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What do you mean by a "one-hander"? As in a one-handed shot?

It's a traditional holdover to when maces were used to shunt balls on tables. It's also useful to have a place to feel to orient the cue every time playing a shot, and it's a handy spot for the maker's badge.

I'd hazard a guess and say repairs, too, but it also could be decorative. It's unusual, though. I've seen additional wood being spliced onto hand-spliced snooker cues for additional length, but this is the first I'm seeing of a machine-spliced cue with additional splicing.

I don't play American pool, but I don't recall having seen a break cue heavier than a playing cue in English pool. My playing cue is 17oz and my break cue is 16oz. I've seen them go down to 12oz.

For the 8 ball going down on a break and winning, I think Ultimate Pool came up with that and calls it a "Golden Break" (or the alternative name of a "Golden Duck", which is strange). I'm not well-versed on the international rules that UP uses, but I know the whole colour nomination applies to...

Fargo ratings don't exist for English pool, unfortunately, but I've seen one or two YouTube streams using a category system. There are only two professional rulesets for English pool, so there can't be that much variation.

I've seen a lot of people on TSF using them for their snooker and English pool cues. Haven't tried them myself as I've always stuck with Elks and Elk Pros in the past.

It's a shame that I haven't seen pouches available on any American pool site I've been on. I'll never go back to magnetic holders.

You don't need to be a cue maker to fit a tip perfectly.

Glad to hear it. I picked up mine from Woods Cues in China. It's not as wide as the Peradon ones, and I prefer the slimmer profile.

I've never had an issue with chalk messing up the pouch. I use green Master for my break cue that I keep in my pouch, which is pretty pasty compared to green Triangle. For my playing cue, I use Taom and keep it in my small front pocket.

Green Baize offer a selection of chalk pouches in different brands and colours. As far as I know, they ship to the US.

Never liked magnetic holders. The magnets are hit and miss, the constant magnet snap annoys me, and you don't need to attach anything to your chalk with a pouch.

My English pool cue is 57". I opted for a 6" mini butt to go with it, but I think it's a tad too long for my preference. I have my eye on a 3" one that fits the joint in the butt of my cue, so I think I'll pull the trigger and pick it up.

Those Peradon pouches are fantastic. I have something similar that I picked up from a Chinese site.

They do offer a cube option. The Ding Junhui edition is made in Finland by Taom: https://greenbaize.com/accessories/chalk.html It's just unfortunate that it's not available through them directly.

The Taom MaxRack for 2" English pool balls.

The majority of black fibre ferrules I've seen have been on break cues for English pool and Chinese eight-ball cues. Mike Wooldridge also has his BlackSpin ferrule. I've never seen them on American pool cues, though.

Potting down cushions definitely takes getting used to. A touch of outside spin tends to help, but good luck bashing a ball down the cushion, because it's just going to rattle in the jaws the vast majority of the time. Going back to English pool after playing American pool from time to time...

Kind of begs the question as though why they release different colours, along with "pool" and "snooker" versions. I've seen snooker players using Pyro on the green cloth and American pool players using V10 on the worsted cloth. Can any of them be used in any cue sport? The blue 2.0 for English...