Sign me up!!Need a 'Cue Club 4 Men', sort of a co-op like that company that sends you razors every month. Pay so much a yr and you get new cue every month, after 30days you send it back and re-load.
New Cue Syndrome -- Real or Imagined
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Rusty in Montana
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I go into a form of mental overload as it is now just looking at the cues in the for sale site , who knows what kind of trouble I could have if I were to attend a event like the DCC ha ha
I have been posting on this Forum for the past decade the importance of shaft weight and the sweet spot range
cue makers strive for to yield the best overall results. Lou’s post underscores the significance of the weight ratio.
don't know why this got the laugh emoji. it's the truth, for many players a new cue will make you more concentrated. even if the cue itself is placebo, the effect is real.
when they did the new putter test all those involved said they just more 'into it' as in higher levels of awareness, confidence, focus, you name it. the effect generally doesn't last all that long. the majority will return to their normal level of performance pretty quik.
Lou
I believe NCS is a real thing. I seem to play better when I first get a new cue . I willo be happy to prove your theory ,just send me your cue when thr NCS wears off . I will let you know if the magic works for me . Of course I will return it when my thorough testing is complete .
Chuck
I believe NCS is a real thing. I seem to play better when I first get a new cue . I willo be happy to prove your theory ,just send me your cue when thr NCS wears off . I will let you know if the magic works for me . Of course I will return it when my thorough testing is complete .
Chuck
Weight distribution and balance point are imo the most important part of a cue, other than the tip, weight and diameters……
My Common Sense goes out the window when I see a bunch of customs for sale. I need a keeper when I get around cue exhibitions.
Traveling and didn’t bring a cue. So today and yesterday I played some. Found a slightly better cue off the wall today. I am not the best but I’m not the most picky as to equipment either. I have a bunch of cues and all of them are better than the house cues. Even with the full splice of the walkabushka LOL. It makes a difference and is more pleasant. Can you play with a house cues? Yeah. Why would you want to? Penance?
I'll play with a "stiffer" cue for a while and they go back to my long straight taper cue and can move the cueball much better.
Showman or Searing for a while and then back to Mobley built for Earl(straight taper to with 4 or 5 inches from joint) or my Ted Harris that I had him make the straight taper much longer
Showman or Searing for a while and then back to Mobley built for Earl(straight taper to with 4 or 5 inches from joint) or my Ted Harris that I had him make the straight taper much longer
i have a folded 1500 grit sandpaper and ditto 80 grit in my wallet at all times, along with an unglove. never know when you stroll past a pool room / pool table and even gunky wallabushkas with glanced tips can be made playable / enjoyable
I used to carry 400 wet-or-dry in my wallet, but it was more like 600 after a few uses/washes. Many years ago at pro tournaments, if you had a packet of 600, you were everybody's friend. That was before shafts cost $500, or $200 for cheap ones. And before gloves.
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You just described a genuine hustler warmup act: sanding the wallabushka shaft with your own sandpaper and pulling a miracle glove out of your wallet. Definitely a player not to bet against! Still I have to ask, does it work?
dark rainy night 1970's some bar up on cape cod stopped in and a line of players betting 20 plus or whatever a game. just put up your quarter and bet. all played poorly. only problem there was no chalk at all in the place and no one used any or was allowed i guess, so i didn't try to go to the car..
but did go out front and rub the tip on the sidewalk till it was fuzzy. then i never miscued and could stop the cue ball as needed. had to go out many times but what works, works.
i did not want to get caught rubbing dirt on it or something that changed the color.
sand paper with me after that.
but did go out front and rub the tip on the sidewalk till it was fuzzy. then i never miscued and could stop the cue ball as needed. had to go out many times but what works, works.
i did not want to get caught rubbing dirt on it or something that changed the color.
sand paper with me after that.
I think a new cue "can" play a lot better... Butfor the most part, a player playing with a new cue tends to be not as confident moving to the extreme edges of the cue ball, and as such, tends to play closer to center ball, which pretty much makes ANYONE play better. When the honeymoon period is over, the player might tend to start using more English because that simply how they always played, and their game falls back to the previous level.
One thing I personally know is... I thought Revo was the shiznitt for a year or so... Then noted my game had been falling off steadily for the past year or two. I damaged the tip on that shift, and switched to my Predator 314-2 shaft.. Game took an IMMEDIATE up turn... To the point where my straight pool runs doubled in league.
I was very much aware of the tendency to come back to center ball, and paid attention to this, and there was not much difference in where I was hitting the CB.. What I eventually figured out was that the Revo was simply deflecting a ton more with any offcenter hit.
You just described a genuine hustler warmup act: sanding the wallabushka shaft with your own sandpaper and pulling a miracle glove out of your wallet. Definitely a player not to bet against! Still I have to ask, does it work?
did i mention that the unglove is skin colored and kinda looks like a band-aid..
A new cue has a new weight and balance that you are not used to, so it has a different feel. That different feel forces you to focus a little more, until it's no longer "new", then old habits creep back in. Like everyone I got the itch for a new cue and instantly loved it. After a while I came to the realization that I had a slightly higher percentage of miscues because the balance point was much farther away from the tip. I switched back to my old cue and literally fell in love with it all over again. I've decided to stick with it until we are both too old to play.