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Good for you. Hope you had fun. Don't listen to the doom and gloom club. I can't wait for the bars and pool halls to open up around here. Your post gives me a little more hope.

It's just another pool myth. I know a guy here in Phx that used to play on the tour, is still rated a 10 minus 1 (no idea what his Fargo is), and because of his strong Christian beliefs, has never gambled over a single game. You want to get better you just have to self-analyze your game and...

It's simply the cue that you have the most confidence in. I haven't owned as many cues as many on here (4 dozen or so), and certainly i haven't owned as many "high-end" custom cues as many, but I've played with some nice cues over the years. The three i keep coming back to, or have the most...

I hope they figure something out to grow the game. But until they can push the gambling part of the culture off into the weeds, it's probably not going to happen. In order to grow the game, you have to get the kids into the game early. To do that, you need the parents to be on board. It has...

So that makes 9-ball tic tac toe?

Uh, what are you talking about? Did I mention China in my post?

We play it fairly often around here. In fact, we usually play a modified version of the game, 'last pocket, back-8'. Never during a tournament, but casually at bars or among friends, after a tournament, whatever.

Sorry, but most of this is just incorrect. The fact of the matter is that the WHO told the U.S. that there was no danger of human-to-human transmission, and some other lies initially. In other words, they completely downplayed the dangers of this virus, so our government didn't have the...

As I understand it, here in AZ the last things they're going to allow to reopen are things like bars and pool halls, unfortunately. But the general public has gone almost full dipstick on this virus scare now, and it'll just about take a declaration that they've got some kind of 100% effective...

Just picked up this cue from NewSherriff. Looks better in person than in the pics. And it looked really good to me in the pics. Can't wait to shoot with it, which hopefully will be tomorrow night.

I said that I know something about how high quality products are made and what it takes to make them. And that usually to get the highest degree of performance and craftsmanship it takes a great craftsman, not a piece of high tech equipment. Now if cue-making is so different from most other...

No, you misunderstand me again, I've heard of Burton Spain, but I haven't seen one or played with one. And I wasn't sure exactly what Burton Spain's 'ranking' was in the world of cue-makers. just that he was supposed to be very good. And I did freely admit in my very first post in this thread...

Ok, then, a B. Spain. never played one or even saw one, I don't think, but were Spains considered the best playing cue at the time?

Maybe. Maybe not. Stradivarius instruments are unanimously considered the finest stringed instruments ever made, and were built back the 18th century, IIRC. No computers, no high tech CNC machinery, nothing. Just a craftsman whose instruments still can't be equaled, never mind surpassed...

I remember when they called Super Glue "magic." Or that epoxy that could bind metals together in a vacuum . . .

Hahaha. Tap out accepted.

I'm certain they can. I've owned several Pechauers over the last 30 odd years. Always liked Peaches.

I'll give you yet another example. There are literally dozens of companies that make the 1911 design pistol, most made by the large companies everyone's heard of, such as Colt, S&W, SIG, Springfield Armory, etc. And they all produce 1911s of varying degrees of quality, and most of them are...

Of course. Just as building a Honda Civic requires human interaction or whatever. The question is what is the skill level of the human doing the work. Is that person a journeyman/apprentice level worker, or is he a master-class craftsman?

I agree with you. My point is that I can't think of a single performance-oriented product that doesn't benefit from more human interaction during production rather than less human interaction. Not one. Okay, maybe performance tires. I don't know if anyone is making tires largely by hand. But...