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You can't spend that here!

For stuff of the same kind of vintage, keep an eye on ebay and facebook marketplace, over the course of a couple of months, and you might find interesting stuff comes up occasionally. I guess you could look into antiques markets too...

I'm 90% sure I have some joint protectors that I got with my old custom Peradon 2-piece. (It was either that cue or a crap production cue that tried to dress itself up as more, that I bought when I was young and naive.) But I agree they're basically pointless.

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Ironically, if Tiffany sold those cues separately (that come with the table), or a similar branded design, I could see them shifting a few. They might be hitting a price range that people were willing to pay for high-end cues (albeit of better quality), so it wouldn't look quite so laughable.

For $200 you can have a sterling silver chalk holder (with tiffany blue chalk) that is variously described as a 'cue holder', a 'chalk holder', and a 'cue and chalk holder'. So they obviously have no idea what they're talking about.

He'd need to have found a previously unknown pocket on the snooker table for me to pay $400!

Playing in an inter-county team competition where you play multiple people from the other team one rack each, I broke and ran the best table of my life, with two big-gap combos, an OB carom to open a cluster, another cluster opened with the cue ball, and some intricate positional play. The guy...

You should see their Diamond table...

I'd agree with Greg. For thin approaches to middle pockets (where the OB starts close to the long rail), rounded jaws allow you a bigger margin for error, so are easier. (Technically, Mike's right that it also depends on other variables - pocket size, how the slate is cut - but in practice, I...

I think Rambow is mentioned in Polsky's Hustlers, Beats and Others too, for helping Polsky with expert information. I'm impressed that the players were so particular in their requirements back then. All this fuss about tapers is clearly nothing new!

One of the very early billiards books that authors speak of with hushed reverence is John Dew's A Treatise on Billiards, sometimes referred to as The Odds At Billiards. In the digital age, most of these illusive works are out there to be found, and since I've just done so, I thought I'd share...

How many entries do they get now?

It is said that improvement feels like a sequence of long plateaus followed by apparent leaps of progress. If you aren't content to carry on along the plateaus, you get frustrated and this interferes with your progress. On the other hand, if you're genuinely not improving, that would feel like...

I am also not an instructor, but this relates to something I introduced into my own game, so I'll share. I made it a part of my shooting routine to focus on the movement of the cue until the end of the follow-through. (I did this for slightly different reasons to you, but I think it would have...

He does look pretty happy

I know this forum has some exceptional players, Fran (and possibly Imac) included. But most students, we're never going above shortstop level, and even that's a big ask for most. Seeking greater meaning in pool is madness anyway. But if the best you're going to get to is shortstop, there's not...

As a bit of a magic bulleter in the past, I'd say that when you really *want* to believe you've found the answer, you're very susceptible to anyone / anything that presents itself as an answer. I think the magic bulleter is looking for the fast improvement (s)he experienced as a beginner, and...

That feels really sad. I can't disagree, much as I would like to. Man's search for meaning moves along.

Frances Anderson would disagree...