Masters chalk blows... I'm done

shinobi said:
I literally cannot believe how bad Silver Cup chalk is.

Set up some shots with moderate to extreme English and shoot them several times, with Masters chalk. No problem. Then, with the same cue and shooting the same shots, use Silver Cup chalk. Miscues all over the place.

It's so bad I don't understand how it remains on the market.
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What he said. When I see it, I move it to another table.
 
itsfroze said:
The good players in rooms all over could use any chalk they want but amazingly they
still use the master chalk. I guess now you'll say that's because it's free. LOL

Enjoy you're grey cloth, and have a great day.
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good players in pool rooms drink water and get irate if they are charged for coffee too. Master's is the free chalk available

It is also an entirely different situation when we are talking about a home table vs a pool room table that you cant keep nice no matter what you do.
 
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Two points about atypical chalk colors. And they apply to both Masters and Silvercup. The points were illuminated for me long ago when a clubhouse where I played had *black* fabric on the tables (friggin' corporate designers for the community development wanted the tables to coordinate with other furniture in the clubhouse). Anyway, both Masters black and Silvercup black were equally problematic & miserable to use.

I soon called Masters (Tweeten) and a very helpful and sympathetic sales rep (as in "Good luck with certain unconventionally-colored chalks") explained things for me:

-- Chalks in little demand, sit around way too long in warehouses and supplier inventories and their properties (questionable to gin with), deteriorate well beyond the rapidly-turned-over conventional colors..

-- Why the questionable playing properties of certain colors? It's due to the interaction of certain color dyes with the basic chalk ingredients (mainly silica and proprietary binders), which must be, and are, used in chalks of any color.

Bottom line forget your generalizing (actually needlessly denigrating) comments about Masters. Masters and Silvercup are leading brands for good reason -- their chalks are excellent (moreso for Masters) and both brands' would readily admit that certain colors of their product have less-than-ideal properties for the aforementioned reasons.

Hope this clarifies the matter for players who haven't heard about these elements of the issue.

Arnaldo
 
Run a test

Grab three different chalks all of the same color, have someone blindfold you and chalk you cue for you. You will not know the difference of play, and or which shot you took with which chalk.

All in your head.
 
ChicagoRJ said:
That's kinda sad imho. The wife picks out the color of the cloth for your pool table? You could have bought a grey table cover, that solves everything.....

Hey, I don't blame you though, I got lots of friends that married their "mothers" and need permission to take a piss.... I just never understood it, and still don't ??
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The key phrase is, "a new table in the living room". Are you married? If so, do you hit her with an object or your fist? Please, teach me your ways!
 
Russian Magic Chalk is AWESOME chalk.
It's not easy to find but it pops up every now and then.
It's a little pricy but it's worth every penny. $10 a box normally (2 cubes of chalk per box)
 
To me this seems to be a cloth colour problem.
White and grey will naturally show stains more clearly than blue, green or even tan.
 
Better watch out. If you keep talking facts and logic, you might get banned. This is the internet!

arnaldo said:
Two points about atypical chalk colors. And they apply to both Masters and Silvercup. The points were illuminated for me long ago when a clubhouse where I played had *black* fabric on the tables (friggin' corporate designers for the community development wanted the tables to coordinate with other furniture in the clubhouse). Anyway, both Masters black and Silvercup black were equally problematic & miserable to use.

I soon called Masters (Tweeten) and a very helpful and sympathetic sales rep (as in "Good luck with certain unconventionally-colored chalks") explained things for me:

-- Chalks in little demand, sit around way too long in warehouses and supplier inventories and their properties (questionable to gin with), deteriorate well beyond the rapidly-turned-over conventional colors..

-- Why the questionable playing properties of certain colors? It's due to the interaction of certain color dyes with the basic chalk ingredients (mainly silica and proprietary binders), which must be, and are, used in chalks of any color.

Bottom line forget your generalizing (actually needlessly denigrating) comments about Masters. Masters and Silvercup are leading brands for good reason -- their chalks are excellent (moreso for Masters) and both brands' would readily admit that certain colors of their product have less-than-ideal properties for the aforementioned reasons.

Hope this clarifies the matter for players who haven't heard about these elements of the issue.

Arnaldo
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ChicagoRJ said:
That's kinda sad imho. The wife picks out the color of the cloth for your pool table? You could have bought a grey table cover, that solves everything.....

Hey, I don't blame you though, I got lots of friends that married their "mothers" and need permission to take a piss.... I just never understood it, and still don't ??
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Read my mind 😏
 
arnaldo said:
Two points about atypical chalk colors. And they apply to both Masters and Silvercup. The points were illuminated for me long ago when a clubhouse where I played had *black* fabric on the tables (friggin' corporate designers for the community development wanted the tables to coordinate with other furniture in the clubhouse). Anyway, both Masters black and Silvercup black were equally problematic & miserable to use.

I soon called Masters (Tweeten) and a very helpful and sympathetic sales rep (as in "Good luck with certain unconventionally-colored chalks") explained things for me:

-- Chalks in little demand, sit around way too long in warehouses and supplier inventories and their properties (questionable to gin with), deteriorate well beyond the rapidly-turned-over conventional colors..

-- Why the questionable playing properties of certain colors? It's due to the interaction of certain color dyes with the basic chalk ingredients (mainly silica and proprietary binders), which must be, and are, used in chalks of any color.

Bottom line forget your generalizing (actually needlessly denigrating) comments about Masters. Masters and Silvercup are leading brands for good reason -- their chalks are excellent (moreso for Masters) and both brands' would readily admit that certain colors of their product have less-than-ideal properties for the aforementioned reasons.

Hope this clarifies the matter for players who haven't heard about these elements of the issue.

Arnaldo
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It's posts like these that make AZ worth reading...good info, sir.
 
robsnotes4u said:
Grab three different chalks all of the same color, have someone blindfold you and chalk you cue for you. You will not know the difference of play, and or which shot you took with which chalk.

All in your head.
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I haven't noticed any difference with different colors of Masters chalk.
I absolutely noticed a big difference with Silver Cup chalk (in a bad way).
 
Nostroke said:
good players in pool rooms drink water and get irate if they are charged for coffee too. Master's is the free chalk available

It is also an entirely different situation when we are talking about a home table vs a pool room table that you cant keep nice no matter what you do.
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Like I said before if they didn't like the Master chalk they would bring their own,
then b*tch about the water. LOL
 
moneytalks said:
If you guys had an attractive, intelligent, funny woman that gave 2 sh!ts about you... You might have grey cloth too. Judging from the Colonel's selfie... He looks like bar scum to me. Enjoy your green cloth fellas.



Originally Posted by ChicagoRJ
That's kinda sad imho. The wife picks out the color of the cloth for your pool table? You could have bought a grey table cover, that solves everything.....

Hey, I don't blame you though, I got lots of friends that married their "mothers" and need permission to take a piss.... I just never understood it, and still don't ??
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There's no need to resort to insults but then again if a woman had my nads tucked away in her night stand like yours does I might have anger issues like you also. Enjoy your grey cloth. 😏
 
1) ARNALDO, is right.
2) SCOTT LEE, says that if you have chalk on your ferrule, then you're not chalking properly (rubbing toothpaste on it will take the chalk right off)
3) MOSCONI, uses Masters chalk. (and i know this, cause i've got the winning cube from Niels's last shot)
4) WILSON loves to delete threads & ban people on Fridays....
 
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