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travis trotter

travis trotter

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i don't know if anyone here uses darkblue chalk but i do to me it stays on the tip of the cue and it does not get on the cloth like other chalks will but i would recommend that you use a dark blue chalk if you want to get lucky and make shots on the table :)

thanks
 
travis trotter said:
i don't know if anyone here uses darkblue chalk but i do to me it stays on the tip of the cue and it does not get on the cloth like other chalks will but i would recommend that you use a dark blue chalk if you want to get lucky and make shots on the table :)

thanks
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If you are talking about the dark blue Master chalk and the light blue Master chalk I believe most players have noticed the difference probably since they started playing. The dark blue is more coarse than the light blue.

I believe the dark plays much better also :)
 
I notice the dark blue is a bit better than the light, but not by a *tremendous* factor. But a small bit can always help ;)
 
So anyone...

use dark brown and notice a difference? it seems better also than the standards! is there something different in the dark chalks composition than the lighter shades :confused: Anybody got a contact with Master?
 
I have my doubts about color having anything to do with how coarse or how well the chalk sticks.

Aside from pigment that is added to make the color of your choice, I believe them to be identical.
 
travis trotter said:
i don't know if anyone here uses darkblue chalk but i do to me it stays on the tip of the cue and it does not get on the cloth like other chalks will but i would recommend that you use a dark blue chalk if you want to get lucky and make shots on the table :)

thanks
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Travis, how old are you? I only ask because everything you type reads like the stream-of-conciousness text of a four year old.
 
Mr. Wilson said:
I have my doubts about color having anything to do with how coarse or how well the chalk sticks.

Aside from pigment that is added to make the color of your choice, I believe them to be identical.
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There have been other threads on this topic. For some reason, Masters Light Blue/Green leaves chalk marks on the table, whereas dark blue does not.
 
Do you have any info on how they are composed?

Mr. Wilson said:
I have my doubts about color having anything to do with how coarse or how well the chalk sticks.

Aside from pigment that is added to make the color of your choice, I believe them to be identical.
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It would seem they were the same but there seems to be so many post on how the dark ones seem to stick better! I myself have used Tan and Dark Brown Masters and the Dark definitely seems to stick better. :confused: the tan will leave a mark every time I shoot on the table while the dark (which seemingly would show up more) does not! :)
 
IMO, being able to see the chalk dust on the table cloth is just a matter of the lighting / color of the cloth and how the light refracts off the chalk dust. ( an optical illusion ) The same dust is likely there regardless of what color your chalk is, whether or not you notice it.

Same goes for the chalk on the cue tip, the same amount is there ( I believe ) you can just see some colors better.

Help me better understand if I am wrong.
 
This was made due to playing on a friends tan cloth

MrLucky said:
It would seem they were the same but there seems to be so many post on how the dark ones seem to stick better! I myself have used Tan and Dark Brown Masters and the Dark definitely seems to stick better. :confused: the tan will leave a mark every time I shoot on the table while the dark (which seemingly would show up more) does not! :)
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I would think on a Tan cloth Proline table that the dark Brown chalk would make a more noticable mark than the light Tan chalk yet the opposite was occurring :confused:
 
Mr. Wilson said:
IMO, being able to see the chalk dust on the table cloth is just a matter of the lighting / color of the cloth and how the light refracts off the chalk dust. ( an optical illusion ) The same dust is likely there regardless of what color your chalk is, whether or not you notice it.

Same goes for the chalk on the cue tip, the same amount is there ( I believe ) you can just see some colors better.

Help me better understand if I am wrong.
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The following threads might be of interest to you:

TennesseeJoe's posting summarizes my experiences with Masters Green:
MASTERS Chalk---Green vs. Blue
Recently I purchased a gross of green Masters chalk. I found that is plays very diferent than the Masters blue. The green is soft, does not stick to the tip and I am prone to miscue with it. After going back to the blue Masters, I found that it is much better.​
 
Mr. Wilson said:
I have my doubts about color having anything to do with how coarse or how well the chalk sticks.

Aside from pigment that is added to make the color of your choice, I believe them to be identical.
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My wife is into art, especially how the colors are made and out of what ingredients. She was also a biology major with lots of chemistry. Her mother was a well know artist and she is trying to preserve her paintings and to find out what colors last thru time and why, as she paints too and is just curious about mixing colors etc. She has discovered that the manufacturing companies spend lots of research dollars making colors.

So she took to heart this subject of the effect that colors have on Masters Chalk.

We have every color chalk that Masters produces. She took each one and rubbed it down a sheet of white paper and examined the properties with a magnifying glass. As other posters have stated, some is more coarse than others. Different colors do have different 'sticky' properties, which she thinks is due to the 'chemical makeup' of the colors.

This may be obvious to some of you out there, but it wasn't to me, as I thought like Mr. Wilson does - why should color make a difference? Now I think I know why.

It is possible that different kinds of tips hold onto different kinds of chalks in different manners, also.

Cheers, WW
 
Tan for me!

I use Masters tan. The heck with matching the table color. I am concerned with what shows up on my cue shaft over time.;)
 
I agree with that

rackem said:
I use Masters tan. The heck with matching the table color. I am concerned with what shows up on my cue shaft over time.;)
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I started with the tan when a cue maker suggested that it would stain my cue less, and have migrated to brown due to its seemingly stickier attributes
 
Mr. Wilson said:
IMO, being able to see the chalk dust on the table cloth is just a matter of the lighting / color of the cloth and how the light refracts off the chalk dust. ( an optical illusion ) The same dust is likely there regardless of what color your chalk is, whether or not you notice it.

Same goes for the chalk on the cue tip, the same amount is there ( I believe ) you can just see some colors better.

Help me better understand if I am wrong.
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The Light blue or light green Master Chalk whatever anyone wants to call it is a very different chalk than the dark blue master, It always has been.

I know players (like TK) that love the light colored (very fine) master. Most people like the Dark colored (coarse) master because it does stick better.

Take a piece of both and rub some between your fingers :)

(edit: Any other color doesn't really matter because "real" pool tables are green anyway.)

"If you can't hit'em good, Hit'em Hard!" said by Buddy Hall @ the Planet (Tampa)
 
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I'm shooting with Harley-Davidson chalk. (got it as a gift). It's made by Tweeten and I'm pretty sure it's just blue Master in different paper. Plays like it.

Years ago we had an idiot drop a couple of cubes of Master into a pitcher of beer. The beer turned blue but was still drinkable (at least we thought so at the time). Even after the chalk dried out it wasn't so good anymore. (can't imagine why...)
 
i hate to bring this thread back to life but i have a question.... dark blue chalk...all i have seen from masters is a light blue color...am i missing something here.

sambo
 
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