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You should use a green marker around the numbers to restore that English. It's like lifting a veil from your game.

On a more serious note, good english requires a good tip on the end of the cue. It needs to "grip" the ball during the millisecond of contact.

I didn’t actually buy it; I won it in a game from a punk that most definitely didn’t know what he had. It was one of the original cues made before the company was sold. It’s getting the grip re-wound now. A local guy makes cues and he’s doing the work, and making me a custom stick. He’s in his 70’s and it takes him about a year, but he makes beautiful stuff, exactly the way you want.

Well at least now the cue is in someones hands that can appreciate what it is. I was out yesterday and was looking at one of these, they are a beautiful piece of work.

Sweet!! Not too flashy, and not too boring. Just right. I prefer 18oz with an ity bitty tip myself for shooting, and break with the bar cues.

I was talking to the guy that was working there and he was showing me one that he had for sale. He told me he would let it go for 50% off of retail, I'm really considering it. I too like an 18 oz with a medium tip (Le Pro). I use a dimes contour to shape the tip.

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On a more serious note, good english requires a good tip on the end of the cue. It needs to "grip" the ball during the millisecond of contact.

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Regular "picking" and shaping of the cue tip should help with this. I personally shape to the edge of a nickel, and I use a hard tip, but I don't play many masse shots.

Phenolic balls (or ivory if you've got a really old set) don't lose their "action" over time, though chips, nicks and being generally dirty can affect how they play.

I recently moved over to 9-ball from a misspent youth playing Snooker and Boston... it's a new and interesting challenge. Focuses a lot of your game on your leave.

Bren R.

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It's like lifting a veil from your game.

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OK, Ken. Here I am catching up on the last few days of posts and that's you second reference to the "veil"... and I'm callin' you out on it!

For all the BS I DO hear and read about in terms of descriptions, this is one of the very, very few that make sense to me! It's not my fault that some use it in reference to power cords!

To me, "lifting a veil" works well because I think it has a visual equivalent... and I would describe a "veiled sound" as "the highs in particular not being sharp or defined...just not "clear" sounding".

Going from my old TimeFrame 400's to my Axioms was definitely, absolutely like lifting a veil as my other speakers had crappy tweeters and the Axioms are "crisp"!

That's as may be, but it is the most overused term in audio hokum. Well, that and "warm, sweet."

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That's as may be, but it is the most overused term in audio hokum

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waitaminnit, i thought it was "Bose"??