Masters, triangle chalk becoming outdated

Zerksies said:
My wife use to buy $30 hand bags from Kohl's every three months not because they went out of style but because they broke. I was tired of hearing her complain. I took her to the Coach store and buy her a $200 bag it lasted 2 years. Needless to say she don't buy cheap stuff no more.
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Be very, very careful. Mine's worked up to Louis Vuitton now.
 
dquarasr said:
I agree with the sentiment, had you compared a new RR to a 1974 Pinto. Pintos were disappointing car enthusiasts model years 1971-1980.
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Yea, probably wasn't the very best comparison I could come up with. I'm just sick to death of hearing people bitch about how other people spend their own money.
 
Bavafongoul said:
About 11 years ago, a purchased a carton (25 boxes - 50 pieces) of Blue Diamond Chalk on eBay for under $90.
I’ll never have to buy chalk again
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Instead if you have bought a gross of Masters, you would have saved $70 and had 3× the number of cubes--
enough to leave on at the table every time you went out to play.
 
Grimper said:
Be very, very careful. Mine's worked up to Louis Vuitton now.
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Don’t worry, that ain’t shit. Just wait the Hermes is next. Then you’ll feel it.

It’s a natural evolution like cues. Starts with some swap meet pos, then the innocent McDermot, then the schon, well a SW can’t be bad-right? Then the simple but elegant tascerlla then the Szam’s start to accumulate.

It’s just the course of nature.

😂😂💪
 
Bavafongoul said:
About 11 years ago, a purchased a carton (25 boxes - 50 pieces) of Blue Diamond Chalk on eBay for under $90.
I’ll never have to buy chalk again and I still have 8 boxes (16 pieces) remaining. Along the way, I acquired boxes
of premium grade chalks but always returned to using BD. It plays clean and since I chalk lightly every shot, it
plays just as well as chalk costing $20-$25 a cube. I just can’t see paying that much for any chalk when there
are so many other alternative brands. Sure BD also costs more than say Masters but it’s a lot more reasonably
priced than the brands being highly touted. When a single piece of chalk costs as much, or even more, as you
spend for a tip and your cue’s tip is way more important than any chalk brand you use, something seems wacky.
Nonetheless, as long as you don’t lose your premium chalk & chalk properly, then buying a couple pieces a year
of Taom or some other brand seems reasonable because if that makes you happier, then it’s all that really matters.
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Sorry to hear that about the Blue Diamond. I really like your posts and like you. But really Blue Diamond? Ugh. It makes my hands sticky.

I do agree about buying for the future. When J&J decided that it was cancerous I bought enough to last longer than me. I like that powder the best.

Best
Fatboy 😃😃
 
when i first started pool it was all national blue . then its masters or triangle. those are what you see.

i just play rail chalk. it works just fine for me. rail chalk is whatever is on the rail when i get to the table.
 
JPB2 said:
I didn’t think I would switch from Triangle to the expensive stuff. But the cleanliness of Taom got me. I do like Triangle tho.
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Masters at the pool room, on the rail.
Taom at home. It's clean.
I chalk after almost every shot as it's part of my PSR without really noticing it so it doesn't matterwhat chalk I use.
As far as miscues and my own personal opinions, people miscue because they come out of the shot.
Just a slight head lift will do it.

I love it when someone who miscues looks at their tip as if it's the tips fault and then furiously uses their tip tapper on their tip.
It's your fault.
Not the tips fault or the chalk.
Everything that happens at the table is your own fault.
You can blame yourself when you lose and you can blame yourself when you win.
 
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philly said:
I love it when someone who miscues looks at their tip as if it's the tips fault and then furiously uses their tip tapper on their tip.
It's your fault.
Not the tips fault or the chalk.
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As someone who replaces tips for people, I have to agree. :ROFLMAO: Go ahead and grind that tip down to nothing!
I have forgotten to chalk after taking my cue out of the case (I wipe the chalk off before storing) and miscued due to a complete lack of chalk, but I suppose that's still on me.
 
The Tweeten company missed the mark. They haven't released anything new in decades. They completely missed the "clean" chalk era, and the layered tip era. I expect them to fold up eventually.

That's what happens when the biggest companies in their industry don't keep innovating.
 
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iusedtoberich said:
The Tweeten company missed the mark. They haven't released anything new in decades. They completely missed the "clean" chalk era, and the layered tip era. I them to fold up eventually.

That's what happens when the biggest companies in their industry don't keep innovating.
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I bet they could figure it out. Dunno why they wouldn’t. I think- guess- they made Blue Diamond. Pretty good chalk. Masters and Triangle are good chalks and I prefer them to some of the premium ones. As I said above, Taom got me on cleanliness. If tweeten made a clean chalk for $5-$10 a cube I’d be on it. Call it Master of the Universe. 😜
 
JPB2 said:
I bet they could figure it out. Dunno why they wouldn’t. I think- guess- they made Blue Diamond. Pretty good chalk. Masters and Triangle are good chalks and I prefer them to some of the premium ones. As I said above, Taom got me on cleanliness. If tweeten made a clean chalk for $5-$10 a cube I’d be on it. Call it Master of the Universe. 😜
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They could, but in 30 some years since the Moori, they haven't released any tip worth a damn. I doubt they will do anything with the chalk either.
 
Sheldon said:
As someone who replaces tips for people, I have to agree. :ROFLMAO: Go ahead and grind that tip down to nothing!
I have forgotten to chalk after taking my cue out of the case (I wipe the chalk off before storing) and miscued due to a complete lack of chalk, but I suppose that's still on me.
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Yup. It is.
You did it to yourself.

I remember a guy who told me he lost his match because he scratched too many times in his match. He was serious too, as if scratching wasn't his fault. I didn't want to tell him that his scratches were on him.
What do you think?
 
iusedtoberich said:
The Tweeten company missed the mark. They haven't released anything new in decades. They completely missed the "clean" chalk era, and the layered tip era. I expect them to fold up eventually.

That's what happens when the biggest companies in their industry don't keep innovating.
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True.
In business adapt or die.
The New England Buggy Whip Company was once a blue chip stock.
 
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