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Why aren't you playing with a Meucci?

Maybe a game using "pills" in a bottle could help "randomize" the break. After the break, pills corresponding to the numbers of the balls remaining on the table are placed in the pill bottle and shaken up. For example, the 1 ball is made on the break and balls 2 through 9 remain on the table...

Oscar and his dad both did.

I didn't purchase it. I got my Jackpots through some trading. I tried one and liked it and then got it.

Deano had Larry core the handle and then sent it to Schmelke to put into the cue.

The coring was done before the cue was put together. I have two Jackpots and seven interchangeable shafts for them. They play lights out.

Schmelke made them for Deano. The top Jackpot has a Camphor Burl handle that was made and cored with Purple Heart by Larry Vigus.

You need to hit the Jackpot so you will quit looking for cues. Coos Cue in the middle and a Jackpot on top and bottom. No decals here.

Damn, he could have paid you back in carwash quarters.

I also bought a Dennis Searing shaft with an ivory ferrule to use with it. Turns it into a Dennis Tucker or a Murray Searing.

I think Murray only made about 50 cues. I have one of the first five cues he ever made...a Sneaky Pete. They are harder to get than a Searing.

Aloha Randy. Looks like you got a nice new toy. Play well with it.

My Coos Cue has a matching extension and 3 matching shafts.

Very nice.

If I am playing a slow player for nothing, I tell him that if he wants to continue playing with me that he is paying for all of the table time. I am not going to pay time to watch someone look at the table and walk around it all day.

I had Richard Black make me an ebony four-point back in 1978 and it may have been the best playing cue I ever had. A young Air Force guy in the Philippines talked me into selling it to him in 1981 when I had Richard make me another cue more expensive than the first one. They were different...

It is hard for me to play with anyone who doesn't play well. It gets old slaughtering baby seals and I lose interest. I like playing people who shoot run-out pool.

I have done the "hard hit" many times...knock the hell out of them. FWIW, that is what I teach beginners who do not have a stroke and are poking and afraid to hit the cue ball.

I think Dale isn't with us anymore.

John Chaplin of Coos Cues is fantastic, too.