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WTFE (What The Flat Earth) is Max going on about? I know shapes aren't really his thing, but the ratio of cost per square foot to number of tables to food/drink sales will never allow 9ft tables to become common again.

I think he's talking about a shaft that is maple from the joint to about 14 or 15 inches and then a CF tube from there to the tip.

You may be right, but I don't know that tight pockets on a fast slick table are an indicator that a player is "better". If a ball will slide into a 4" pocket that was missed by 1/4-1/2" on either side because of slick, fast cloth, does that not make it play like a 4.5-5" pocket? If shots had...

Not better, just different.

:ROFLMAO: I was referring to the financial issues, but good point.

Assuming the "we" and "our" is referring to what many refer to as "American pool". I think what you are seeing is that only foreign companies seem to have any interest in supporting and promoting pool, so naturally the game has evolved more towards their traditions and conditions...

Took a little longer to get to this than I'd hoped, but my eye doctor gave me a free sample of Vuity eye drops. These are a slightly different product than the Vizz drops I wanted, but I gave them a try today anyway. I put one drop in each eye and within about 10 minutes they were a little...

His profile says Atlanta.

Anyone else imagine that one of garczar's ancestors was hanging around France in the early 1800's with a quill pen writing a rant about these new leather tips that they put on their cues and how some fool is gonna spend 2 francs on it? :ROFLMAO:

How many tables do you have available?

Like most things I think it's a compromise and only you can decide if it's worth the effort to retrain your brain for a LD shaft. In my opinion low deflection can help mask some imperfections in a stroke. If you strike the ball slightly off from where you intended the results are not as...

So, you believe that the equipment choice of the top 50 or so players in the world, 70 or 80% of which are sponsored by a cue company that currently does not make a KW shaft, carries more weight than the choices of former champions who choose to play with a KW shaft?

He didn't a few months ago.

I can't say. It's one of Bob's (BDCues) shafts which are 6-piece pie spliced. I do not know what he does to the front end to make them such low deflection.

I've watched Bergman play a few of the Ultimate Pool open event. He breaks 8 ball racks pretty hard with his playing cue. Haven't seen one explode yet.

Not sure what you are watching, but I see more than a few high-level players playing with Kielwood now. Justin, Tyler, Billy, Rodney, Johnny, occasionally Corey come to mind, I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of. There are a number in WPBA using them and if you watch any of the...

Nostalgia can be very deceiving. I spent a good portion of my life in the automotive world and I can't count the number of 60-80 year old men that just had to have that 65 Mustang or 67 Corvette or 71 Challenger or whatever because those cars were so much better than the crap they build today...

I hadn't thought of that, but I believe that would be true. Gonna have to start bringing a 5x10 case and a caddy to hand me the correct cue for my next shot. :D

Momentarily suspending the fact that tips do deform to some degree, if you had a flat tip, or at least a flat center, finding "center ball" should be much more forgiving. Forgive my very crude drawing that I spent about 30 seconds making. But if there was no deformation, all three of the...

I've been thinking about trying it just as a curiosity. I'm guessing it would be a struggle for me since I tend to use more english than needed, but just for fun I'd like to compare long straight in shots with a flat vs a quarter just to see if there is improvement. In theory, if you have a...