Cue speed is more important than weight. That's why MLB players don't swing 35oz bats anymore.
Control is another thing entirely, but if you're looking for maximum cue ball velocity you want the intersection of where the cue weight crosses your maximum hand speed.
The sequence begins at 2:01:00 in this video, with a scratch on the 3 ball: Login to view embedded media
After Wu's safe on the 4, Felix intentionally fouls the 5 to freeze it on the 10. Felix on 2.
Wu can't make the 4 usefully, and shoots it down-table leaving the cue ball stuck behind the 9.
Felix fails to hit the 4, on three fouls now (?!?).
Wu pockets the 4, gets position on the 5 to shoot it up-table, leaving the cue ball frozen to the back of the 10.
As Wu approaches his seat, he seems to warn Felix that he is on two. The railbirds pipe up, saying WTF, or the equivalent in Chinese, and Wu says something to Felix and the ref gets involved. Felix hits the ball but Wu wins the rack. The commentators say WTF to each other after realizing what happened. They had a scorekeeper counting the three fouls.
The ref said something to Wu after the rack, but it's not clear what. The ref clearly missed giving the warning twice. Wu also missed the warning after Felix's intentional foul on the 5. But....
It may be that even though this was the final, and there was a time keeper, the referee was still acting in "area referee" mode and was supposed to approach the table only when called over. I saw Felix call her over a couple of times from her position off-camera. Other than that, she only appeared around the table to rack. Assuming she was an area referee:
Wu failed to notify Felix that he was on two fouls for the intentional on the 5 as Felix came to the table, shooting from the back of the nine. When Felix failed to hit the 4 from there, he was again on two fouls, as he had not been warned.
The railbirds shouldn't have started chirping, but they did no real harm.
It is not part of the job of an area referee to keep track of the foul count.
Fortunately, the whole sequence had no apparent effect on the outcome of the match.
My cue repair guy just put a leather wrap that I supplied on my cue.
He had to remove the linen and replace with leather for a very reasonable $50.
My question is he said it takes him 4 hours to do the job, is this about right?
You should ask the mods to move this to the Ask the cuemaker section. You're going to have experienced cuemakers there. Asking us railbirds is probably not the best option.
I just received my new Mid-American pool cue lathe. I set it up and was cutting the tip off of an old house cue to practice. Two issues. First the cutting tool is wanting to back off a little from the tip unless I hold the wheel that moves it forwards and backwards. Second it is leaving a small tit in the center of the tip instead of cutting clean. I watched a bunch of videos before receiving this and I seem to remember one of them mentioning something about this tit but I can't find it now.
You should ask the mods to move this to the Ask the cuemaker section. You're going to have experienced cuemakers there. Asking us railbirds is probably not the best option.
