Tip size

Podunker said:
I played with a guy came from the straight pool heyday. Played with a Richard Black cue. 14 mm shafts late 80's early 90's. He played real good. Owned a pool hall that held 14.1 US open qualifiers in the 70's. Never hit the ball hard and still got around the table. He lightly sanded shafts. Had 4 of them. When his player shaft got down, he'd order another for the rotation. Shafts were like tree trunks to me. I used to ask him if I could have the old ones for my wood stove. I guess it's all in the beholder.
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Huge hands and height can affect what works best for you. I draw and spin just fine w my war clubs. 14mm.
Almost like one of those big ol house cues.
 
Kim Bye said:
Skinny shafts almost never work to your advantage. 10.5mm is generally way too small for pool. If you have played for a year, I doubt you have the stroke needed to take advantage of the smaller impact point. 12.5mm ish seems to be the size that works best for just about everyone.
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Ed Keeney said:
Does anyone play reg pool with a 10.5 mm shaft?
I started a year ago and I’ll never go back to bigger mm.
I use a Kamui H/C/B
Ed-
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I have always found more spin with snooker size tips but;findibg the center of the cue ball more difficult.
 
Moe Szyslak said:
If it's the flat spot that's working the magic, why couldn't you just put a flat spot on any size tip? If the size of the flat spot is the business, why not use a cue that's the size of the cueball itself and sand the end completely flat and use that? Then you're guaranteed to hit center ball every time. I guess?
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Apologies... you quoted me but didn't include my tag within so I wasn't given a notification.

I guess the obvious answer is that you could put a larger flat spot on a large tip, and that's exactly why I noted that there could be an advantage to a larger tip, if that was your approach. That said, there's no magic. Just some breathing room to miss-hit CB center and manifest a straight shot without squirt.

...and yes if you wanted to play with a ridiculously sized tip for sake of a massive flat spot to insure a center ball hit. That would work. A barn door would work as well
 
The_JV said:
Apologies... you quoted me but didn't include my tag within so I wasn't given a notification.

I guess the obvious answer is that you could put a larger flat spot on a large tip, and that's exactly why I noted that there could be an advantage to a larger tip, if that was your approach. That said, there's no magic. Just some breathing room to miss-hit CB center and manifest a straight shot without squirt.

...and yes if you wanted to play with a ridiculously sized tip for sake of a massive flat spot to insure a center ball hit. That would work. A barn door would work as well
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…unless you want an off center hit.

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years ago I had a league teammate from England who used his snooker cue to play American 8 ball. Could really spin the cue ball and played great position. he was the best player on our team.
 
I agree when met Earl Strickland he was still playing with his Mike Gulyassy custom cue with either a 14 or 15 mm shaft , I was tempted to ask him if I could take a shot or two with it but it was late in the day and he appeared to be tired so I didn't ask .

I do however miss my cue with the 13.50 mm shafts , the english i could get with it was impressive to say the least .
A close friend played with a sneaky Pete cue that had I believe 12 mm or smaller tips and I could get the same results with my cue as he did with his , go figure ha ha
 
The Old Jaybird said:
years ago I had a league teammate from England who used his snooker cue to play American 8 ball. Could really spin the cue ball and played great position. he was the best player on our team.
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As a former snooker player and someone that's still fairly decent at applying heavy amount of english in the game of pool. I can say that this ability is 90% stroke, and not the result of tip size. Snooker players simply on average have considerably better mechanics then pure pool players. I'll also argue that they have a greater ability to land the tip on the CB with greater accuracy/consistency. Thus allowing them to play near the miscue limit with greater success. The only thing holding snooker players back from spinning the cue ball excessively is that traditional snooker is played more similarly to straight pool then regular pool when moving the CB around.

The only time tip size would begin to become a factor in developing english on the CB, is when it became so large it would interfere with the table bed before its edge reached the miscue limit.
 
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