Your options are limitless, so many to chose from, juma, strong but soft hit, masons micarta has very unique hit, but is softer than linen micarta. All the others like malamine, ivorine have very hard crisp hit.
Tomahawk is very light wight but super strong,very crisp hit.
The original ones your looking for, is the cotton fiber stuff. McDermott had them too in the 80s.
Good luck

I bought these on two separate occasions. Perfect both times. No worries here.

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He looks focused and in better shape physically

it does appear they are doing re draws to which he has not faced any top chinese, not sure if current opponent Dai Yong is considered a top tier player

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comms said before that phone myint kyaw was an expected semifinalist, but dennis beat him.

down 10-13 now

While the thread is focused on rotation games, there is no game that would benefit more from larger pockets than bank pool. Top players may have potting percentages under 50%, and B&R's are rare. It is a great game, but difficult to watch, even when the world's best are playing.

ABS or PVC (very similar to Meucci's ferrule material) or Juma would probably be the closest things you could find that are commonly used today. ABS and PVC are, by ferrule material standards, very soft with Juma being slightly harder. A capped ABS/PVC ferrule with a padded tip will hit very softly compared to most modern cue setups. The pad can also help with keeping the ferrule from squishing because it help spread the impact over the face of the ferrule.

If that doesn't get you where you want to be, I'd just start looking at plastic supplier's sites for softer plastics. I worked in a plastics fabrication shop in college and we had some stuff called Komatex. It's pretty darn soft. I don't know if it's available in rods, but you could get a sheet, cut out a small square, and have that bored and turned round.

And, yes. I know ABS and PVC aren't the same thing. But for a ferrule, they might as well be.