Marking the Long String ?

[mamics]

Does anyone have the long string drawn on their table ? (from the foot spot down to the foot rail)

Is it's purpose just to ensure the balls will be racked 'square' to the table ?

Cheers.

 

[DelaWho???]

Does anyone have the long string drawn on their table ? (from the foot spot down to the foot rail)

Is it's purpose just to ensure the balls will be racked 'square' to the table ?

Cheers.

I did it to help with that as well as spot placement.

 

[daylate$short]

ball placement

You really need it for spotted ball placement in Straight Pool, and 1 Pocket.

Charlie

 

[3andstop]

I have the headstring, the rack outline, and the string line from the footspot to foot rail drawn.

I enjoy 14.1 and 1pkt.

For the life of me, I never understood why these lines are not drawn at major events, even if only in soapstone. I mean I see knowledgeable people refereeing, don't they think of this? :scratchhead:

 

[Black-Balled]

I put it there so I can see something smaller than my wang.:embarrassed2:

 

[ChopStick]

They used to be on all tables. For whatever reason, they stopped doing it years ago.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Does anyone have the long string drawn on their table ? (from the foot spot down to the foot rail)

Is it's purpose just to ensure the balls will be racked 'square' to the table ?

Cheers.

As others have mentioned, it is for games in which balls spot. If you want to make sure the triangle is in the right place, you could mark the two back corners with tailor's chalk.

 

[wontonny]

I've subtly marked tables I play on with the long string with one very small sharpie dot to line up with another marking on my triangle. I do not play games that require spotting of balls regularly. I just enjoy having a consistently square rack.

 

[Tennesseejoe]

I also put a line for the head string. It really comes in handy when determining if a ball is in the kitchen when playing One Pocket. The base of the cue ball must be behind the line but the object ball's base may be on the line.

 

[SloMoHolic]

My table is marked with the rack outline, a cross on the foot spot itself, and a line from the foot spot to the rail.

I used a very fine black Sharpie for the markings.

The Diamond wooden rack has a notch in the center of the back of the rack. Along with the rack outline, this notch helps me keep the rack square to the table.



As others have mentioned, the long string also helps when spotting balls.

 

[randy maha]

Perhaps not the original reason.....several years ago our league changed to "rack your own". Several players sought to cock the rack and gain an advantage on the break. We opened our rule book and called foul because the drawing in the rule book shows the 8 ball in line with the long string.

 

[yankeepapa]

long string

A marked long string is also very helpful to the quick and accurate placing of a magic ball rack, especially on newer cloth.

pete

 

[SloMoHolic]

A marked long string is also very helpful to the quick and accurate placing of a magic ball rack, especially on newer cloth.

pete

Yes, I forgot to mention that. The long string makes it so the Magic rack is very easy to position correctly. Great point.

 

[DelaWho???]

Bottom line it's helpful for alot of reasons, including but not limited to 1 pocket, spotting, rack alignment and visualizing bank angles.

My table is lined and spotted at both the head and foot spots. It looks nice and symetrical and I can break from either end to even the wear and tear on the simonis. I mostly play solo, and I break a lot of racks doing the Que Skills.

 

[naji]

Does anyone have the long string drawn on their table ? (from the foot spot down to the foot rail)

Is it's purpose just to ensure the balls will be racked 'square' to the table ?

Cheers.

used to carry $1 laser light, it worked great