MASTER BILLIARD & POOL CHALK
Master chalk 12 pieces $2.69 Best Buy lowest price. Freight, s&h 3.30 total price $5.99
To order, email to: fastlarrypool@bellsouth.net
Only use the best chalk, Master, and It is only 22 cents apiece. You can choose from blue, light green or darker spruce green, brown/gold, silver/gray, red/burgundy.
If you do not list a color we ship blue which will usually be in a 12 pc box but we reserve the right to ship the 12 pieces loose sealed in a zip lock bag in bubble wrap. This is the best way to ship it and to store it at home, sealed in a zip lock bag, and not in a box.
IMHO, as a pro player, Master is the best chalk and gives you the best coat with less miss cues. You can order several colors from us, but I find blue coats the best.
Some pros will say green is best, so that is up for debate. I have had a chemist test them, and my friend runs the 2nd largest chalk company and both agrees with me, green is more difficult to make, and it miss cues more definitely. Some will say all colors are the same play, do not believe it.
So Blue is the best, then brown, green, and red is the worst. Blue is best to carry because it can be used on the two most common clothes you will find in a pool hall, green or blue. Do not use it on Camel or beige as it will show up badly and be hard to remove.
Buy my cloth cleaner from my store to do that with. If you have a camel or light beige cloth, you must use the Brown/gold chalk. If you have a Red cloth, you must use red chalk. Do not use brown chalk on a green or blue cloth as it will show up and trash it as well. Chalk correctly and you do not get chalk on your fingers. You only get it on them, by grinding an old piece in the middle.
Chalk is inexpensive so you need to provide your own and stop thinking others will for you. How many places have you gone in only to find some off brand piece, will a hole to the bottom that did not work worth a flip. It only aggravated you and caused you to play worse via many miss cues and chalk stains all over your hands. Why do you put up with this, when you can buy a piece from me for only 22 cents.
So buy a box or bag of 12 pieces and store them in a room you live in that have stable temperatures and have AC. If we ship to you in a zip lock bag, keep them in that and sealed. Then put 3 pieces in a smaller plastic bag, or sandwich zip lock, and put inside a pack, or tube from a vitamin bottle, they absorb moisture and toss them in your pool case. The bag will keep the chalk dust off of your other things. Keep your chalk sealed and dry. This is really important in the south, areas of high humidity, during the summer, or when it’s raining. That moisture outside, gets inside the house and on your chalk.
Chalk is basically dirt in a wrap with a few things added to it to hold it together. They used to cut chunks of it out of the cliffs of Dover, dry them out in the sun, then cut them into smaller pieces and wrap paper around them to keep it off the fingers. The original pieces were white. Later they colored them to match the clothes as white showed up too much.
It acquires moisture easy and once it does, it does not dry out well. If it rains, your chalk picks it up. In the past, you may have had your draw one day go completely away, and your
English begin to fail and not apply well. You had no control over where the cue ball went and you lost badly. It could have been wet chalk. You can’t see it, but it will kill the action on your ball. If you can squeak the chalk applying it, then it’s probably Ok. If it won’t, then give it away, leave it on the rail when you go home. Or, put in on a pie pan; pop it in a hot oven for a few minutes to dry it out. Keeping chalk dry is quite important.
Always use a new piece. When mine begins to get a little crater in the middle, I give that piece away and break out a new one. Why, I only chalk on the 4 corners, never in the middle. I brush down on the tip with light but firm strokes trying to put an even, but very light coat on. You cannot do that grinding in the middle of the hole. You must chalk up before every shot, no matter how easy it may be.