No disagreement there. I think the OP question is what is straight? And then the next question is how to measure it? .015 is close to the
thickness of a playing card so the typical test of rolling a butt on a pool table might not pick it up.
When is a Cue Considered Warped?
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No disagreement there. I think the OP question is what is straight? And then the next question is how to measure it? .015 is close to the
thickness of a playing card so the typical test of rolling a butt on a pool table might not pick it up.
Well, technically a Searing is not straight.
Grab a straight edge and place it along the butt.
No section is a linear angle.
Fwiw
Butt was turned between pin and butt centers and measured just in front of the leather wrap joint.
Rolling the cue on a table may not pick it up unless you put a light behind it and it is about thickness of a playing card. Should I be concerned about the thickness of a playing card when paying 3k for a cue?
I don't know the resale market to know if that impacts resale. I think that answer would dictate my decision.
Lol
Coos Cues
Coos Cues
There are straight sections they are just very short.
DeeDeeCues
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Don't give up your day job.
You'd be busy with that straight edge to find them.
.015 is fifteen hundreds of an inch. You need .0015 to get 15 Thousands of an inch. I’ll continue to use the latter for measuring thousands of an inch. You’re welcome.
DeeDeeCues
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No, it isn't. I don't know what your presumed expertise is, but I hope you aren't designing or machining things.
DeeDeeCues
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1.000 is one.
0.100 is one tenth.
0.010 is one one-hundredth
0.001 is one one-thousandth.
Ergo 15*0.001=0.015= fifteen thousandths.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I prefer standard for carpentry, but metric for small measurements, I personally find it easier to understand. An average human hair is 40 micrometers (0.040mm). A tenth of that is 4 micrometers (0.004mm).
"The detection threshold of static indentation stimuli on the palm of the hand is approximately 10 to 40 micrometers, dependent on the exact location under investigation."
So you can feel between a human hair and a quarter of a human hair on the palm (0.010-0.040mm).
The old heads at my work talk in thousandths and my eyes glaze over. How many micrometers is that?
1/1000=.001
.001x15=.015
.001x15=.015
We use hundredth or thousandth or tenths .
If you are going to say a THOUSANDTH of an inch, you are talking 3 decimals to the right.
.001
One of my favorite things about learning how to make pool cues is it required me to learn a lot about metrology. It's not something I had to deal with much in electrical engineering because common lab equipment was always capable of accurately measuring the metrics I cared about (especially in digital systems).
But when you start sticking pins in wood sticks, it gets complicated fast!
But when you start sticking pins in wood sticks, it gets complicated fast!
and you'll continue to be wrong,,,,,,,, even though it was explained very simply to you.
I have customers who bring me cues of all different values from different makers and I am always leery of putting a dial on them to tell them the run out. It plants a seed in their head about something that really has no bearing on how the cue hits. But people want to know....and once they find out their expensive cue isn't absolutely perfect it DOES effect their game. I am pleasantly surprised sometimes and a 25 year old production cue runs almost perfect. I think overall the bar has been raised and most higher end cues tend to be closer to perfect at least going out the door. 5 years down the road its hard to predict, lots of variables.