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Just saw this. Precision scales to weigh tiny amounts are cheap now. I have found some I paid about twenty bucks for ten or fifteen years ago to be very repeatable and accurate according to test weights. I have had one set go bad since the nineties. Paid Dillon a hundred bucks for those. I was...

Have to admit few of my old gang are left. Even as a nonsmoker I am on borrowed time with COPD. Tobacco smoke gambling in the pool halls and bars almost nightly? Occupational hazards in the petro-chem plants and asbestos exposure doing mechanic work? I don't know. Perhaps all of the above! Hu

Worth noting that Buffalo's expansion, next door in the same building, is smoke free. I haven't been there yet so I can't comment on how free of smoke it is but by law it has to meet smoke free regulations I was told. The original area is grandfathered in and is a smoking allowed room. In my...

I had to genuinely laugh at your last line. I think we have all been there! Many years ago I played around with Freddy's book and Virtual Pool, two or three, I don't remember. I went to the pool hall and got on a blue label or upgraded red label nine foot Diamond. When banks came up I...

Never saw the movie, the book is handy. I don't care for pool instructional books in general that aren't spiral bound so they lay flat on the pool table though. If it was me I would just reorder the book. I suspect there is plenty of pool goodness in the disks and I know the book is worth the...

I have a cynergy shaft. Can't really say I like it or dislike it. It is 11.8 but gets thicker too quickly to suit me. I would like to have a shaft about ten mm in my bridge hand. If that meant a nine mm tip I could learn to live with it. I keep thinking that there is no reason a carbon fiber...

I have no explanation for the shaft breaking off. No apparent past damage or weakness and I saw the tap myself it was just enough to roll a ball from just outside the kitchen to the racking area. We have all done it thousands of times in all likelihood. I didn't want it done because it risked a...

The first CF shaft I hit with felt amazingly like a good wooden shaft. It is possible to make a nice hitting CF shaft. That isn't to say they all hit great and with some "life" to them, just that it isn't impossible. Unfortunately that is still my favorite CF shaft and it wouldn't fit my cue if...

Obviously you never shot with an early Meucci!(grin) After ten years of gambling nightly with house cues I purchased a new Meucci for fifty bucks from an old friend that got them as lagniappe when he purchased video machines. People would laugh when I would sling that thing in a corner midset...

I mentioned it, maybe in another thread. However, I don't think anyone is using freshly purchased wood. That will cause the increases due to imported wood to be a soft curve if they have to purchase from somewhere with increased tariffs. The increase in the cost of exotic woods will still be...

My old partner was a physicist and inventor holding over eighty patents. He has been dead a long time and his patents expired. I see things he invented being used now. I suspect you would have a hard time persuading him the butt didn't matter. The seventy-five cent question is how much does it...

The general thinking doesn't match the empirical data from long ago. I played pool with a 11mm tipped sixty inch twelve ounce snooker cue for awhile. That was my introduction to low deflection in the eighties. The first time I used a lot of sidespin on a table length shot, on a bar table, I...

I have family in Pensacola. I have to think it was a great place to grow up in back then. I remember when it was a quiet little town. Not the silly emoticon, I genuinely laughed out loud when I read of you flashing a handful of fives. Dad had a five hundred and a few thousands stashed when I...

Many years ago when it was the heart of TV's and PC's there wasn't a CRT made in the US! We had let corporations give away our high tech building it offshore too. Purest stupidity and shortsightedness on the part of our government. Very few left in government that remember WWII and how critical...

I agree with most of what you say. Pushed too many crews for other people and myself to not see the issues with a lot of the people working. I took over a crew, had a huge man on it. Top side of six-six, overweight, and the job involved climbing. The man brought a playmate full of food every day...

In the seventies and eighties my MO was to buy a beer when I walked into a place with a hundred dollar bill. I stuck the paper change in my t-shirt pocket after leaving a very generous tip. It was funny how often I was warned I was in a bad place to do that in! Meant I had to be extra careful...

A lot depends on the final hands building a cue. The exotic wood probably wasn't grown in America, some of the raw materials might have not been made in America, but custom cues are put together with care and precision. You get what you pay for and more. There are things like pins that can...

Top US custom builders learned better than to let players have cues on deals. Any time they got low on funds or went bust gambling the first thing to go was the cue! In the late seventies and early eighties I won enough cues to fill a closet. Some were supposed to be good cues. Every once in...

So much of production is based on NC that it is much easier to ramp up production than it once was. Stack raw material into the auto feed area, make sure there is enough room for the finished product to not pile up and cause issues, let er eat! An NC machine can run over twenty hours a day seven...

I rolled the dice for over a hundred thousand and years of my life when I started more than one small business. It did put money on a pool table in perspective. Looking for a road player I knew I was going to have to go outside my usual range but I wasn't worried, I was eager. Wasn't often I...