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I was having trouble doing draw shots, often they would look like stop shots. Ive been lining up all the balls down the center of the table and popping them into the side pocket with a bit of backspin , trying to run them all out and using backspin to locate my position for the next and next...

it happens in a lot of sports. the sport itself is fun, then people take it all way too seriously and it turns into a bunch of BS.

I thought people played 8 and 9 ball so they didn't need to learn to do addition.. ;-) I got beat by a couple of women last friday, I might have even secretly enjoyed it.. ;-) I liked that it made them smile.

if the CB is frozen to a red, in snooker, we will normally call it and have the opponent agree if it is in fact frozen or just close. If it is agreed to be frozen the shooter can shoot away, this gives a great option to hook as it is considered that it has already contacted the red, so they...

I would not have thought of maple as an "exotic wood" and while the flaws in maple can be quite beautiful. I was a bit surprised to see a knot in the butt of the cue in their own logo. maybe there are different species of maple but Ive never heard of a "hard rock maple" as being a species...

makes me wonder if teeth may be harder than bone or antlers. then what animal would have large enough teeth to make ferrules from. cows maybe? I bet all that goes into some process, like making fertilizer or dog food.

reminds me of my mom, she was into txtiles and weaving so my dad cut a bunch of antlers down on the tablesaw. she'd dye them to match the garments she made from wool and use them for buttons, and they looked nice.. but wow the stink! it just made me think of dead bodies burning, It made me...

any identifiers on the underside of the slate?, a sticker maybe?

not only angles but we can go into all kinds of calculated data to figure out the speed of each ball , and factor in the cut angle and top bottom, left and right.. You will need that to accurately place the cue ball where you want it.. I think we learn more by trial and error actually, but...

watching a number of videos can help , it can also make you all confused.. I to just try and focus upon the CB / cue relationship to make sure I'm targeting the CB with what I feel is the right amount of top/ bottom and left or right for the shot and that requires some experience and most of...

sure insruction helps.. this video makes some good points that are related. you can look up "half ball shots" and practice them.. you can put a ball in the center of the table, try to cut it in the side pocket, challenge yourself to see just how fine you can cut the ball.. who cares what...

thats just a small crack but sometimes Ill have an odd shaped piece of an antique like a chunk missing, so I will mix in wood dust.. I'll put as much as can absorb, around half dust to half epoxy, then fill with that. in the case of the small crack there is not enough gap to warrant adding...

Ive used them lots for setting up machinery , printing presses. They come on the back of a semi in units. one or two on a lowbed.. they are heavy things.. a press may have up to about 10 units or so coupled together. the geartrain is all helical cut gears that run in an oilbath, and the...

"The flaw sucks, but I am practicing, and I was planning on keeping it for myself anyway, so I will have to deal with it. The crack isn’t compromising the structural integrity, so I am going to finish it and see how it comes out." - dear old dad always said " its not true that a true craftsman...

ok i see what you are saying now.. the butterfly is a lot more simple, so a lot easier ( and still hard) to adjust the fit, whereas on the full splice there are a lot of of surfaces mating that are all related, so adjusting that fit would be difficult at best.. much easier if the cuts...

I've noticed that on a few cues that came from production lines, that the point had been removed just very slightly, only enough so it didn't actually bottom there exactly at the point, but instead on the angled faces... I dont make cues but I was thinking that a carefully made guide jig...

if you spin it on a lathe or drill or something then use an angle grinder , dremil etc.. With a small stone you can turn rubber by grinding.. i have a tool post grinder on my lath for that and same goes to to turn hardened steel too. rubber won't play nicely at all with drill bits or...

It might be the case that if the threads are a sloppy fit it can still draw the parts together and your cue might have a "land" where the two pieces can mate and make it parallel despite a crude wobbly thread fit.. I'm not a cue maker, they know that stuff better.. something like an...

most threads are the regular , pretty standardized thread angle. If a manufacturer wanted to they could also modify the angle, they "might" do that to be unique and proprietary, I dont know how many do that. this page shows what i mean by the angle, In case it's not obvious...

just as a quick example, this set has the M10 but only in 1.5 not 2 mm pitch. I suspect many of the little sets do that.. so you can just order it ...