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I have two tables a Gold crown 2 and an antique Saunier-Wilhelm. The S.W. is a T rail table and plays terrible. Some of those older tables are almost just decorator pieces. They really don't play that good. I've had the rails redone and whatever could be done to it and it is still just not a...

The big problem was they are usually used in guitar, banjo heads that are flat. A cue is round and the MOP is not that thick. Has to be installed perfect or it gets screwed up. When I got a pantograph I started buying MOP in small sheets that are thicker. I would cut out my own inlays. Mop it...

The ginacue I had was the 6th from the left this brochure

Dots were popular probably because they are so easy to do. Many inlays were not very well done. I had a Balabushka with a lot of mop dots and notched diamonds. A close examination showed they were not well done. Even early Joss cues you could see inlays poorly fitted with black tinted epoxy...

everybody years ago use those they were common inlay that could just be purchased from instrument manufacturers banjos guitars and so on. Nothing really special about them. https://motherofpearl.company/collections/inlay-markers If I remember right Balabushka made accordions and concertina's...

Contact Blatt Billiards just Google it.

It'd be fun to have Bob Jewett tell us about his experience being college champion. I know the college champion used to get free entry in the US Open.

That is one of the nice parts of playing pool. You can own a championship quality pool table in your home the same thing that would be played in tournaments all around the world. You can't own a tennis court you can't own a golf course if you like to play tennis or golf you can't own a bowling...

Times change and perception is reality. In those days men played in coats and ties. At the same time the flip side of that was the average place for pool was being played often pool rooms down an alley where they had no entryway from the main Street. I would say a very tiny percent of people...

You know they're used to even be a national college championship Nick Varner won it one year. I don't know if they still have college tournament pool anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACUI_Collegiate_Pocket_Billiards_National_Championship Check out past champions specifically 1975

Been done. There used to even be a boys club national champion. In the 70s I even taught a junior college course in pool held at a brunswick bowling alley. I think one of the biggest obstacles is access to the game. It is a big deal to have a home table and there are fewer places to play in...

When you say gambling as it applies to pool it is much different then say the sport of kings. It is thought of as hustling, cheating, sleaze back rooms and shady characters. It is a image that has been cultivated and the game is stuck with it. Derby city seems to like the image.

Just to add another wrinkle, Mosconi cup just took place and nobody knows that even happened except us. You're not going to see the results reported on your local or national news none of the players will be interviewed probably not even by their own hometown media.

I think pool is less a sport then it is a subculture. Within our own little world actually a lot is going on, but the outside world doesn't really know or care about it. YouTube is full of videos on pool. And when you look at them maybe they got a few thousand views. Meantime you click on a...

I was actually going to ask if they were selling alcohol at the M C. When I was at the Crucible for the snooker championships in England a larger portion of the crowd were drunk. There was even a fight a few rows away from me. One big Irish SOB even threw a beer at a bunch of people. In...

When I used to build cues and do repairs I often had players want thinner tips. I would not just take the tip down but had a jig for one of the lathes to slice a little off the back of the tip before installing it.

The camera work is pretty good with lots of close-ups. I keep noticing when they show their tips they are playing with tips that looked to be in many cases just a few millimeters thick. Used to be tips were commonly almost a quarter of an inch thick. Is this the new thing? They also seem to cue...

When I was growing up pool was $.60 an hour. How could say a kid who has a real interest learn today. Unless his dad owns the pool room who could they afford to play say 5 or 7 hours a day. He would have to spend hundreds of dollars a week just o practice. Other sports cost very little to learn...

I remember driving around with Strickland and I just came out and said, "Do you really like that cuetec cue you play with"? He said someday that will be what everyone is playing with. People used to laugh at him with that cue. I guess not anymore.

Oddly enough one of the matches came up cuz I was going through youtube. At the end of the match at 4 4 the american player shot the eight and got good position on the nine which was almost in front of the hole. The crowd started screaming like crazy and sure enough he missed it. An almost...