Break cues?
- Thread starter TrxR
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Why are you buying one?
Neither will help timing.
They look about the same.
One is $150 more.
So...cutec I suppose
Neither will help timing.
They look about the same.
One is $150 more.
So...cutec I suppose
Ghost of OBC
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I have a Schmelke Albino on order. Pretty stoked about an American-made breaker. $110.
I play with a BK Rush and like it, but honestly I don’t know that it makes that much difference one from the other…
I've hit many times with a bk rush,
Haven't been able to try a breach but I can't do near the kind of breaking with the predator as I can with my players pure x
Haven't been able to try a breach but I can't do near the kind of breaking with the predator as I can with my players pure x
Jacoby
I don't like break cues with rubber grips and large logos. I have a Lucasi BEM J/B with a linen wrap.
Nyquil
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Haven't played with either. Carbon does make sense with a break cue due to the efficiency of energy transfer. I break with a Viking crush I picked up used for cheap. Some thick ass maple for sure, lol. If you are going to splurge and can't try before you buy I would purchase from a website like pool dawg that you can return it if you don't dig it. I would advise against anything that has a "sport wrap" pain to get out of cases and it's not a damn golf club. The one other thing I don't like with predator on break cues is the uniloc q/r joint. They should offer in a big pin like uniloc radial. Just my 02. Good luck on the hunt.
If someone else was buying one for me, I'd get the Predator, my son had one for a while and I really liked it. If it was my money, I'd get a Players, McDermott or PureX one for half or less the cost. I own a PureX break/jump cue I got used for $160, turned down the shaft a bit, had two break and runs last night in 3 games, so must work as good as the $600-700 cues
95% of the break is in the breaker skill and the rack setup, IMHO spending anything more than what a basic cue would cost on a break cue is just wasted money. Tip is very important to a break cue, wrong tip will make even a pricy cue feel like crap.
I use one of those $80 cues that come with my table. Just put an XXH tip on it and you will be fine.
If you don't have a chance to try either one before hand, they are both nice. Choice might come down to the color. You like blue or red?
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If it's a raffle, what difference does it make which one you win? Try for both.
Flowers cue with the CF shaft is about the best. Looks just like a Predator but with carbon shaft. I have to have a CF shaft. SO used to the smooth transition (never sanding).
That would be OK for breaking with a hard tip, but it's not a low deflection shaft so not really a good choice for a playing shaft unless someone plays with a standard maple shaft. I did a test on a few of those and at table length with spin the JFlowers and the Konlin shafts miss the ball I am aiming at fully, like a house cue or a standard shaft. The Revo on the opposite spectrum hits is almost full on, so the difference in aiming is at least 2" over a 7 foot long shot.
891014+1
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The Cuetec have something special on it, cue ball control is much more effective with it. Maybe because of the tip? I don't know, but for me is impossible to control the cue ball, sending all the power to the break without the Cuetec breach cue.
I tried predator, mezz, even the "forbiden 28 oz" from pooldawg... Cuetec all day.
I tried predator, mezz, even the "forbiden 28 oz" from pooldawg... Cuetec all day.
If you've proved the Flowers break cue shaft is NOT a low deflection shaft, which break cue would you recommend with a LD C/F shaft?