Ok. So lets say you could figure it out. How could that be a positive (now) for most players who play pool when that would mean that the distance from center on the cue ball would drastically decrease for the use of effective "english"?? Which affects throw as well. That would also mean that a player would have to be WAY more precise when hitting the cue ball. Any slight distance from center could drastically affect the shot. Most players aren't ready nor would the recreational player ever be ready for that.
The cue is a freak. If you'd like to study it for it's physics properties to be used in some other way, great! I just think it wouldnt benefit the game.
Thats an interesting opinion which I don't quite understand at all. I will accept Deanoc at his word saying the cue was an outlier. It seems baffling to me that people would not want to know what makes the cue draw better than others. There are so many completely non-destructive things that could be done to analyze it.
1. Weight
2. Tip diameter
3. Ferrule length and material
4. Exact taper profile
5. Does another shaft on that same cue produce silly draw or is it shaft related only?
I sought out this thread because I had an interesting experience last night.
I have been searching for "the cue"
In my search, I have realized that I want a cue that is not so overly stiff. I was playing with a Lambros and Olney both which I really like but both are so stiff it is hard (for me at least) to hit finesse draw. So I switched to my Dominiak which is great and much less stiff. But I have read here that Dominiak cues are considered really stiff too.
So last night at league, I was trying to help a mid level player who says he cannot really draw the ball. He said that some 7 made a length of the table shot and drew back the length of the table. Bar box, so thats really not that much draw and in trying to help him learn how to draw he wanted to see if I could do that. I agreed and had to use his cue, which was some production cue with some gerneric LD shaft, not sure what. Anyway I hit the shot and drew almost 2 lengths of the table.
I had actually forgotten what a "whippy" cue was actually like!!
So in my search I am actually looking for fractional differences in stiff not really something that is more whippy.
In terms of this cue though that is relevant because here is a guy that cannot even draw with a cue that for me was freakishly easy to draw with. I assume of all those cues hit the same.
So it would seem to be important to figure out what made this cue a freak?
Was it accidentally very whippy?
Did it flex in an unusual place?
Was it especially light (or heavy) at the tip or maybe the last 6 inches of the shaft had an unusual wight distribution.
It seems wild to me that people would not be powerfully compelled to figure it out.
In terms of helping players, if you can figure out what makes this cue draw so much, then you might be able to use that information to tailor the design of the shaft for exact characteristics for each persons individual stroke.
Say you found that the cue drew so much because it was especially "flexy" at 9" from the tip. Well maybe you can "fit" the flex of a shaft to an individual stroke by adjusting the flex there, sort of like golf fits clubs to individual swings.
A lot of golf technology stems from outlier clubs like this that lead to breakthroughs in club design.
Same could happen here. Sticking it in a case somewhere like a mythical sword just seems especially silly to me.
