As usual, Jeff....I feel the middle path is the way to go...the golden mean.
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This shelf is too deep...if a ball is hanging and whitey is on the same rail as the object
ball is...you can’t see enough ball to go anyplace...extreme draw still hits two jaws.
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This Kim Steel is just two shallow...bad hits will still fall.
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This one, to me, is just right...it’s fair...good shots drop...bad shots rattle.
I played in a regular handicap 9-ball...they had one Dufferin Titan...deep shelves...
..had a ball hanging against a side pocket jaw...whitey was frozen on the same rail...
..one diamond away...I could only see less than one/eighth of the ball....
...I had no grudge against the table...never lost a match on it for the year it was there...
...but that is just too tight....but it had a perfect set of rails.