Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
I finally got me a caliper, and, of course, I am about to measure the hell out my cues. I got to thinking that there might be standard places to measure. Any ideas or suggestions?
Relevant Cue Dimensions
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Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Somewhere, I read about minimum butt dimensions required for conversions. Also, it would seem that the shaft dimensions would reveal the nature of the taper. I also ran into butt measurements expressed as XYZ mm ___ inches above end or below joint.
I'm in the flooring business and a lot of products are metric and a lot are Imperial because some are made in the U.S and some in other countries so I have to do a lot of math to make different products line up correctly.
For instance I have to know that a 12MM thick product takes a 1/2 inch trim piece and on and on.
The U.S. never converted to the metric system for whatever reason.
Isn't millimeters easier then fractions of an inch?
13 MM-12MM-11MM versus trying to figure 3/8-3/16-1/4-5/8 and so on.
It's easy enough when you deal with them both on a regular basis
We use inches where we can because Americans use the Imperial system. Maybe we use mm for tips because metric measures are better suited to small things with small differences (1/4 mm = 1/100 inch).
pj
chgo
Metric system is far superior
cue butts also tend to be in inches .....1.25
dirtvictim
Ignore the entitled they haven't earned respect
So you don't like big butts?
Generally I measure every two inches to get a pretty good idea of dimensions and tapers. Some areas I might measure every half inch, that mostly on the shaft.
As for measurement units, we are Americans, we drive on the right side of the road and use the right units of measure. I remember when the government tried to force us into using the metric system, it didn't work! As a draftsman and designer I worked with whatever units required. Metric was just another scale. No advantage to it, why it never caught on here. Supposedly since we have ten fingers and ten toes base ten should be the natural for everything. Most of us have gotten past counting our fingers and toes but if that is the decider shouldn't real men use base 21?
Hu
As for measurement units, we are Americans, we drive on the right side of the road and use the right units of measure. I remember when the government tried to force us into using the metric system, it didn't work! As a draftsman and designer I worked with whatever units required. Metric was just another scale. No advantage to it, why it never caught on here. Supposedly since we have ten fingers and ten toes base ten should be the natural for everything. Most of us have gotten past counting our fingers and toes but if that is the decider shouldn't real men use base 21?
Hu
Really. I prefer 1.26-27. I’ve got a Titlist I’m working on that turned thinner than expected. I figured I’d have a tough time selling it.I like 1.21
Maybe there’s a market I didn’t know about for the thinner stuff.
I prefer 1.28 - 1.30 inches (32.5 - 33 mm). I guess I got used to playing with house cues.
All of Becue's butts are 1.22 inches. Apparently, they wanted to one up Predator, who I think consider 1.24 inches to be fat.
How do you keep from scratching the cue?