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Yes, he had perfect speed control, I will have to find a program or app to diagram a shot where he turned a normal safety into a great safety. Basically he kept leaving the cue ball where I had no way to play safe.

In the mid to late 1980s I met Frank van den Bosch who opened the Billiard Cafe in Chicago after a dispute with the owner of Chris's Billiards. Frank said while Efren was practicing he over heard a bunch of Filipino kids talking about the money they lost. Efren asked who did they lose the money...

I just updated my post.

I agree there should be a place to tell stories about Efren. “Players” was a pool room in Van Nuys which is about 12 miles from Downtown Los Angeles. I was in the room because Efren was scheduled to play someone, sorry I do not remember his opponent, One Pocket. Efren was there and the room...

Ernie is still with us and when I visited his shop about six months ago he was still making cues.

RIP Bill I was lucky enough to get a cue from Bill, please see pictures. I never played with the cue and I remember getting two shafts with the cue but I can only find one shaft. Getting old is tough.

When Flyboy's heard his good friend Lambert, sorry I do not remember his last name, opened Lambert's RBD, Fly put out the word that he would play anyone as long as they bet at least $10,000. Over night Lambert's became the best place to play pool for money in the U.S. I visited the room five...

I would also like to know what are are the best choices for tips. When I was playing I liked a medium hard tip.

I have not removed the bumper because the hole on the bottom is so small I can't see if it is a Phillips or Allen head screw. I do not what to make a mistake and ruin whatever is holding the bumper in place.

I I have bought most of my cues because of the way they look but I have bought cues because I liked the way they "Played". I liked two things about the cues I played with, first the way it feels when I hit the cue ball and second the most important thing is the cue ball hits where I was...

That is correct Tad did not engrave his logo on his cues when he was on Washington Boulevard but I took the cue to him when he was in Stanton and he added his logo for me. I think I explained the logo somewhere on the internet. When I bought this cue I do not remember anyone using a logo but I...

The best pool player in Los Angeles in the 1980s after Keith McCredy was Hawaiian Brain Hashimoto. The one thing they had in common is neither one ever practiced. I asked Brian when he started playing pool. I seem to remember he said he picked up a cue stick when he was 15 or 16 and no one had...

Chuck no longer sells maple for cues.

Yes, the UP or Upper Peninsula looks like an odd shaped island above Michigan has been and hopefully will continue to be a great place to find hard maple which grows on a narrow strip of land on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian border between the Midwest and the East Coast. Too far West the...

The maple in your picture looks very dense but cue makers are also looking for is straight grain. When looking down the shaft they would like to see the layers of growth rings to run parallel down the length of the shaft. I am not sure if color is important now as it was in the 1980s everyone...

Thank you, I will make the correction.

Not sure if this message is for me, I did not post anything about 7 months.

I mentioned this earlier. When I checked out a set of balls I would put the cue ball between two object balls then place the flat part of a wood triangle on top of the three balls and the cue ball was always smaller than the object balls. This is an easy test to try the next time you are in a...

I bought this cue from Tad when he was still making cues in the back of a pool room on Washington Boulevard just West of Western Avenue in Los Angeles. It was the most expensive cue Tad made at the time and I never used used the cue. The cue has been sold, I will delete this post when we...

Yes, once the law or the government has anything you own you have almost no chance of getting it back. A lawyer helped me write letters to Fish and Game and I am sure Ernie said the cue belonged to a customer and I seem to remember it took 10 or 11 months to get it back.