To uncover some answers, I decided to send an email to the main man over at Tweeten. The truth is, is comes from Tweeten in Chicago, and it’s sold to Italy from their old American formula created 30 years ago using lead and Mercury. They tell you that produced with a secret Longoni formula created over 30 years ago and you get it from the Italian Longoni company. But make that same item now $4 and tell everyone it’s much better, and they line up around the block to jump on it. The one thing I have learned about pool players is if you are selling something for 25 cents, and you raise the price to 35 cents nobody buys it. Other people think it’s just a bunch of marketing hooey and people are paying an insane amount of money for chalk.īlue master will cost you about 35 cents a cube and they are selling Blue diamond for $4 a cube. Some people swear by it, saying it is by far the best pool cue chalk on the market. We’ve all heard the stories about Blue Diamond Chalk. However, the proportion or ratio of dye has not changed and therefore the chalk's consistency has not changed, regardless of whether or not the dye was changed.įrom your friend and mine. So it may be true that at one time, the actual dye used in some chalk was different than it is today. Many many years ago, our illustrious government required certain dyes and colorants to be reformulated to exclude potentially harmful substances. That said, I will offer one little tidbit of info that is relevant to the obnoxious conspiracy rumor. Tweeten's ( Skip Nemecek ) family has been intimately involved in the development of chalk and tips for 100 years, working hand in hand with professional players along the way, so you simply will not find anyone with more knowledge and experience in this particular field. As previously pointed out, the climate of various parts of the country and world however do have an effect over time. The formulation of preflag is not different, and the method of production isn't either. Please feel free to ask me anything else that you desire. Triangle has a harder consistency then Master. To answer your second question, Master chalk was developed for the pool player while Triangle was developed for the billiard/snooker player. Again this is just a label and has nothing at all to do with the composition of the chalk. This means that it is purely chance as to which piece of chalk gets a flag label and which piece gets a non-flag label. Second, our chalk is counterfeited quite a bit and in an attempt to stay a step ahead of the counterfeiters we randomly use the flag and non-flag label every day. First, following 9/11 we as an American Company felt it was our way of showing our pride for the United States to place the flag on our chalk which goes all over the world. It's just a label and has nothing what-so-ever to do with the chalk. The simple answer is there is NO difference. I wish I had a nickel for every time I answered this question.
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