Not selling it here?
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=237072&highlight=micarta
Not only were you selling it here, you were selling it for far more than i have ever heard of the real westinghouse being sold for. I'm not saying you did anything wrong, buyer beware and all, but you have to admit when it comes to micarta, people looking for it are looking for the one kind, and while you state yours is GE, you also refer to it as the real deal, and alot of folks don't know the difference. I have owned more cues than i can remember with real westinghouse on them, and have still been bamboozeled more than once when it comes to the stuff. My fault for being ignorant, and trusting, i know. Still........ Back in the day, when it was readily available, i don't remember it ever being even close to as popular as ivory, and i've personally had more micarta ferrules replaced with ivory, than i care to remember, and knew many other people that did the same. Part of me says kudos to you if you can find suckers that'll pay $70 a piece for the GE stuff, and the other part says, WOW, what a crook.
Don't feel bad, i feel the same way when i put gas in the car, or even buy a gallon of milk these days. F'n crooks, lol
Dan,
Bringing up a thread I made last year in the for sale area is and has nothing to do with this topic by the OP in Ask the CM. Many people would look at this link you have put up to make it look like I am being duplicitous and assume it was part of this Micarta post and not from a year ago. As we know a lot of people don't read entire threads and just look at a recent page. Your spinning and people who spin try to mix up time lines and chronologies to try to discredit. :grin-devilish: Magicians call this subterfuge "misdirection in time". That is what political attack dogs do when the shill for someone else as a confederate while spinning their info. BTW, 70.00 is cheap as I know CMs who charge as much as 150.00 for one Westinghouse Micarta ferrule.
The micarta I have is paper asbestos Micarta that was rolled in rod form. The chart I posted clearly shows the vast difference in hardness than the pressed Westinghouse stuff comparatively due to the structure of the paper aggregate and the resin formula, I guess? Yet even though it is much harder is has a very quiet or soft resonance compared to other ferrule materials over the 93 hardness range. Might I be so bold as to say it is kinda magical but that is what they have always said about real micarta.
Just because you or a lot of people have not been exposed to or owned GE Micarta means their arguments are flawed because they have no direct experience with the stuff I show in this thread. Tell me, how can you or anyone else speak intelligently about or knock any material that they have never seen, touched, machined or played pool with as a ferrule. I have done all four and was just trying to share this experience here.
Frankly it seems a little silly to me that they would expose them self to developing a point or a position from a negative basis. Everyone knows you can't win an argument trying to prove a negative. It is against Aristotelian logic.
Urban legends are so strong in this industry that most people who buy into them do so for life or the long haul......... and how dare anyone come up with anything that does not fit in their little box.
All I have been saying before the bashing or pissing started is that there is other paper laden asbestos micarta material that is out there, no more and no less. I never said it was better ( although I believe it and am now admitting it :duck
but I have the experience of being exposed to many of these materials. Not bashing one I have no experience with.
If you are right about me being a crook, that would mean that I was duped when I paid $ 2,500.00 for the rod. But if you have ever read any of my posts, I think you will find that I am a pretty circumspect person that does his homework, research and pays attention to detail and likes to follow the science. If you don't see that about me you have blinders on for some reason. Not only that I bough the piece from someone who has been in this industry for over 40 years who has esoteric knowledge in this area.
BTW, I am not a crook and am one of the most honest and generous people of the planet. IMO, That is of corse for others to determine so don't take my word for it.
You clearly have no skin in this game and I have noticed that you do post a lot of negative stuff by in large. So go ahead and spin for yourself or anyone else that you are shilling for. I will alway respond with logic. That is all I can do.
What I find interesting is that most of your posts often seem to have a agenda of negativity and you have no background info or anything in "About Me or even a location". Here is a quote form a recent post you made:
Anyone else think this is really John posting? Funny, he gets banned, and all the sudden this "Mike" starts with the spamming right away
Sometimes I wonder if there are not ghost people here that are someone else in disguise. It seems that you revealed that same thought in this post>>>>>>Could that be the pot calling the kettle black and maybe sometimes people get a little bold and their words tell on themselves. Ah.... but forget about that because I have no basis for that argument and I will admit that.
Rick
PS David from Switzerland clearly knows how to read, understand, and clearly has no skin in this game.
