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You're absolutely right, Mark. Any TD that asks the forfeit winner to play the forfeit loser after the forfeit is official is unable to make a "tough" decision and stand by it. They are afraid of upsetting the violating player and are begging the non-violating player to help fix the "problem"...

Man, I tried reading Pleasures, but just couldn't get through it. Maybe that speaks toward my game. :) I've heard other people recommend The Inner Game of Tennis. I guess it's very applicable to pool.

Agreed. There are many tasks that anyone can do with a number of tools, and there are other tasks that are best performed by a specific person with a specific tool. IMHO, tips and ferrules are best performed by a cue repairman on a lathe. Yes, I am a little biased on this topic, but I truly...

I know a guy that has a couple 1st Gen 314 blanks. Well... he used to have some, and I doubt very much he's done anything with them. I can check if he's still got them if you're interested.

Nope, sorry. It doesn't matter when the foul occurs during the shot. Since he fouled, the entire shot is illegal. If the shot is illegal, he's not stripes. By your logic, if he made the stripe, but scratched, he'd still be stripes because he "legally" made the stripe before he scratched?

I finally got a definitive, documented VNEA rule about this situation. As posted on their website in the VNEA 2013 "Complete Tournament Details" in the bottom right corner of page 4: "Scoring: If a game ends without a group of balls being legally determined, the winner receives ten points and...

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” - Ernest Hemingway Kinda works for pool players, too. :wink:

Unless there's something new, I highly doubt it. Theses rumors keep going around, but just won't die. Do a search for other threads on this subject.

What happened to the $100 Black Heart tip? Wasn't it called the XO? I wanted to get one last year, but I bought a car instead. :wink: But, never mind that. The Black Heart Mediumistic tip is all any player should ever need. According to their website it has "Porosity Technological Advancements...

It's a good thing you want input cuz you're going to get a million different responses. :) Sorry to hear you had a couple bad experiences with layered tips. In my experiences, many layered tips are excellent and (IMHO) much better than solid tips. I personally prefer Moori's, but Kamui makes...

I've heard many people say that in the "8-ball pocketed before groups are established" situation, VNEA rules state that the loser gets the lower point total. If that truly is the rule, I've never seen it in print. I went through the VNEA rule book, but couldn't find it. If you can, please show...

There are a lot of off-white plastics, but the one that probably looks the most like ivory is Elforyn (There are 2 varieties of Elforyn: one is snow white, one is off-white with streaks of tan in it to look like the grain in ivory.). I don't know you, and I'm not accusing you of it, but the way...

You got that right! Consider this scenario: The breaker needs 2 points to win. On the break, he makes 2 solids and 1 stripe. He shoots in a stripe, but also pockets the 8. Does he win? No, the game score is 10-0 because groups haven't been established. There will always be those people that...

The backer is putting up the money, so the horse has nothing to lose but free money. I think any split favoring the backer (60/40, etc) is fair. If the horse doesn't like it, he can find another backer. Then again, if the horse *never* loses, maybe a friendlier split is in order. As far as...

He does not get credit for the stripes because he didn't establish groups. This is one of those situations that some people insist on saying "yeah, he fouled and lost the game, but he should get some points." Why? He didn't legally establish groups, period. How about this: he makes a stripe on...

If you're dumb enough to try to hit a cop in the head with a pool cue, you deserve to be shot. Cops are trained to shoot at "center mass", which is the chest and gut. It's not like the movies where the good guy shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand. It's easy to shoot at a paper target. It's...

Fair enough. Everybody's entitled to a bad day every now and then. For my part, sorry for being such a smart-aleck. Sometimes I just can't help it.

The reason your Radial shafts screw onto your Radial pin very tightly is most likely because the shafts were tapped with the undersized Radial tap to specifically create a tight joint. The reason the Wavy shaft screwed onto your Radial pin with difficulty is because your Radial pin was...

D-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-n-g! Look at you. Dropping book names. Using fancy words. Geez, you must be reeel smart! How dare I think I could joke around with my fellow cue makers in the "Ask the Cuemaker" section? Especially when faced with such ultra-high-tech concepts that are clearly beyond me. If you...

There's not much you can do when one of the laminate glue layers fail internally. There's a good chance that's a manufacturing defect, especially if there's two different material layers as you describe (grey layer is different than the tip layers, right?) When you trim the side of the tip...