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This is not a vote for or against baby oil. It's also know as mineral oil (unscented), also available at the drug store.

Stole the words from my keyboard...

The same flyer also shows a room full of Brunswick Metro tables (http://www.brunswickbilliards.com/pool-tables/metro-440).

I remember reading somewhere that the chamfer was a portion of the cue the player could use to strike the cue ball for hard-to-reach shots. Nowadays it's strictly for traditional purpose. I'll try to find the reference. For thicker tips used in pool, the softer kind would flatten or mushroom...

The tip would wear out unevenly. Personally, I wouldn't like it because in my PSR I rotate the cue so I don't have to chalk up before every shot.

I can't see it either. I'm using Chrome.

I'm very familiar with the principles of conservation for q=mv and Ek, but it was too late for me to work out the math. Thanks for taking the time to explain. This is a spectacular observation! Dr Dave, thanks, I'll take a look. Meanwhile I had found this...

I'm not a fan of that stance, but if it works and it does... My advice still stands, but holding the cue far back makes for a longer bridge.

I find this statement very intriguing. Where does that come from?

Do you tend to grip the cue way in the back, maybe behind the wrap? Even with a fixed elbow and shoulder, this would tend to make the tip go up. At impact, my reference point is that the rear arm should be perpendicular to the floor, not the cue. So the grip feels a little bit "forward".

Similar question, answered by the people at McDermott: "This will vary from cue to cue due to the unique characteristics of wood. Most often they [these models] will weigh 17-18oz without a weight bolt. This would require either a 2oz or 3oz bolt to adjust the cue to 20oz. It would be best to...

It's not exactly him. He tells of some well-known pool player's test for matrimony. But yeah, he has that on one of his videos. Incidently, I have to admit, I don't get the joke. :frown: Could someone explain?

I agree that as part of PSR and alignment, it might be more distracting than anything. But maybe it could help a beginning player who is having problems getting the right "picture" of what a center hit looks like. For example, when practicing lagging the CB from the foot spot to the head rail...

Everybody has seen players address the cue ball and line up their cue with the tip touching the cloth, even when they intend to roll (follow) the cue ball. I've read some explanations, one being the shooter can see more of the cue ball. I don't know if we need to see that much more of the cue...

"The Finer Points of One Pocket", one of the first points Grady makes in the first few minutes.

I was shopping for one of those ball markers, until I read (here, somewhere) that one could use a tip tool such as this one: http://www.budgetcues.com/images/accessories/tip-tools/golden-brick-l.jpg Use the burnishing (forked) end. It works very well and it doesn't grab at the ball.

What I'm suggesting is that, even hitting only half-a-tip of bottom spin with a cue that's perfectly level, the cue ball would hop from squirt. To impart momentum that's totally horizontal, one would need to use the same type of pivot used to compensate for lateral squirt. Cue perfectly level...

Yeah, I know... clear as mud. :embarrassed2: It's just that I make a conscious effort to follow through along the (slightly elevated) line of the cue. I feel like I'm trying to drill a hole through the cue ball and make the tip touch the cloth. I used the word "pin" because it feels I'm...

While doing the BU Draw Shot exercise, I also found that, mechanically, asking my brain to pin the cue ball a little bit (within a reasonable slight elevation) made my elbow stay a bit higher, by blocking my shoulder joint. I don't necessarily suffer from elbow drop during the forward stroke...

Dr Dave, have you considered squirt in the vertical plane? When I was a beginning player, I heard and read to keep the cue as level as possible. So I figured that setting up a shot where the cue would clear the rails (I'm talkin' a really level cue here!) would yield the maximum amount of draw...