www.seyberts.com
The chalk is not staining the table. There might be a puff of chalk coming off of the cue tip when striking the cue ball, but any good quality chalk will do that very thing. What ever marks that might be left on the table afterwards comes off with ease. When marks like mentioned above happen with the Masters they were more difficult to remove than when using the Taom chalk. I am using the Simionis cloth dohickey to clean my table now instead of anything else, before with the old chalk the thing didn't really do much in my opinion, now it's like a magic wand when cleaning the cloth, everything comes clean with the first pass while using it.,,my 2 cents issued
I do similar. I glue a steel washer to the bottom of the chalk, and keep a couple strong neodymium magnets in my pocket. I might change this though, as the magnets are too strong and my clothes are prematurely wearing out where my chalk clips.
Yeah, I always wondered about that also. And all the blue chalks I've had leave quite visible marks on tourney blue simonis, so the whole color thing seems pretty overblown to me. That said, surely we can all agree that red chalk is absolutely the worst, it's the only chalk I really can't stand, unfortunately one of my local bars with semi decent pool scene has red beater Valley's & red master chalk.
Usually nothing to clean up for me as both are very clean. I do a weekly pass with the Simonis X-1 cleaning tool and the 860HR always looks new.
.I gave a piece of Taom V10 to a buddy of mine to try out. He’s a very good player who also owns / manages a poolroom not far away. He is very picky about his chalk and has tried them all. He’s returning it to me, and his feedback was that it puts too much spin on the cue ball. I kind of thought that was strange and wondered what others who’ve used it on here thought of that response, as I’d not heard that criticism from anyone? - Thanks
I have been using Taom for the past few weeks and I do get more spin, but I like that. I have tried every chalk out there and this, to me, is the best yet. I have more chalk than i know what to do with now. Lol.
Its a good question. From my brief experiments (hitting racks for a few hours), it seems largely the same in feel/play, but leaves even less residue. Its pretty great as far as cleanliness goes - but I feel more comfy with slightly grittier traditional cube shaped chalks just because that whats I’m used to and I think the overall longevity/cleanliness benefits come at the “cost” of fairly radically changing ones chalking habits, which I’m not really into at the moment. IMO, it just comes down to personal preference, like CF shafts there is no magic pill, and I don’t find its actual performance to be better/worse, but it does have a slightly different feel, which again takes some adjustment. For some that will be better, some worse. There is no doubt that its the cleanest for sure, most notably the CB accumulates zero marks with either of the Taoms, as far as I can tell. As an example, the practical difference for me vs my preferred Russian Magic on home table - is that I wipe the CB on my shirt or spin it on the rail a few times every few racks, where thats just not needed with the Taoms.
For me, the difference is clearly way less miscues with the V10 than with the Pyro.
That alone makes it worth giving a try. Thank you!
