That "someone" may have been me, if so, then I truly apologize to all the forum members (with one obvious exception that is) for any contribution I may have made to the thread being closed.
As with most threads, it did demonstrate that most makers have different techniques, none of which are either right or wrong, simply different. That however is not justification for political or racial remarks!
When the thread took that turn, then it was probably best that it be closed.
The way I see it is, this forum is part of the WWW (World Wide Web), it's not limited to "American" cuemakers, nor is it limited to PI cuemakers. It's not even limited to cuemakers.
Once again, if I offended anyone (with that one member being an exception) I do apologize, but, I am not going to sit idly by and read remarks like the one that was posted towards the PI maker.
That just is not acceptable!