dave st.pierre
dave st.pierre
I have no wrap on my madden.i watch pros play & 90% of the time there hand is behind the wrap,so i say wrap is for looks only.what your thoughts on wrap.
Why have wrap?
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dave st.pierre...The purpose of the wrap is normally to absorb sweat from the player's hand. Whether or not someone grips the cue on the wrap depends mostly on how tall they are, and how long a wingspan they have.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Wrapless
A cue with a wrap cannot breathe properly. Moisture is trapped under the wrap which causes warping. Almost all trees are outside where they can breathe. Cues are made from trees. Ever notice nobody wraps their shaft! Do the math! That's why some people don't play so well. If you need a wrap, you probably need a glove and may also need special pool shooting shoes. And some $25 chalk! We all like it when the ladies go topless. Let your cue go wrap less. Turn those puppies loose!
A cue with a wrap cannot breathe properly. Moisture is trapped under the wrap which causes warping. Almost all trees are outside where they can breathe. Cues are made from trees. Ever notice nobody wraps their shaft! Do the math! That's why some people don't play so well. If you need a wrap, you probably need a glove and may also need special pool shooting shoes. And some $25 chalk! We all like it when the ladies go topless. Let your cue go wrap less. Turn those puppies loose!
Mr. Wiggles...I agree with a lot of your posts, because of sound reasoning. I can't tell if you're serious here or not (no emoticons to tell me), but if so, this is the most absurd statement ever. If it were true then there would be literally milliions of warped cues.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
I beleive some of old school players used the slip stroke and a linen wrap was best. Doing a slip stroke or even holding the cue very loose and letting the cue slide forward in your hand (specially if sweaty) through the cb with a wrapless is difficult.
The wrap does serve a purpose for SOME strokes.
The wrap does serve a purpose for SOME strokes.
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We had an old boy in Arizona who was a SNOW BIRD, left his Cue in the Car, parked in the Arizona House, garage got to 122-130 DEGREES in the summer, so the inside of the CAR maybe hit 150. He cried my Cue Warped,
could not figure out why?
Hey Bruce, this thread is about WRAPs, not WARPs. :bash::killingme::rotflmao1::welcome::thud:
Dave
Wrap or no wrap is nothing but a preference, it doesn't matter to me either way.
JIMO
LMAO. Johnnyt
Whoa there Scotty!
Just having fun Scott. It's like sarcasm. Okay, I'll give you serious but you may not like it. Certainly wraps can help with moist hands. Other than that I suppose you could say they are cosmetic or esthetic or traditional. I think they give the cue maker an easy way to not deal with almost 2/3 of the butt! I know wrapping is an art but it's an art they takes very little time and effort. I will say that the wrapped part will wear like iron and show no nicks and boo boos. I also think wrap less gives the cue guy more room to perform their magic. My wrap less has 32 inlays and 8 veneer lines. 16 dots and the 8 veneers are in the wrap area! If one does choose to wrap, go dark, as light wraps get filthy. And of course Meucci and their sealed wraps!?!? What the heck!
Just having fun Scott. It's like sarcasm. Okay, I'll give you serious but you may not like it. Certainly wraps can help with moist hands. Other than that I suppose you could say they are cosmetic or esthetic or traditional. I think they give the cue maker an easy way to not deal with almost 2/3 of the butt! I know wrapping is an art but it's an art they takes very little time and effort. I will say that the wrapped part will wear like iron and show no nicks and boo boos. I also think wrap less gives the cue guy more room to perform their magic. My wrap less has 32 inlays and 8 veneer lines. 16 dots and the 8 veneers are in the wrap area! If one does choose to wrap, go dark, as light wraps get filthy. And of course Meucci and their sealed wraps!?!? What the heck!
I don't think this is your first time around the block
The slip stroke is indeed very difficult with a wrapless cue. The linen wrap slides a lot better. I notice that the old advocates of a level cue still had the butt cap 3-6 inches higher than the tip even when there was no need to raise the butt for clearance. They didn't really mean level the way we mean today. I found out that little bit of tilt helped a slip stroke a bunch too.
I'm like many, I don't like two different surfaces under my hand, my reason to favor wrapless. One of these days I'm going to make or have made a cue with a wrap from about 2-3 inches further forward than normal to about two inches from the bumper. If I make it myself I think I'll use a little bigger thread too, more like string.
Hu
The slip stroke is indeed very difficult with a wrapless cue. The linen wrap slides a lot better. I notice that the old advocates of a level cue still had the butt cap 3-6 inches higher than the tip even when there was no need to raise the butt for clearance. They didn't really mean level the way we mean today. I found out that little bit of tilt helped a slip stroke a bunch too.
I'm like many, I don't like two different surfaces under my hand, my reason to favor wrapless. One of these days I'm going to make or have made a cue with a wrap from about 2-3 inches further forward than normal to about two inches from the bumper. If I make it myself I think I'll use a little bigger thread too, more like string.
Hu
Sorry bud but you couldn't be more wrong. Just some food for thought.
If a wrapless cue had a handle that was finished with a clear coat, how then would the clear coat not trap moisture?
And if one could say that a linen wrap is pure aesthetics, then the same could be said about leather and stack wraps.
emoticons?
You lost me on the emoticons! I had to look that up. I will try to use one someday. Could you give me an example of an emoticon I could use when I am my sarcastic self! Like maybe ( the sky is falling ) as we know the sky does not fall! Enlighten me Scott! If I keep learning at this rate I will probably just become a BCA certified, authorized instructor! See, I needed one of those emoticons already!
You lost me on the emoticons! I had to look that up. I will try to use one someday. Could you give me an example of an emoticon I could use when I am my sarcastic self! Like maybe ( the sky is falling ) as we know the sky does not fall! Enlighten me Scott! If I keep learning at this rate I will probably just become a BCA certified, authorized instructor! See, I needed one of those emoticons already!
BINGO!!! Scott also is correct about the wrap absorbing the moisture from your hands. There is a good reason why cue makers have been wrapping cues all these years. And it's not just for looks. Give me a good old cue where the wrap (and the shaft too) has darkened from all the play over the years. I love the feel of a well broke in cue. :thumbup:
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There's one more reason for a wrap...and cue makers dont want you to know it. Some cue makers use a different/cheaper/ugly wood under the wrap to lower the cost of the cue. Save that precious beautiful wood for another cue. Sad but true. Those additional splices screw up the feel and hit of the cue too.