Care and Feeding of a Fine Pool Cue by Richard Black

[TerryZak]

Greetings Folks,

I searched through the list of forums and couldn't find one dedicated to maintenance. If this is the incorrect location for this post, please advise and I'll try to figure out how to move it.

I've seen the jpg's of Richard Black's fine article, Care and Feeding of a Fine Pool Cue and though hey, it's 2025 we should have something better. So I approached a friend who's a computer guy and he wrote something in Python to convert the jpg's to a MS Word file. I then checked line-by-line against the original jpg's and made corrections as needed along with formatting for easy reading.

So here is a PDF of the entire article to share with our community. All rights are to Mr. Richard Black. I have no idea how to contact him for permission to post this, so if there are any issues, please advise and I can remove the post if necessary.

Kind regards,

Terry

 

[garczar]

Love it. That's the too-cool-for-school old school way. I love the spit on the tip tip. I've been doing that for 40+yrs.

 

[RandyinHawaii]

Thanks for posting that!

 

[Bob Jewett]

... I've seen the jpg's of Richard Black's fine article, Care and Feeding of a Fine Pool Cue ...

Thanks for the article. It takes a lot of work to turn a jpg into text.

Do you know the original date and publication?

 

[HawaiianEye]

Love it. That's the too-cool-for-school old school way. I love the spit on the tip tip. I've been doing that for 40+yrs.

I got that letter on a little pamphlet from Richard when he made me a cue in 1978.

 

[HawaiianEye]

Thanks for the article. It takes a lot of work to turn a jpg into text.

Do you know the original date and publication?

NLT 1978. He sent me a little pamphlet with that when he made my cue in 1978.

 

[Hungarian]

Love it. That's the too-cool-for-school old school way. I love the spit on the tip tip. I've been doing that for 40+yrs.

I loved the part where he recommended chucking the shaft up in a hand drill and spin sand it was 80 grit. Just kidding..

 

[mikemosconi]

I bought my RB Split Diamond model directly from Richard in 2002 and beyond the hundreds of cues that have passed my hands since then - his is still my favorite player and will never leave me- it is my one, true untouchable and always will be - goes to my sons someday.