Hi Don this is fast. Frankly I don't give a damn if you play with a quarter shapes, I know what works. The trouble with these forums is people come on and say this, another says that, and soon you have 5 opinions of what to do. Obviously 4 of them are wrong. Trying to sort through all of this stuff and know what to do is the problem. Don, I never said I know more than you and everyone else on the planet, you said that. I never said that. I learn something new every day that is why I know a lot. I spent years testing things to know why they do what they do. On the forums every one is an expert, everyone has an opinion. Everyone knows more than me. I don't know nuttin, just read these 4 pages of this thread, all the blud dealers will tell you that.
I get upset when I see people post things I know are wrong and don't work, like to draw the ball hit low and level with a long follow through, that one drives me insane also.
Just because I post on a Christian forum does not make me a monk or a saint. I am a real pool player; I am not a priest or a minister. Read my post there, I said I am a lousy Christian and a sinner. I am trying to become a better Christian. Making me took at it from that perspective, they you are right, I could have and should have been more diplomatic. I will endeavor to do that in the future.
This was the post I made: Dear Blud, you used a nickel when Ike was in office and tricky dick was veep. Today, use a dime.
Going back and looking at that, what I said, it was not that bad. It could have been better said, but there is no attack there.
He took that and escalated this into where it is now. I have no desire to continue this with him. You know where I stand on this issue, use a dime, period. I am not going to fight you over this.
You want to listen to him and use a nickel, go for it. It's a free country. I am off this post. Trash me all you want to punish me for speaking my mind, I don't care, it does not matter.
Brag about my accomplishments, read the 9 pages blud has written bragging about what he has done just on this thread alone, he just broke the world record for bragging dude.
Just because a guy puts on a lot of tips does not means he's right or knows, that was my point. The forums are full of players living in the past, some are up to date, others are decades out of date. Every forum has these people. They are dug into what they think is right. There is a saying; old dogs never learn new tricks. I am an old dog, but I force my self to learn something new every day of my life. I am not dug into any positions on anything.
I have said many times, all I know is I know nothing, the more I learn, the more I know I don't know. I know a lot because I have been draining the brains of people who were experts for the last 50 years. What they knew, I now have.
Putting on a tip right is an art forum, it is so vital and critical I won't do it by my self, I have only one guy I trust with this. I won't change a tip on the road. I have several shafts and I bring the shaft home to be re tipped. Saying Wonder dog could do it was of course a little silly. I don't trust strangers with this. I did, some were good, and some were not. The guys who show up at the big tourneys are experts. Not every guy doing tips behind the counter of every pool hall are.
There are two issues here. The guy can put on a tip perfect like Ray Schuler did for me, then shape the tip wrong. That was my point, so I got out my file and sanding the angle from a nickel to a dime, a few strokes and its now fine. No big deal. Every player will find the shape that works for him, different strokes for different folks. The final shape of the tip should be the player’s job to install with his hand file. He should not trust the tip installer to provide that for him. Once he finds the angle that gives him his best performance he should learn how to file that and maintain that on his tip.
Saying I have made world records with my dime shape tip is not bragging, it's fact, it was printed in every magazine on Earth, I just asked Blud how many world records he's made using his nickel shape and tip, the answer is none. I do not accomplish what I have done not knowing what works and what does not work. Yes I do know, I can't help that.
There is a bunch of custom cue makers running around who can't run 3 friggin balls so how will they ever know if their cue actually plays worth a flip. Many of these same guys make a cue that does not play worth a flip. They make a pretty cue that costs a lot of money. I call them pretty wall hangers, I have several of them. I collect them like mugs I hang on the wall and never drink beer out of. I drink beer out of a mason jar, same with my wine and scotch. Yes I have fine crystal glasses; I just prefer my canning jars to use. Ok I can't wait to see this one in print, Fast drinks booze from a jelly jar and jumps with a $4 mop.
Just because a guy makes a custom cue that sells for a lot of money that does not make him an expert on how a cue plays or performs. I am telling you there are guys out there that do not have a clue. Just a few, not many, but they are there. No names please. Most players know the cues you only buy to collect and hang on the wall but would not be caught dead trying to win with one. After a while these guys begin to pontificate and begin to sell themselves that they are the guru on everything. The players who really know run around tearing their hair out listening to some of the things these guys write.
Throwing stones on him, yeh I probably did, that was probably uncalled for and a little rude, I could have worded that better. Sorry. This guy posts this crap and he drives me wild. I try not to even read what the guy writes so he won’t set me off but I sort of stumbled into this one by accident. If you try to make a living in the pool world and then try and be a perfect Christian and follow all of the teachings of Jesus you soon come to the conclusion this is impossible. You soon have a congo line formed with people getting ready to hump you.
Yes I realize I must learn how to love everyone, even those I have had bad blood with in the past. I am trying hard how to learn to do this. It is working slowly. I am making slow progress. Ok, I will try to learn how to love Blud, I will try. I don’t know if I can do it, but I will try.
He thinks the ivory ferrule is the best, bad out of date by 50 years, a soft tip is best, bad out of date by a decade. A stiff shaft is best, deflects like a mother, out of date by a decade and a nickel shape is best for the tip, draws like a dog and is out of date by 20 years. On page one he is telling you a flat tip draws great, I am going flat tip? Bang De Boom. It's all bad advice, I am saying, don't do this. I gotta stop jumping in here and trying to save you guys from this crap. It's probably best I just shut up and let them dump this crap on you and wish you the best for you to be able to figger out what is real and what is not. There is no reward for me doing this, it's all downhill negative crap.
Ok, I said it, now you don't like it so he's your pal so you come in to call me names. Purdy, does two wrongs make a right? Blud gets his dealers who have a vested interest in his cue to all come in and gang up on me and to trash me. Then he comes on behind them to do same. Here we go again, been there, done this one before. He takes one little sentence I wrote and tries to flame this into a get Fast thread. Everybody runs and hides and nobody comes in to protect my right of free speech. The people I am trying to save and help let them put the rope around my neck and hang me.
Ok my opponents will say my own big mouth probably hangs my self and there is some truth to this. A lot of this is trying to shut up my voice so I will stop exposing so many things. This is my final comments on this post. I don't have time for this. I am off to Bali and singapore.
Catch my show, I jump over a full ball, I make a 2 in 2 masse like the one in the Hustler movie. I draw table length; I run the table using a $4 Kmart mop handle with no tip on the end. I do shape my end of my wood mop into a dime shape however. You go oh there he goes bragging again, no, no; no brag, just fact, if I do it I am reporting a fact. Then is no brag, just fact. Who do you think really knows, me, the guy making the tip work and setting world records with it or the guy who glued the tip on the end of my stick for me for ten bucks. According to blud, who ever puts on the most tips then becomes the world wide guru and expert on this subject. I love the guy’s logic and how his brain works, it's amazing. Using his logic, does that mean if I have blopped my baloney more than any one else in the country then I am the worlds greatest lover? I would love to see Blud get on TV with Yogi Berra, I would tune in for that one for sure.
The best jump cue I have is my mop with no tip. Now the jump cue guys making cues will come in after me. The people who do not like me spilling the beans and telling it like it is and are on my case so much are the ones who are my competitors or the ones selling and promoting the thing I just went after. The play is let’s gang up, trash the guy, hurt him bad, then he will shut up and never bother us again. That is why nobody in pool will say a damn thing, they are all afraid to speak out on anything. The result is there is no free speech in the game and why it's hard to find so many things out. There is no free speech because you won't protect the ones who do speak out in your behalf.
