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  1. Paul Bell

    Tip life

    The Kamui Gator grip tool? Discontinued in 2025: _
  2. Paul Bell

    A Catalog of Common SCRATCHES, and How to Avoid Them

    I learn pool with mostly <=3-minute YouTube videos and revisiting those videos. I blame some of my wrong understanding to that for my thinking that the most common CB rebound is it moving tangent to the direction of object ball to pocket. I learned about avoiding scratches in this video but...
  3. Paul Bell

    Looking for a solid American cue

    Price? Looks nice.
  4. Paul Bell

    Looking for a solid American cue

    I prefer Viking's more-expensive Anthony "Two Feathers" Squadroni's
  5. Paul Bell

    which are the latest most popular cue tips?

    Absolutely. Here's her comments from her other video:
  6. Paul Bell

    which are the latest most popular cue tips?

    Mueller's sells Royal Oak cue tip for 75 cents. It is made from blends of oak-tanned leather, 14mm, hardness rating: Medium 66.5 Hmmm, its not in stock but on back order.
  7. Paul Bell

    Break tips.. whats good?

    Kamui has made chalk in beta versions 0.98 and 1.21. Their latest chalk is Roku: _
  8. Paul Bell

    Constant Tip Shaping is annoying!

    That was really just me guessing and presuming what was supposed to happen from using an ideal setup. No. I put that Time Crystal originally on my Rhino, but it came off. Its beyond me to put it back on to fit good. So, I put it on this 9mm CueSoul snooker cue that is, with an extension...
  9. Paul Bell

    Constant Tip Shaping is annoying!

    I used to shape every day because it helped and, since I have learned a few things, now for no good reason. I am waiting on tip wear so that I can install a Caiden Onyx, Taom Fusion, Ultraskin, ThePro (Milk dudded Le Pro), the only clicking tip---the Caiden Warrior, and BulletProof hard.
  10. Paul Bell

    Show off your Burl cues!!!

    Looks nice. Maybe you can group gnarly maples in with the fungal-damaged burl woods? As the Character Cues owner writes Burl grows where trees are attacked and suffer. The fungus that eats rotting wood leaves lines and colors behind. Suffering, death and decay become cue art...
  11. Paul Bell

    Bulletproof CF shaft.

    Bulletproof's website gives little info on its $200 CF shaft such as it is 30", it has pro taper, and its made of 15K filament weave. Thanks Mensabum! See below. Bulletproof sells a cue with a CF shaft for $250. Its described as AR-15 Carbon Fiber Break/Jump Cue and Playing Cues and is in...
  12. Paul Bell

    Break tips.. whats good?

    I would need to polish mine. Works fine and is the preferred tip for breaking here. That's not saying much, though --- this bunch wouldn't know a Samsara from a Sam Jones.
  13. Paul Bell

    The Best Advice You're Ever Likely To Get

    Are you serious? Was there leaded chalk long ago?
  14. Paul Bell

    The Best Advice You're Ever Likely To Get

    How about $25 a cube? This is more like a century old.
  15. Paul Bell

    Break tips.. whats good?

    Caiden Fenrir is a different kind of tip. To determine how good it is depends on whether its been installed in "Powerhouse", "Technician" or "Hybrid" modes. The tip sells for $45. Install its' black-side up to get Technician mode. Install its' black-side down to get Powerhouse mode...
  16. Paul Bell

    Break tips.. whats good?

    No solution here --- if you don't like the phenolic tip, you won't like the ferrule/tip phenolic combo:
  17. Paul Bell

    The Best Advice You're Ever Likely To Get

    Be hard on yourself for missing a shot only if you'd been reckless
  18. Paul Bell

    Shaf Drop Bouncing

    McDermott's marketing, players' reviews, and bounce tests indicate Defy trades energy transfer power for a different hit and sound than Revo type carbon-fiber shafts---many players claim a better hit and sound. I favor Bob Jewett's opinion about Defy not bouncing at...
  19. Paul Bell

    Shaf Drop Bouncing

    See post#16 for how McDermott made the Defy shaft less efficient energy transfer but with benefits of better hit and sound:
  20. Paul Bell

    ⚡Can AI summarize 361 days worth of used-cue eBay sales? ⚡

    CHATGPT FAILED but results could improve Without any great effort, the GrandWazoo used ChatGPT AI to summarize my eight-page list of eBay sold cues (Post #2). Although AI made a list of eBay sold cues and it correctly stated almost all sale and shipping charges, it had many errors: Although...
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