best shaft for ball pocketing/accuracy?
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“Forgiveness” is more about curvature than diameter.…the larger diameter the tip the more forgiving it will be.
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“Forgiveness” is more about curvature than diameter.…the larger diameter the tip the more forgiving it will be.
much thinner than pool players, Gary mentions his snooker tip is 9mm in that video. But they are also hitting smaller balls so not sure it transfers, he uses an 11 mm tip for pool. He also mentions needing a longer cue for pool than snooker as you need more power. So not convinced you can say just copy snooker players for a different sport when even snooker players change their equipment for pool.Well, yes, but what diameter of tip?
I'm still here. Been a long time. I'm much more mature now.The advanced search function has dates so you can find early threads. Here's one of the first of the new forums. AZB seems to have started in the 1990s, but the posts before March 22, 2003 were lost in the transition to the current site.
And if you click on someone's avatar, and get to their profile, you will see their member number in the URL. I'm 1686.
Earl Strickland is member 156, as noted above.
Frequent poster @Matt_24 is member 91
Not many from those days made it into the 2020s.
I think I saw another pic and I think it is the one with the pin in the shaft like this one.How do you know what pin it is?
What's the best dog then?no such thing. find one YOU like. no offense brother but this is almost as bad as asking 'what's the best tip?'. you're just gonna have to hit a few. hate to say this again but the indian is WAAAAAAY more important than the arrow.
I can dig that styleWell, a lot of styling was wild in the 70's including cues.
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Schon are definitely production cues, though they will fill custom orders. I really don't want to get into it over what is custom vs what is not or what is production. Personally, I am not into Schon, do not own one, and I have over 200 cues. The one you posted is particularly ugly with those hideous metal rings in the butt sleeve and the A joint. Those rounded CNC points are hideous. I can't recall that I have any cues with such points. Seriously, with over 200 cues I don't know that I have any with ugly rounded points like that. I have cues made in Taiwan with beautiful sharp pints, perfectly even, even some full splice. Really refined and beautiful next to that ugly garbage. You can, and many do, make sharp points with CNC.
The kind of features you talk about that you don't like can be found on cues made by great respected "biggest name" legendary "custom" makers, as well as various well respected more common makers, and "mass producers". It was the style of the times, like orange or green shag carpeting.
But the styles and design types you are talking about were definitely made, and were definitely available from Adam.
Do you actually want to see them? You will find things like full splice with veneers, real ebony, real wood dashed rings, and other such features you might not like.
No such thing as a point and shoot shaft. It's 99% technique, and knowledge.what do you all recommend as the best point and shoot shaft?
no concern around deflection, hit or anything else, wood or carbon doesn't matter to me