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I have a 9 foot table with pockets reduced to 4 3/8 in the corners and to 5+ on the sides. They were reduced many years ago with some very think pieces of facing material and it effects both the play of the facings as facings and the bounce off the rail when you miss your shot. I'd like to have...

I recently bought this cue: Denali PH breaker by QMAKER. It wasn't a custom order, I was just cruising around his site and spotted it. To what extend he takes custom orders should be discussed with him. At any rate, here's a quick review. The look is simple and clean. I like it and think it is a...

Fortunately this only happened on our practice table, so it didn't cause a "debate" in our match, but I'd still like to know what the right rule interpretation would have been for it. An object ball, neither the next consecutive ball nor the 9-ball, is hanging in a corner pocket. The next...

My new Scruggs arrived a few days ago. Please forgive the quality of the pictures, they don't do the cue justice. 4 coco points into birdsey with a slotted diamond and 2 dots in each point. 4 veneers clear maple, maroon, orange, and black leather wrap hoppe ring, bumperless coco buttsleeve with...

I post this inquiry on the "Talk To A Mechanic" forum too, but I thought I'd get a slightly different perspective here so I'm re-posting it. My table is in need of a recovering. I've always gone with Simonis 860, but the mechanic I'm talking to suggested Brunswick Centennial Cloth...

My table is in need of a recovering. I've always gone with Simonis 860, but the mechanic I'm talking to suggested Brunswick Centennial Cloth (http://www.brunswickbilliards.com/brunswick_collection/centennial_cloth/index.html. Does anyone have an opinion about this cloth and if so what is that...

It looks a lot better than my pictures, but here they are anyway. It plays great too as does every Webb I've tried. Sorry the pictures are so big, I couldn't figure out how to make them smaller.

Last night a strange thing happened in league. Our guy was breaking and lost hold of his cue. It followed the cueball down the table almost beating the cueball to the rack. It definitely effected the layout of the balls. What is the rule here? The 2 guys playing quickly decided to just rerack...

I started using a Kamui a couple of weeks ago just to give them a try. Last night I inadvertantly put my other shaft (the one I wanted to keep pristine, grrrrr) with the moori on my butt. I played with it for about 2-3 hours, before I looked at the tip and noticed the different sidewall color...

Took these pictures for another purpose, but thought I'd post them here. Cameron-Scruggs-Webb-Webb-Samsara-Diveney-Gilbert-Frey-Griffin-Weston-McDermott-Tucker. I'm not a photographer so don't expect too much.

... and this was offered by Plato before pool or billiards even existed. :) "The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort." - Plato. Makes me think of Buddy Hall.

This thread is prompted by the complaint thread about Ted Harris. Maybe we should mention a couple of professional cuemakers who do what they say when the say they'll do it. I'll mention a couple who's names will be recognized, I'm sure there are plenty more. Mike Webb Samsara Skip Weston Pat...

This league I play in has a lot of people in it that just don't know much about pool etiquette, for that matter neither does the management or the wait staff wondering around. Every week I put up with it and try to wait for people to stop chattering right next to me or get out of my line of...

Boy, if you look at the remaining players in the IPT tournament, it becomes pretty clear what country produces the best players in the world when the chips are down.

I recently noticed that on my table if I slow roll across the table the ball will roll away from the end rail. A slow roller going the long way appears to roll true. Of the three pieces of slate this the drift only occurs on the 2 pieces on the end, but not on the middle slate. My table only...

Joe, I thought this was the best place to get your attention. Check your PMs.

I just tried to go to www.accu-stats.com and didn't get in. Instead I got a screen stating their rights to accu-stats.com ran out 11-29 and they hadn't yet renewed. Does anybody know whether this indicates they are in financial trouble or only a bookkeeping snafu?

Just a test to look at my avatar.

The MUTE button on my remote. God they're awful.

These recent threads have me curious. I'm a leather wrap fan so I don't know much about linen wraps. What distinguishes Cortland wrap from other linen wraps, why is it so highly prized, and why is it scarce? Are there any other tidbits of linen wrap knowledge I might find interesting or should...