Save the chalk!

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BAZARUS

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How many of you can do that? ;)
 

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Frugal

I knew a guy who ran a pool hall and when the chalk started to get worn he would cut it down on a mitre box. So you would end up with a thin square sliver of chalk. Another frugal guy.
 
Originally posted by Rocky
Had to have been a snooker player! lol
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Aha...yes, you right about that, I've been playing snooker for about 2 years.


Originally posted by BooBoo
I knew a guy who ran a pool hall and when the chalk started to get worn he would cut it down on a mitre box. So you would end up with a thin square sliver of chalk. Another frugal guy.
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For someone like me, who was born and raise in a poor country there are many ways to save :p
 
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BooBoo said:
I knew a guy who ran a pool hall and when the chalk started to get worn he would cut it down on a mitre box. So you would end up with a thin square sliver of chalk. Another frugal guy.
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I do that too, but with great pain in my cheap old yankee heart I throw it out before it has holes in it. :)
 
I always keep a couple packs of matches in my pool case.

And what does that have to do with milking ducks?

They seldom get used as matches. I'm fairly good at remembering to fill my Zippo. The chalk holder that hangs from my pocket. As the chalk wears down below the plastic, I use the cardboard cover of the matches to stuff under the chalk and bring it to the top. Not to the point of the chalk pictured in this post though. :D
 
Originally posted by catscradle
I do that too, but with great pain in my cheap old yankee heart I throw it out before it has holes in it.
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How long does it take for you to get to this point?
I cannot always draw the hole in it, sometimes its just breaking in half. That piss me off, because it takes like 3 months to do that :eek:
 
Chalk

Some folks shave em down and glue them together so it stays the same size a new.
Purdman :cool:
Chalk is cheep.
 
New Organization P.E.T.C

That's right, I'm starting the People for Ethical Treatment of Chalk organization. The talk I hear in this board just pains me in my heart. Everyone should just let their chalk run wild. I mean come on, I hear chalk cubes screaming throughout the world as pool players tap, and scrape, and rub until the poor little cubes are nothing more than shadows of their former selves. Little, holey nubs, or cracked in half...How would any of you feel if you were treated in this way?
 
shakes said:
That's right, I'm starting the People for Ethical Treatment of Chalk organization. The talk I hear in this board just pains me in my heart. Everyone should just let their chalk run wild. I mean come on, I hear chalk cubes screaming throughout the world as pool players tap, and scrape, and rub until the poor little cubes are nothing more than shadows of their former selves. Little, holey nubs, or cracked in half...How would any of you feel if you were treated in this way?
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LOL :D

Can I be on board?
 
I was too disturbed yesterday to comment.

Viewing this picture is kinda like catching a glimpse of ones own naked grandmother. A situation that most would rather avoid.

Rick
 
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My chalk looks the same as that, but you did a great job to wear the hole without it breaking up. Mine always break before they get to that point, but I'll go on using the biggest broken peice for a while, because it takes a few days to get a new block of chalk worn down to the right shape.

Chalking with a new square block of chalk is a pain.

btw: It's interesting to see the different patterns some players produce in their chalk. It is a type of signature. Some guys have a cross at 90 degrees to the edges and others are diagonal at 45 degrees. Some dig an ugly bowl that ends up painting the ferrule and shaft (on a snooker cue with short ferrule).
 
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Chalking with a new square block of chalk is a pain.


Try grinding a quarter into the small indentation on the new chalk. Should take a couple of days off of the breaking in process.

Lunchmoney
 
lunchmoney said:
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Chalking with a new square block of chalk is a pain.


Try grinding a quarter into the small indentation on the new chalk. Should take a couple of days off of the breaking in process.

Lunchmoney
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You guys have been watching Earl chalk his cue too long. The perfect shape for chalk is flat, no hole and should be applied, quote: Minnesota Fats, like a beautiful woman applies makeup. Earl is the only top player that has blue chalk around his ferrule. Virtually all the other top players apply chalk to the tip and don't spin the tip in the cube of chalk. Watch Buddy Hall, Mike Segal, Miz, Efren, etc. All with totally clean ferrules.
 
I've see Ralf chalking extreamly carefully. He owns a chalk, that never stays on a table. I saw him once in a match, when he forgot to take a chalk after a miss shot, and he came back rapidly almost disturbing his opponent, that was about to shoot.
 
hemicudas said:
You guys have been watching Earl chalk his cue too long. The perfect shape for chalk is flat, no hole and should be applied, quote: Minnesota Fats, like a beautiful woman applies makeup. Earl is the only top player that has blue chalk around his ferrule. Virtually all the other top players apply chalk to the tip and don't spin the tip in the cube of chalk. Watch Buddy Hall, Mike Segal, Miz, Efren, etc. All with totally clean ferrules.
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Exactly right $Bill. Taking a quarter and making the hole bigger helps flatten it out faster is all. I cringe when I see the blue ring around the ferrule. My son is a prime example. I never noticed Earl's chalking technique, thanks for the heads up.

Lunchmoeny.

PS The e-mails you've been sending me are top notch! Hopefully you are enjoying the ones that I am sending you. Just came home from a 10 hour one pocket match with a player I have a hard time against. Broke even tonight, feeling good. I know, wrong forum. LOL
 
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