Why is most Cue Chalk "Blue"?

Pangit

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There doesn't seem to be any advantge with Blue chalk over any other color??? It's pretty much food coloring? Until TV pool, Green cloth was the standard, yet "pool" players tend to prefer blue Chalk, why? Snooker Players on the other hand Prefer Green, matches the cloth, it makes perfect sense? Nothing worse than some "hot shot" showing up with Master Gold.
 
searched web, here's what the pro's say...
billiard cue chalk is primarily blue because, it blends with green cloth and is partly invisible when powder dust falls to table.
 
Because its very sad.


Actually it does blend in with green cloth better than green for some reason. Also it 'used' to be that the dyes used for blue were less staining than other colors,red being the worst IIRC.
 
Not really answering your question but I use tan. Keeps the cue looking nicer. I don't chalk over the table so it doesn't end up on the cloth. :cool:
 
Pangit said:
Nothing worse than some "hot shot" showing up with Master Gold.
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Sure there is. Some know-it-all that whines about everything and loses to the "hot shot" league player(maybe one of Thaiger's lady boys) that uses Master Gold. :rolleyes:
 
Blue chalk is just bummed out from seeing these ridiculous threads you create. Ever heard of google?
 
I thought Chalk was Blue because it was Deliver by Shaffer Trucking in Blue Trucks.
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Can't say what the exact historical reason is, but here's why blue makes sense:

- You don't want chalk blending completely into the cloth so that it's hard to see, because you want to be able to see if the table is dirty and needs some cleaning before you play on it. So forget simonis green or tournament blue colored chalk.

- At the same time, you don't want it to stand out so much it's makes the table look horrible and distracts you, so forget yellow, red, brown, light gray, white, etc. etc. chalk.

So blue is the perfect compromise. Blends with the green, but not completely.

I suppose in a perfect world, green would be fine if you could trust the room owner to make sure every table is thoroughly cleaned every night.
 
It just is !

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Hey, how exactly is a rainbow made?







How exactly does the sun set?







How exactly does the posi-trac

rear end on a Plymouth work?







-It just does.

-It just does.
 
I think it's because historically, at least in this country, blue chalk was considered to be the highest quality, for some reason. But another reason I can think of is that with the older napped cloth, for example, Brunsco, when it aged, it actually turned from green to a bit of a blue shade. If you've played in pool rooms before Simonis became popular, you may remember this. So the blue chalk actually went well with aged cloth. I'm not even sure why that older cloth tended to fade to blue, but it did.
 
WildWing said:
I think it's because historically, at least in this country, blue chalk was considered to be the highest quality, for some reason. But another reason I can think of is that with the older napped cloth, for example, Brunsco, when it aged, it actually turned from green to a bit of a blue shade. If you've played in pool rooms before Simonis became popular, you may remember this. So the blue chalk actually went well with aged cloth. I'm not even sure why that older cloth tended to fade to blue, but it did.
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It didn't fade to blue from all the blue chalk dust did it?
 
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