Hello,
I´m sorry as this got a bit lenghty.
I´ve searched high and low as a lurker around this wonderful well of pool knowledge and elsewhere and found just one example of using acrylic for a ferrule, but no info about how it plays.
I´m teaching my hand some things up from scratch again after an injury, so I´ve lost almost everything from technique and subconscious "feedback library" I had. Well, I hand´t ever my own cue in the past, I poked the balls with house broomsticks, or borrowed cues of friends of mine, some of them of pretty decent quality. To learn again and get a hint about what to have custom made, I acuired something what seems like old medium-line Players or so grade of cue, well used-but surprisingly straight and quite good piece of wood on the shaft.
I want to use it to learn again and as a cheap test bed to get idea what I like and what I don´t like with the hand I have now.
I need a new ferrule for it, because the one which was "fitted" has all inner diameters oversized and the thread is tapped crooked, resulting in very uneven wall thickness and even with my still "semi-dead" hand I can tell that the squirt varies wildly because of this.
I liked "medium-hard" ferrule-ivory is great, a sharp tackdriver, but for an experienced player which I´m not. Linen or cotton phenolic are still too hard for my taste.
ABS-or some plastic along these lines-this was +/- OK, but I have no idea which breed of it it was, so the info is pretty useless, as these plastics varies a lot in mechanical properties.
Other ferrules I played with-I have no idea about what the material was.
Given what I have on hand and within reach, a piece of Perspex bar is the lightest material I have around. So I´m thinking of using this, which has the added benefit of being black, so better to see where the tip is relative to CB.
The ferrule is for 2/3 threaded 5/16-18 tennon, originaly 1" long, capped, 12,7 mm shaft. I can go along these lines, or make it uncapped and I can use thin coton-phenolic or carbon board under the tip.
Any opinions about this? If acrylic is known for poor performance or just straight shitty hit, please let me know. All decent ferrules I could locate are just undersized for 3/8 thread, so no viable options except some PVC or so material which I don´t care for, being too soft with a dud hit for my taste.
Thank you very much
I´m sorry as this got a bit lenghty.
I´ve searched high and low as a lurker around this wonderful well of pool knowledge and elsewhere and found just one example of using acrylic for a ferrule, but no info about how it plays.
I´m teaching my hand some things up from scratch again after an injury, so I´ve lost almost everything from technique and subconscious "feedback library" I had. Well, I hand´t ever my own cue in the past, I poked the balls with house broomsticks, or borrowed cues of friends of mine, some of them of pretty decent quality. To learn again and get a hint about what to have custom made, I acuired something what seems like old medium-line Players or so grade of cue, well used-but surprisingly straight and quite good piece of wood on the shaft.
I want to use it to learn again and as a cheap test bed to get idea what I like and what I don´t like with the hand I have now.
I need a new ferrule for it, because the one which was "fitted" has all inner diameters oversized and the thread is tapped crooked, resulting in very uneven wall thickness and even with my still "semi-dead" hand I can tell that the squirt varies wildly because of this.
I liked "medium-hard" ferrule-ivory is great, a sharp tackdriver, but for an experienced player which I´m not. Linen or cotton phenolic are still too hard for my taste.
ABS-or some plastic along these lines-this was +/- OK, but I have no idea which breed of it it was, so the info is pretty useless, as these plastics varies a lot in mechanical properties.
Other ferrules I played with-I have no idea about what the material was.
Given what I have on hand and within reach, a piece of Perspex bar is the lightest material I have around. So I´m thinking of using this, which has the added benefit of being black, so better to see where the tip is relative to CB.
The ferrule is for 2/3 threaded 5/16-18 tennon, originaly 1" long, capped, 12,7 mm shaft. I can go along these lines, or make it uncapped and I can use thin coton-phenolic or carbon board under the tip.
Any opinions about this? If acrylic is known for poor performance or just straight shitty hit, please let me know. All decent ferrules I could locate are just undersized for 3/8 thread, so no viable options except some PVC or so material which I don´t care for, being too soft with a dud hit for my taste.
Thank you very much