RefrainReyes
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Yes?A lot of predators with unilocs have lasted for years and years and won a lot of championships.
Yes?A lot of predators with unilocs have lasted for years and years and won a lot of championships.
That may be, but my point was that they are solid and play no different or worse than anything else. And were/are fine on Predator cues which are a great product.IMO Uni-locs were a gimmick for lazy people. Never seen the need to assemble/dis-assemble my cue that fast.
Can’t disagree. I’ve loved every 5/16:14 I’ve owned. Never had even the slightest issue. Solid and classicSubjective. I prefer 5/16 14.
I was responding to the whippy shaft of the Meucci does nothing in a previous post.That's more cue/shaft taper than joint. Don't you think?
It wasn't the flex in the shaft. Only tip offset amount without a miscue determines how much spin you get. 3C players use SUPER stiff shafts and spin the living hell out of it. I owned some of the really good Original Meucci's and never saw any more spin than my stiffer cues. Just another 'poolism'.I was responding to the whippy shaft of the Meucci does nothing in a previous post.
I really don't know why but I could draw the cue ball with much less effort with the Meucci then the Schon.
The Meucci took a couple of weeks to adjust to.
Sadly it fell apart and warped in 6 months.
You might be right, I just thought it feels different to me. Let's call it personal preference hahaMost of what people call 'feel' has nada to do with the joint. Shaft size/taper, ferrule material, and the tip have WAY more effect than the joint. Take a selection of cues with different joint types and cover the joints. You'd be hard pressed to tell what the joint was by feel. This test was done yrs ago on the TexasExpressTour and virtually no-one(70%) could pick the right joint after hitting the cues. One guy was a Meucci staff player and the cue he chose after hitting the test cues was steel-joint ADAM cue.
My point is the joint does NOT determine how a cue hits/feels to any important degree. That test i mentioned had over 50 players test 16 cues each. That's 800+ test hits and over 70% could NOT tell what joint was in what cue. Most couldn't even identify their own cue.You might be right, I just thought it feels different to me. Let's call it personal preference haha
Not spin but draw.It wasn't the flex in the shaft. Only tip offset amount without a miscue determines how much spin you get. 3C players use SUPER stiff shafts and spin the living hell out of it. I owned some of the really good Original Meucci's and never saw any more spin than my stiffer cues. Just another 'poolism'.
Agree! I remember this one really great player in my area, Randy, was a monster with his Meucci. On the 4 x 8 anyone could get it. He bought himself this beautiful Schon....and his game dropped by like 3 balls LOL...he was so frustrated he had to go back. Those Meucci's played great! they were the PREDATOR of their day. Made pool easier to play for everyone, but yes the QC wasn't always good!I was responding to the whippy shaft of the Meucci does nothing in a previous post.
I really don't know why but I could draw the cue ball with much less effort with the Meucci then the Schon.
The Meucci took a couple of weeks to adjust to.
Sadly it fell apart and warped in 6 months.
You revived a 12 year old post to say..... that?
wasn’t there some kind of blind pepsi challenge done where they taped off the joints to see if any players could tell the difference in pins?
i want to say i remember reading about that on here at one point but would love a source. From what i recall nobody could tell the difference
I’m exactly the same way. I was using Sniper tips, layered layered layered… switched to French Champions and milk duds. It is a weird feeling going in and having the very guy, who designed your current layered tip, cut it off to put on a single layer tip. There’sa little fun smack talk, but he’s a good sportNow THAT is what i call a post!
Haha, thanks for the info! I like reading old posts too. Tiger is a great company, i used to play with one of their layered tips and it hit really well. if I hadn’t went back to single layer i would probably still be using them
Draw IS spin. A Meucci won't draw the ball any more than any other cue. Factors such as the tip or even the balance point may have made your stroke more effective but it wasn't the cue itself making more spin.Not spin but draw.
The Meucci would draw the ball with much less effort then the Schon resulting in a much more accurate shot with less effort.
well it did.Draw IS spin. A Meucci won't draw the ball any more than any other cue. Factors such as the tip or even the balance point may have made your stroke more effective but it wasn't the cue itself making more spin.
As I recall it was 100% of the players who could not tell what joint was in what cue, as in nobody demonstrated any statistically significant massive success with being able to tell which joints were on which cues. It was 70% of the individual guesses that were wrong which is a different thing. All told the player's in the experiment didn't really do much better than the success rate that would have come from not even hitting with any of the cues and instead just throwing out random guesses.My point is the joint does NOT determine how a cue hits/feels to any important degree. That test i mentioned had over 50 players test 16 cues each. That's 800+ test hits and over 70% could NOT tell what joint was in what cue. Most couldn't even identify their own cue.
Whats your point?As I recall it was 100% of the players who could not tell what joint was in what cue, as in nobody demonstrated any statistically significant massive success with being able to tell which joints were on which cues. It was 70% of the individual guesses that were wrong which is a different thing. All told the player's in the experiment didn't really do much better than the success rate that would have come from not even hitting with any of the cues and instead just throwing out random guesses.
Exactly what I said. It was not 70% of the players that could not tell what joint was on what cue as the poster I responded to had said, but rather it was essentially 100% of the players that did not have any statistically significant success being able to pick out which joints were on which cues. The 70% was the amount of the individual guesses that were incorrect, a very different thing.Whats your point?