What do you do with chalk when it gets low?
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I tell it a joke, offer to buy it a drink and try to cheer it up. I hate to see anything sad
I've swiped the Magic for c. ten weeks. I swiped and sanded the Blue Diamond also. The Master, I merely rotated around the tip, but for not as long, as I switched to BD, and then to MC.
I concentrated on swiping thinking it was the thing to do. It would improve my miscue performance, and keep my ferrule cleaner. Neither occurred.
I feel like an experienced player as I swipe my tip, but in all honesty, cannot see any benefit of doing so. I feel once the cube has been slightly broken in, that a gentle rubbing of the tip with a circular, off angle motion of the chalk is equally as effective as the "He must be good. Look how he chalks his tip" approach. Thoughts? Perhaps I'm missing something...??? :shrug:
The hard foam sanding block is a piece of the original that I purchased at Lowes. It cuts easily with a single edged razor or a serrated knife. It takes down the sides quickly and very uniformly, and also maintains a sharp wrapper top profile. Maybe 2 or 3 bucks...
I concentrated on swiping thinking it was the thing to do. It would improve my miscue performance, and keep my ferrule cleaner. Neither occurred.
I feel like an experienced player as I swipe my tip, but in all honesty, cannot see any benefit of doing so. I feel once the cube has been slightly broken in, that a gentle rubbing of the tip with a circular, off angle motion of the chalk is equally as effective as the "He must be good. Look how he chalks his tip" approach. Thoughts? Perhaps I'm missing something...??? :shrug:
The hard foam sanding block is a piece of the original that I purchased at Lowes. It cuts easily with a single edged razor or a serrated knife. It takes down the sides quickly and very uniformly, and also maintains a sharp wrapper top profile. Maybe 2 or 3 bucks...
Still trying to get my head around that math....
Thinking of starting a small company for recycling blue Masters combined with Kamui...
...Make-up for Smurfs.
Seeking investors....guaranteed to double your money 3.5% of the time.
are yes.. sarcasm humour - hard for the colonials to undesrtand
Learn how to chalk right... and it never gets "low".
Next.
Dale(world class chalker at large)
You can do anything you want, you're still wasting your time.....
.....'cause it's still gonna be feeling blue
I wondered the same about collecting a bunch of used chalk (all types) and pressing them back into reformed usable hybrid pieces! (Anyone do this?)
It sounds like you chalk the same way I do. When I dont need to work real hard on the layout I just pick up the chalk with my bridge hand and drill a big hole kind of. I dont have a problem getting chalk on my ferrule, probably because I dont wear the chalk real deep. If I need to stop and think about what to do at the table I will likely swipe the chalk on my cue and look at the tip at the same time to make sure its covered well, same with break cue.
Lmao, love the story because I worked in a bowling alley for 6 years and I know the hell of cleaning pins.
Robvandam
PooOooL
I use the tip tapper portion of my ultimate tip tool to sand the chalk down. Alternatively I just cut the edges down.
Though now that I've switched to kamui chalks I find myself naturally chalking more deliberately to get a more evenly worn down cube and hence reducing the need to cut corners and waste that precious material! Hahaha
Though now that I've switched to kamui chalks I find myself naturally chalking more deliberately to get a more evenly worn down cube and hence reducing the need to cut corners and waste that precious material! Hahaha
Just this morning I had to use the utility knife to trim down the paper on the edges of the cube of Magic Chalk. I'm a "swiper" not a "grinder", so I don't leave a big hole in the middle of the cube.
This is what I do with my chalk too.
That's the best idea I've heard. I'm gonna sell less chalk that way, but I also believe in not being wasteful
I can't believe I'm the 57th poster in this thread. Some say if you chalk right it never gets low. Some are grinders. some are swipers. Are different opinions acceptable in this regard or is there only ONE proper way of chalking. If so, would someone please describe it ?
See my photos in post 44. As far as longevity and even practicality, I don't think it matters one way or the other. I religiously swiped the Magic for weeks, and the only result was considerably more chalk on my bridge hand. I think the classic Snooooker swipe with the grip hand is an even greater waste of time. See my photo of the Magic. Any concientious movement of the chalk over a stationary tip is fine. No need to make it unnecessarily complicated.
