Joe Porper dispenser……just a wee bit of corn starch is dispensed that can be precisely applied on the web between your fingers. There is so little required to deal with any moisture that it doesn’t get deposited on the cloth. It is actually pretty cool and highly functional. Applying...

The Schon cue Bob made for me weighs 20.4 ozs. and back in 1984, I had no idea what a cue should weigh. I just designed a cue by taking a little of this and that from different R-Series cues and had Bob build it for me. Then 20 years later I play with a cue with a completely different style...

This cue’s value lies somewhere between $4300 -$5300. Tad is a heralded name in cue making but that only goes so far in increasing the cue’s value. But just like anything, rarity and scarcity influence the level of buyers interest and selling price.

I like the suggestion but keep in mind after the running score goes above 15, it becomes self-evident what the scores are. And since a player knows if they are winning or losing, it’s easy to recognize your score from your opponent’s. I prefer the clean look without having to use a label maker...

I saw the flip scores but unless you want to flip the pages like at a grammar school volley ball game, it’s not for me. One thing in particular is important. For 14.1, it doesn’t let you keep 2 scores…..the current rack score & total score. You have to be able to balance the two scores for...

$40.00 + shipping……the phone app for keeping score is used in APA and other pool leagues. I wanted the nostalgia of manually keeping score and scoring beads aren’t used much as in the past because of pool room designs. Older pool rooms still use beads but more modern designs, like where I play...