I have a top secret batch of Taom V-16. It comes in a plain brown wrapper and doesn't look real pretty in this proto-type batch but it will make you play 17.36% better than anything you are using now, last for years, very clean, and gives off the aroma of orange blossoms when you use it. The lab already has V-20 in earliest lab trials, early testing is bacon smelling to distract and shark your opponent. Have to be very careful though, it can be a two-edged sword! I managed the score the entire batch of the V-16 chalk when the lab tech went out back for a smoke. Needless to say, supply is very limited. I will part with some of the chalk at a very reasonable price considering a full time player should get a minimum of five years use out of a piece!
I bought a gross of Master blue chalk many years ago, sixteen cents a cube. It had became obvious that it was going to last longer than I would so I started playing around with some of it. Dried it for three or four hours in the oven at low heat. As soon as it was cool enough I quickly put it in vacuum tight containers.
Now my Master blue played more like Master green which I have always found to be a little drier. Played well, hard to keep on a tip. Then I noticed a cube of the blue I had forgotten on the back patio down in basically New Orleans. This stuff was wet enough to wring water out of, never the less down to the pool hall it went for the sake of science. Went on with a not so wonderful gummy consistency, but it really stuck to the tip. The tip, my hands, the cloth, seemingly anything it got within a yard of!
After careful testing I concluded that the knuckleheads that made Master chalk had settled on the worst possible moisture content! Anything else, more moisture or less, was better.
As a side note, I was wrapping my chalk in green or yellow electrical tape both to keep my chalk separate from house chalk and also to minimize moisture transfer. I wouldn't use much more than an eighth inch off the top before I would donate a piece to the pool room. In the very low rent area Buffalo's was in, a suburb of New Orleans patrolled day and night by ladies of easy virtue and other denizens, it was amazing how many people would chase me a hundred feet or more when they found a piece of my chalk they thought I had accidentally left behind!
If I was competing or seriously gambling I wouldn't bat an eye buying fifty dollar a cube chalk that helped my performance. I have paid over a thousand dollars for a tenth of a second working with cars. However, I chalk at the beginning of a rack and right before I put a lot of spin on the cue ball. Used like this, Master works great for me. I had accumulated samples of all kinds of wonder chalk, I gave them away to a friend that likes to try things.
Somehow these round and octagon shaped chalks tempt my dark side. A power chalk seems to have real potential to sell to the bangers. There is only one thing I fear, "FIRE, FIRE, We have ignition on table six!"
Hu
