Have You Wondered About Pool Chalks?

[Bavafongoul]

I got stuck on this part. I have a bunch of crap in there but never considered carrying a digital scale.

Amazing how many pool players don’t know their cue. Maybe it doesn’t matter to them but I am dialed in on my
equipment. I can tell you the specs on my guns, their weight, trigger pull, etc. If I ever wanted to buy a cue, I don’t
want to get interested unless the cue meets my specs that are very precise which all my cue makers would attest.

 

[maha]

well until i wear out my gross of masters i will leave my guess as to how good the other chalks do. i almost mis- cued a few months ago so maybe i should change chalks.

but this thread got me thinking. from now on, i will take a scale out to eat. i want to know how much my hamburger weighs after they cook it and how much value i lose if it is smaller than another place.
but hamburgers cost less than some peoples piece of chalk.

but its in grams, and that makes figuring it out difficult unless i use a.i. on my phone.

 

[skor]

Pool chalks are coming out of the wood works or so it seems. I thought TAOM was the cat’s meow for chalks and then Pagulayan works a deal with TAOM to introduce a cube version under his name. Boy, I thought that was a brilliant idea and it weighed 1 gram heavier than V10 so the value was equivalent. Now I am starting to wonder about other pool chalks, especially after trying Ghost chalk. Fedorgorst has his own brand of chalk and I was favorably impressed with its presentation, appearance and how it applies and plays. It sure looks and plays like TAOM but can’t be since it is made in America, I don’t know how you feel and despite that Finland is our NATO ally, I still prefer to buy USA.

So after trying the chalk, it absolutely feels better in my grip and it weighs more than other chalks costing every bit as much. Now I am pissed over shrinkage of products in America like food. The bag and contents keep shrinking but the price keeps going up. So I resent being ripped off. Manufacturers can’t raise the price the as high as they want it to be so they bump the price and shrink the contents.

Ghost chalk made me aware of this and now I’m irritated with myself for never realizing this before. So I am simply offering a public service thread. If you like the chalk, and indeed it costs more but gives you more product than other equivalent brands, isn’t it worth considering? Fedorgorst’s chalk has a fantastic shape to grip and it feels more substantial too. It applies great and how long it lasts is yet to be decided. Ghost chalk weighs 24.1 grams…..Wow.

BTW, I think that the Ghost chalk has a magnet or a piece of metal in it so it will attach to a magnet holder, have you taken that extra weight into consideration?

 

[Bavafongoul]

BTW, I think that the Ghost chalk has a magnet or a piece of metal in it so it will attach to a magnet holder, have you taken that extra weight into consideration?

Ha Ha…I did not know that……no one has mentioned this until you just now……that makes sense and pretty handy
if you happen to use a magnetic chalk holder. I happen to prefer a soft leather pouch. I’ve had this one for decades.

 

[Paul Bell]

Get the real thing --- buy 140-year-old chalk from eBay.

Oliver L. Briggs & Son billiard company was in existence between 1870 and 1962. The chalk for sale on eBay is when the Briggs company was on Boylston Street in Boston between 1870 and 1889 or about 140 years ago.

 

[markjames]

Because there’s always a group of suckers that will buy the “newest thing” thinking it will be the magical thing that will take their mediocre game to the next level.

you call them suckers, which may be true, but why do the sneaker shoe companies give billions of dollars to athletes endorsing their products? because it works?

 

[maha]

yes it works as so many are indeed suckers for a good ad or something that someone they idolize does or wears.

we all do it to some extent, some more than others.

 

[Frosty]

yes it works as so many are indeed suckers for a good ad or something that someone they idolize does or wears.

Thanks for answering him for me, couldn’t have said it better myself.

 

[Rickhem]

This thread is heavy shit, Got me thinking... what is the weight of a Triangle tip... weight of the rubber bumper.
I might weight a half piece of V10 later using a bathroom scale. Would weigh myself first then with the piece of chalk.

I get the fact that we're way out in the weeds with this stuff. But it falls in my zone of preferences and tendencies.

A big part of my career was spent doing pharma development. Identifying bottlenecks, improving processes and finding ways to make things faster, easier, more cost-effective, and more reproducible. As a shooter and reloader, you get that too. And it's fun to let that thought process run wild again.

 

[GoldCrown]

I get the fact that we're way out in the weeds with this stuff. But it falls in my zone of preferences and tendencies.

A big part of my career was spent doing pharma development. Identifying bottlenecks, improving processes and finding ways to make things faster, easier, more cost-effective, and more reproducible. As a shooter and reloader, you get that too. And it's fun to let that thought process run wild again.

Maybe the chalk should be weighed and measured as things keep getting smaller and more expensive. And I hate paying for tare weight. How much does the paper wrap on the chalk weigh?

 

[GoldCrown]

Has anyone weighed a sheet of toilet paper lately? Can be single or double thick. Which brand is the shit?

 

[Mensabum]

I've got a blue Taom V10, didn't like it.
Got 4pc of Pagulayan green which I like, it'll take a long time to run through 4 pcs so I don't need to wonder for a while and when the time will come, we'll see what will be the current hit

We find pieces of predator chalk on the rails all the time, along with nubs of Pags and Taom.

 

[couldnthinkof01]

Has anyone weighed a sheet of toilet paper lately? Can be single or double thick. Which brand is the shit?

Go bidet, spray the cares away