Ok, so it's been a few weeks and I throw my two cents on the performance of V10.
This isn't some miracle chalk that prevents anything. If you ride the edge of the miscue limit then expect to miscue. Sorry for interjecting this shot of reality but this chalk will not overcome physics.
What I have found interesting is that after miscueing, you're going to have to look real hard for the spot it occurred on the tip. You'll see it for sure, but it doesn't jump out at you like it would with say Master or Triangle. With those you'd clearly see that tell tale clear spot on the tip. With V10, the chalk is still there enough to colour the tip, but real thin like you have just wipped the tip off for putting the cue in your case.
Minimal effort required to load up the tip. I can rechalk entriely with two cue spinning swipes with V10. Masters/Triangle requires a little more diligence in application if you're paying any attention. The extra effort with the other two may boil down to less to exposure to humidity (I generally play in the winter months), but none the less the V10 does seem to coat well with less effort. In retrospect. this perceived ease in chalking may just be a matter of the chalk holding on better than Master/Triangle, (note previous comment on finding miscue location).
I read it somewhere here on AZB that V10 will provide more CB action. I have not experienced this. I'm sure whoever that person(s) was, is simply a better player than I.
I have not experienced any need to shape my tip more so than I would normally using Triangle/Master. Not sure what timeline is for this perceived 'abrasive benefit' threshold for Masters might be. I thought about researching the phenomena just to have a benchmark but lost interest rather quickly..., as in immediately.
Most improtantly... The chalk is extremely clean. I struggled to find any residue on my CB at home. I keep a pristine one for playing 14.1 and it remains as clean after hours of use as it was when I first placed it on the table. Now to my simple mind. If there
was chalk on the tip, and there's no chalk on the CB. That means it's either floating in the air, or resting on my table. So unless Taom has developed anti-gravity tech into their V10 product then I assume everything that required replacing on my tip is now on my table. So, using that logic, there's only three things that could potentially make V10 cleaner for your table.
- You require less applications. Therefore there's less opprotunity for excessive chalk to blow off the tip and rest on the table.
- You're more attentive during application. I found I was paying extreme attention to the application of the V10 , so excessive chalking (over loading) is not a problem. Therefore less chalk material available to blow off the tip and land on the table.
- The colour. It's a very soft green, and I'd wager difficult to visually pick up on any colour table cloth. That said, I have seen some very faint chalk streaks on my 3 day old cloth at home. I just finished relcothing my table (tourney blue) and let the kids have some fun. Under instruction to only use the V10, (only thing available). Now they're chalk drillers as I haven't taught them the correct way to chalk a cue. So I'm going to assume they've really loaded up the tips and probably miscued badly...lol
All in all, am I happy with the purchase of V10...? Well I'm not unhappy...lol. Would I buy it again...? Well I bought 5 pieces with won money so unless I lose all of them I should have a lifetime supply. Assuming I'm in a position where I no longer have it, and need to buy chalk, would I buy V10...?..., I doubt it. The only potential upside that I haven't experienced yet might be the whole table cloth cleaniness thing. However enough debris gets on the table that semi-regular vacuuming would be prudent maintenance. Can't imagine avoiding that task so long that this reported beneift of V10 matters in the grand scheme.
