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Ditto. When your choices are playing at a bar full of drunk, noisy kids, or at a "Family Fun Center" full of half-drunk mothers with noisy kids, the home table is the only way to go, as far as I'm concerned. I don't consider these places pool halls, and won't go near them.

I would like to add my agreement with Mark's post, as well as with knifemaker's and kyo1128's praise of Paul Sumrall's cues. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Doug Patrick. Besides being a nice guy to deal with, he makes absolutely beautiful, great hitting cues at fair prices. I have a total of...

Simple answer. There are no pool halls in town. So, home table or no table.

That's a very nice Capone. Last year, I picked up a Whitten case with the Capone logo, planning on buying something exactly like this to fill it. If I hadn't bought three cues the last week of August, I could wipe the dust of the Capone case for this. I would wish you luck with your sale (it's...

Twins! Every man's dream.:rolleyes: Those are sweet.

Great idea. I have a friend who installs carpet, so I'll have him recover my table next time, instead of having Donny drive all the way up from LA. :grin:

Pool really is bad for your health. Fifty years of playing pool has made me lose my hair; I've had to start wearing glasses; and I've gotten all wrinkly.

Midstroke, you're right. And it looks even better in the California sun. The sapele looks like a holograph. Outstanding!

Nice room, John, and welcome home. I love the Indian standing in front of the door like that. Looks like he's saying something like, "Didn't you forget to pay somebody?"

A little Manila Rum and some San Miguel should put you in top form, Jay. :smile: Man, I get so jealous every time you post one of these Philipine adventures. Enjoy, buddy.

Loy, thanks for tip about the roughness of the elephant ear wrap. I'm expecting delivery of a cue any day now which has an elephant ear wrap. I've already got a callus on the inside of my index finger from a lizard wrap. Maybe I'll have to start wearing a glove on my non-bridge hand. :angry...

I shoot with either hand, so I guess I should hold the chalk with my teeth. Yeah, that sounds about right. :grin:

I'm in about the same spot you are, Dick. I've got a couple of boxes of Pentax bodies, lenses, filters, motor drive, etc., and a half dozen Victor spots out in the garage. I was given a nice Olympus digital camera a few years ago, and thought it would be a snap to transfer all my photographic...

That's obviously true. But if you don't provide the right colors in the source, even a properly-adjusted monitor will not provide a correct image. All the photographer can do is provide the best possible image.

One thing I have noticed in many of the cues posted (at least the ones I have bought) is that the colors in the pictures are not accurate. If you're using a digital camera, you want to adjust the white balance to get the correct colors in the picture.

According to a mold remidiation contractor who worked on my basement: NEVER use bleach on porous materials. Bleach can kill some types of mold on hard surfaces, but it is ineffective on porous surfaces. The components of the bleach that kill molds will not penetrate deeply into porous...

Hang the storm windows and put on your bee-keeper suits - it's gonna be a big wind!

Is this going to be another quiz without an answer? Tell us quickly; I may go watch my bumpers rust instead.

I got an 8-ball version of the Magic Rack a few months ago to protect the break area of the cloth on my home table. Many people use a break cloth to keep from wearing out the head string area, so I figured maybe the MBR would help prevent wearing out the foot spot area. And it works. There is no...

Before my Gold Crown was installed, I had the floors reinforced. The floor joists are 2x10, 12" on center. The added rigidity was very noticable even just walking across the room. The table has been in for a year now, and remains rock solid. It's probably best if you have the floor reinforced...