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I think it's a bit more extreme than a vacuum kiln. Enough to change the color of the wood... but not enough to cahr-broil it! The guitar necks Fender does is definitely darker than plain hard maple, and the spuce tops on acoustics a more golden hue.

Probably why a lot of crossover snookwr players are so successful at pool....

Just wondering if any builders out there has toyed with this idea? It's been done in industry as a form of fuel, and also to give wood greater stability, strength, and moisture resistance. Many guitar builders and manufacturers are using this technology to make more stiffer and resonant...

In two years, every company and their mother will have a rolled CF shaft, and they'll probably sit on shelves at $300 a pop.

I was never a big fan of Texas Express rules. I took a hiatus from playing, only to come back with the guy running the local tournament mentioning the new rules. It picked up the pace of the game. There were always great bankers, kickers, and safe makers. Efren was doing that masterfully...

That's not the same as layering unidirectional fabrics, which is totally diffrerent than injection molded. I also never said that there were any ceramic tennis rackets made by Dunlop - I was referring to baseball bats (which they make today of carbon fiber). Also the graphite Walmart cue was...

The thing is, you cheapen the value of the safety and position play by giving relative ease to the jump. Even most mediocre players with today's jump cue, nappy cloth, and very little practice can learn to jump, and control is basically having the cue ball land that it has stopped bouncing...

Well one thing that could be done is make it tougher to jump, i.e. use high-speed Simonis carom cloth which is super-slick. Allow jumping, but give it more risk so people don't just automatically reach for it when a snooker occurs. I think it would make at least close proximity jumping a bit...

I don't think so. Hard rock (eastern) maple goes for about $4.50/bf D4S (board-foot, dressed four sides), unsorted. So for a manufacturer that buys maple in bulk, uses a gang-saw to rip them down in 1" square blanks, that comes out to about 94 cents per blank. It doesn't have to be...

I don't think Captain Mingaud used chalk...

I think so.... 5-figure winnings 23 years in a row, 6-digure winnings for 6 years in a row, won all the megabucks events in that run.... and an all around nice guy to boot!

Not for nothing, but you think pool should be the game of affluent people, yet they should only buy a $500 cue? Whaaaaaaaa? Maybe it's your lack of certain skills that prevents you from taking advantage of the performance of a more expensive cue? Or maybe, it's the reason you are still...

Well what did she expect? Doesn't matter if it's a pool hall, bowling alley, race track, golf course, jai alai - there are degenerates everywhere. You got to separate the wheat from the chaff - and they were chaff! Having worked in both a pool hall and bowling alley, it's amazing how similar...

I'm an OK but not a great jumper. I will, however, jump over the edge of an interfering ball when I have no room otherwise, and I don't want to or can't masse the cue ball or throw the object ball and get some kind of position, or plan some type of safe if I fail. Plus if the cue ball is not...

There you go - follow the money! The same casinos that once hosted and sponsored pool tournaments found out they get better revenue from hosting Texas Hold'Em! The purse for one of these events is larger than the purse for the entire year for probably all the pro tours combined. I live in a...

Sure it could definitely taper in thickness. Most golf shafts are opposite - the wall thicknesses taper toward the handle usually. I think the foam core could actually exacerbate the problem. Without a core, the tube would flex somewhat and absorb the impact. Since there was a core, there...

Easiest way without changing electronics is get a different pulley set.

CF is so strong, especially in compression, that if they made the walls thicker it would feel like you were stroking a 2 x 4 (and start to weigh as much). If you bent such CF tube with no foam core, it would ovalize as it bent, The foam core prevents that ovalizing, which gives it greater...

I'm sure you're a pro, that's why you can make such statement? I remember the Earl ad where he got $100k or something for running 11 racks, with a $99 CueTec... Sure it can happen, but that's Earl. I always wonder however, how true that is. You think Tiger Woods played with the same Nike...

It's very possible the CF was pultruded, not table-rolled as most golf shafts, or interweaved, like some others. Regardless, golf shafts ha1ve CF sheets with different layers, each layer going in a different direction. Pool shafts don't need to withstand 127mph clubhead speed (Bubby Watson)...