Question about brown chalk

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For those of you that use brown chalk to avoid staining your shaft, which shade worked?

After using Blue Diamond for years, it has left me with very badly stained shafts. I recently ordered some Master's brown chalk, but I noticed it's pretty damn dark.

I went back on the site and noticed they also make a Gold/Tan. Now I am regretting not seeing that before placing my order...

Has anyone had experience with either, or even better, both?
 
I have had good luck with tan Master chalk. It plays similar to blue. Someone else suggested silver Master. I bought a box, but really did not like the feel of it.
 
Tan Masters is called gold by some vendors.....I sell a ton of it because it turns the shaft light brown instead of blue or green.....no complaints.
 
I use Gold/Tan masters with no problems.
I also use a tip prik.
After done playing. I wipe the chalk
off the tip before putting cue away.
This helps keep shaft clean and also the case.
Plus it does help to keep your hands dry and
clean too, so shaft doesn't get dirty.
Just my opinion and it works for me.
GL with your chalk choice.
Mike
 
If you use non-blue chalk in a public pool hall, I hope you clean the table afterwards. If you don't, please stay out of my room.

pj <- ditto for talc
chgo
 
Patrick Johnson said:
If you use non-blue chalk in a public pool hall, I hope you clean the table afterwards. If you don't, please stay out of my room.

pj <- ditto for talc
chgo
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Yep, that. I never had issues with shaft or ferrule staining that I can remember. Every time I've seen a dirty ferrule it was because of using hollowed out chalk or just not knowing how to chalk.

Only chalk that really gets messy is the brightly dyed stuff like red. Luckily all the places I've been to that had red cloth had so little respect for keeping the equipment clean and in good shape that I don't feel guilty at all about using my own blue chalk on their red tables :thumbup:
 
Which do you prefer for performance....chalk from companies are the same formula it is just the dye used.....
 
Patrick Johnson said:
If you use non-blue chalk in a public pool hall, I hope you clean the table afterwards. If you don't, please stay out of my room.

pj <- ditto for talc
chgo
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Exactly. It's 100% easier to clean your cue than the table. I had a friend come over to my house to play once, and he uses red chalk - never again. Awful.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
If you use non-blue chalk in a public pool hall, I hope you clean the table afterwards. If you don't, please stay out of my room.

pj <- ditto for talc
chgo
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I play at a very nice bar that uses blue felt. There are several regulars that bring their own chalk, and I have never seen it being an issue.
 
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If you come to any local poolrooms with odd colored chalk on the simonis tournament blue you'll be asked to use the proper color chalk or you'll be asked nicely to not play pool.

Using off colored chalk on a table besides your own is not cool and mostly seen as being disrespectful to the house.






Rob.M
 
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If the pool rooms maintained their cloth with a regular cleaning, the color of chalk that a paying customer chose to use wouldn't matter.

For the record, I use grey because it's less noticeable on the shaft AND the cloth.
 
I use tan and great chalk. Our local room has Tournament Blue Simonis. My chalk doesn't leave noticeable marks on the blue cloth and neither does my team captain's red chalk.
 
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Guys??? What did we all learn with? Blue chalk and blue shafts at times, it's part of the game. I would be embarassed to play with anything else,,,:thumbup:
 
phil dade said:
Guys??? What did we all learn with? Blue chalk and blue shafts at times, it's part of the game. I would be embarassed to play with anything else,,,:thumbup:
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No Kidding :thumbup:

Or just switch to Magic Chalk, it really stays on the tip, not on your hands. You will be surprised how clean the shaft stays, or YOUR MONEY BACK.
 
Been using tan for years on Simonis green at home and at local pool halls with green cloth. No adverse effects on cloth. Don't like blue shafts on my cues. Just sayin'.

cardit
Mike
 
Patrick Johnson said:
If you use non-blue chalk in a public pool hall, I hope you clean the table afterwards. If you don't, please stay out of my room.

pj <- ditto for talc
chgo
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I use gold/tan on my home table. The local pool room owner does not allow colors other than blue, which I respect. But he allows talc, which IMO is much worse.
 
Coincidentally, this product sample just arrived at my local pool hall today. It's a stick of talc, kind of like the talc cones you see some places, but since it's small and personal (and kinda expensive at $9.95 MSRP) it might be used more carefully.

It's apparently a new product being distributed by Midwest Chalk Company in Gwinn, MI (906-346-3751).

pj
chgo

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When I got my first nice cue I started using some tan chalk because I didn't want it to turn blue. The tan chalk definitely showed up on the cloth, and other players commented on it, so I stopped using it. It definitely didn't show up on the shaft though.

Now I embrace the blue and I look forward to my shaft getting that nice dark patina. I just got a new cue, my first ever custom ordered one, and I look forward to that all too clean looking shaft getting some nice blueing. Maybe it's because I don't expect to ever be selling it so resale is a non-issue for me.

(I am still super particular about wiping my tip off before putting it into my case though...in light of the above, I'm not really sure why...)
 
Thanks for the responses. The brown came in (lol), but I also just got a box of gold/tan and grey as well.

I'm going to try them all and maybe write a review from the standpoint of which stains less, and which leaves the least amount of streaks on the felt.
 
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