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A favorite Yogi is mmmm? "You an observe a lot by watching." The Barry Hawkins vs Jack Lisowski match is lovely pots galore. What an educational entertainment. 🤷‍♂️ Wst.tv has it live and more in the archive. A no Brainerd. 🤷‍♂️

Little Johnny is bouncing, with hand raised. A question mark? Seriously advanced knowledge is that a tight rack is the hardest rack to break or brake. Or was that just a statement?

Note to self: 😉 It's the pea in the center of the cueball that gets my focus. Well that's when I get my best performance. Just caught the finish between John Higgins and Jack Lisowski. Wow! Whole E cow. The lesson is Huge!

I could make a shaft of knotty pine too. 🤷‍♂️ Ooops 😔 😉

19 ounces and ivory ferrule. The length was 58". A pro taper of the shaft was standard Joss. He went through 6 shafts to find a favorite. My touch wasn't quite as sensitive as Coles so his #6 shaft worked fine for me. Pretty sure that's the shaft my wife uses now. Roger made me the one that's...

It's not a show cue it's a working cue. The shaft with stitches in the ring came with my wife's Joss. The other shaft was made from a broken bar cue by Roger Petit. That's my playing shaft. The shaft is slightly fatter as I played a lot with the big cueball. Changing shafts would give a...

I would be remiss if I didn't point out John Higgins vs Youelong is up on wst.tv now. I know John's eye patern as it's revealed by his eyebrows. Youelong is unknown. Should be good.

I have been playing with my Joss (east) since the late 80s. Ivory ferrule and stainless joint along with the taper and weight to suite Cole Dixon. The Irish linen wrap got nicked and I removed it to find Coles name and date in ink under the wrap. Coles style led to him playing against his cue...

RULES??? As long as we are playing by the same rules and they don't change. My favorite discovery of local rules came playing at a work camp in Canada. The weekly tournament was free and first place got a t shirt. 🤷‍♂️ I shot a shot that made my ball in the side and pocketed my opponents...

Meucci then Joss were my favorite cues, because of the hit. The price reflected the ornamentation and not the quality. The Joss brand has gone through an evolution. The Joss in white letters is the older products. The JW in the butt was indication of hand crafted by Joss West. Bill Stroud was...

Well the 1991 Challenge of Champions was an event that had a casino booking bets and posting odds. The way the event concluded with Buddy Hall wearing the same expression as the guy that dumped the $64,000 question game show, was definitely a setback for the game of pool. Add the movie The...

Uh oh I have been triggered. I recall watching Cole shot a long straight 9 ball at warp speed, while looking into the eyes of the cute waitress. Oh yeah! SHE was impressed...he was hoping to get her undressed. 🤷‍♂️ 😉

The Thunder from Down Under is back....playing Jak.....Jones that is. Should be interesting. The Welsh Open is providing all kinds of knowledge.

Well Schmelke says it all. Theiy produced in numbers that had them going from the lumber pile to the mill then lathe in quick succession. Straight to assembly then finish with no seasoning along the way. A True Master like Bill Stroud seasons every step of the process. Kinda like a chef vs A...

Neil Robertson vs Hossein Vafaei is just getting started. Oh Boy! Could be a barn burner.

Cycling helps break down the natural tensions in the shaft relaxing the grain just like relaxing the brain. Ahhhhh Uhmmmmm

So a hinged case left open to display could lead to a shaft changing. All my cases have tubes. So vertical or upright is all the same. Keeps everything normal and protected.

Well, my expertise is wood. Baseball bats are made from splits. NOT lumber. The grain is critical in how the wood responds to changes in humidity. The density and size of the growth rings varies with the weather. Different species provides a hardness scale. The flexibility of maple vs the...

Pocket billiards is the niche sport. 🤷‍♂️ The success of snooker as a profession is Huge alongside the money that can be earned on a pool table. When a person proposed snooker, I knew what game, when they proposed pool, what's the game was my inquiry. 🤷‍♂️

Using triangle chalk and a hard le pro tip, I would get about 6 months before the tip was ready to be replaced. That was playing 7 days a week. 🤷‍♂️ The chalk is abrasive and the wear occurs when tip contacts the ball with the abrasive between. The application strokes wear it down as well.