List of all cue pin types?

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FeelDaShot

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It would be nice to have a table or list showing all of the various cue pin types/combinations with pictures included.

Does something like this already exist?

How many different pin types are there?
 
Try asking in :Ask the Cuemaker" forum....

https://forums.azbilliards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22


Over the years, the so-called main pins would be:

5/16-14 (piloted and flat)
5/16-18 (mainly flat faced)
3/8-10
3/8-10 modified
3/8-11
Radial
Quick release Radial
Wavy
Lambros 3/8-10 piloted

and probably at least 10 others that may have had some success, but eventually fell by the wayside.

And probably a few I forgot about...lol
 
There`s a thread on this topic in the cuemakers section.
Seyberts also has page about this topic https://www.seyberts.com/pins
Lots of pins missing from that chart, and some pins like 3/8-10 comes in many variants. .281" minor up to .308" minor and even ACME variants.
 
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I ask on facebook.
A few oddities
3/8 by 11
3/8 by 12
7/16 by 12
7/16 by 14
The wood pin is 1/2 by 8

And while we are on the subject, the mezz wavy pin. Customer wanted to buy shaft to fit the wavy, and I did not have the tap. I checked to see what one cost. $385.
Just for comparison a 3/8 by 10 is less than $25
 
I don't even know if you can name them all.
Lord, there have been dozens and dozens .
Dufferin had their own umbrella looking screw. Porper had it too.
Cuetec has a 9MM screw.
So many bastardized 3/8 . Some don't even measure 3/8 really.
.350 to .360. Thread counts from 8 to 14. Some 16's from Asia.


There's even double screw joint. Had to be the ugliest one ever.
 
JoeyInCali said:
I don't even know if you can name them all.
Lord, there have been dozens and dozens .
Dufferin had their own umbrella looking screw. Porper had it too.
Cuetec has a 9MM screw.
So many bastardized 3/8 . Some don't even measure 3/8 really.
.350 to .360. Thread counts from 8 to 14. Some 16's from Asia.


There's even double screw joint. Had to be the ugliest one ever.
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2 doubles that come to mind.
Vikings super joint and Helmsetter.
There's a list in the cue maker section somewhere. I don't think we really ran out of sizes.
 
cuesblues said:
My 80's Budweiser cue looks to be a 45/128-10...or so
Very custom
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My 1971 Sears cue has the joint in backward, with the pin on the shaft not the butt. For $15, what could I expect? It was a Christmas gift.

If you ever saw the movie, Kiss Shot, with Dennis Franz, he used such a joint as a fake gun he pointed at the bad guy to get out of trouble.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVsqhV_XNo8 (It doesn't show the joint)



Jeff Livingston
 
+1 that weird Cognoscenti pin... fiberglass?

Some older cues have a huge wooden pin.. strange.

Some Schmelke cues have that old budget Brunswick joint pin.

And Pechauer's early cues have a 5/16-14, but you couldn't put
say, a Schon 5/16-14 shaft on them.. it was slightly off.

Here's Seyberts' chart:

https://www.seyberts.com/pins
 
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Runner said:
+1 that weird Cognoscenti pin... fiberglass?

Some older cues have a huge wooden pin.. strange.

Some Schmelke cues have that old budget Brunswick joint pin.

And Pechauer's early cues have a 5/16-14, but you couldn't put
say, a Schon 5/16-14 shaft on them.. it was slightly off.

Here's Seyberts' chart:

https://www.seyberts.com/pins
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7/16 10 G-10 iirc
 
chefjeff said:
My 1971 Sears cue has the joint in backward, with the pin on the shaft not the butt. For $15, what could I expect? It was a Christmas gift.

If you ever saw the movie, Kiss Shot, with Dennis Franz, he used such a joint as a fake gun he pointed at the bad guy to get out of trouble.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVsqhV_XNo8 (It doesn't show the joint)



Jeff Livingston
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My Bud cue joint is in reverse as well.
I had to measue the pin diameter in thousandth's, then back in a fraction, rather than convert to millimeters.
I think it's actually 10 mm.
 
In the late 70’s Viking cue offered a few different joint styles, one was kind of complicated with a double thread. In order to get a new shaft you needed to send in the butt back to Gordon, it would take a month.

Ray Schuler fixed all that with his joint which was universal and made out of some type of aircraft metal.
 
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Seyberts has quite a long list of joint screws and types on their website
 
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