Have you ever attempted to play with a very warped pool cue, and did it bother you, and were you able to pot balls with it consistently?

My High run was done with a warped Butt with a warped Shaft, due to having a long stroke once I started to notice the tip/ferrule turn as I was striking the cue ball I decided to destroy the Cue. I never roll my cue with mid cue extension on the table because I know what it would look like and it would bother my mental game. But to answer you yes you can run many balls with it
 
vintagecollectibles831 said:
Thanks a lot for the info. So, if I do not mark the joint of the shaft at the highest point of its roll out, and shoot with that side facing up, then I might miss, no matter what. That makes sense. I will test both ways, just out of curiosity. Maybe do some straight in, long shot drills, to see how bad the warp really throws me off. I really just miss playing, lol. Thanks for your help.
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It seems like a big deal but it really isn't in play as long as you don't turn the cue between addressing the cue ball and shooting the cue is going to return to very close to the same place on the cue ball, too close to affect the shot in almost all cases. How far back do you address the cue ball from?(tip to cue ball) Exactly how warped is your cue in that distance? Cut a piece of wood or pasteboard with a flat side the length of your index. The warp for that distance will probably have to be measured in thousandths of an inch. Do you think those thousandths of an inch affect your shot? There might not be any warp in the usual area you bridge in.

I experimented with turning the cue depending on the spin I was putting on the cue ball. None of this matters much, just interesting tinkering if you like to dabble.

For awhile I wanted a dead straight shaft. Then my favorite shaft started warping very slightly in summer and returning to straight every winter. For awhile I checked how straight it was before every session. Then I forgot about it and found the shaft played just fine, summer and winter!

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Keyword is badly. So how warped was the cue that I played? It was to a point that it can't even roll. Was I able to play with it? Yes, was I able to pocket ball, yes. Did it affect some of my shots? Definitely. Not sure why someone would go for a "badly warped cue if there were others that are available for use. Now let's have another question, have you played with no tips? Broken ferrule? Did you pocket balls? Did it affect your shot?
 
vintagecollectibles831 said:
Please do not laugh at me for asking this, but have you ever attempted to play with a very warped pool cue, and did it bother you, and were you able to pot balls with it consistently?

I have had this cue (which I received in the mail, from overseas) for a few weeks. The good news was that the butt is perfectly straight. The bad news was that the shaft is warped. No issue with the butt or the joint pin, but the shaft wobbled really bad when rolled together with the shaft. So, I have not even wanted to attempt to shoot with the thing. Been too broke to buy a good quality shaft for it, which is what I would really want.

The surprising thing is, that the shaft does not really look too bad when it is rolled by itself. The tip remains flat on the table when rolled by itself, but you can clearly feel the wobble when rolling it slowly. It will not just sit in place, when leaving it in certain positions, lol, it will wobble over to one side, lol.

And, when rolled together with the perfectly straight butt, it shows a very bad wobble, with the tip completely leaving the table.

My question is, have you ever successfully been able to play with something like what I am describing? Leaving the mental aspect of knowing that you are playing with a warped pool cue, should something like this physically be impossible to shoot straight with?

I just really want to play, but I just figure that I need a straight shaft in order to shoot straight, lol.

Thanks for any thoughts about this.
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Back in the old days, if you went someplace with a pool cue everybody labeled you as hustler.I would use a house cue. House cues are often wrapped but if you spin them where the low point is downward then it appears straight. Never had problem using house cues. Dufferin was my favorite.
 
Yrs ago i straight-up robbed this dude playin $20 8ball in this funky lil beer joint. The cue was warped pretty bad but the tip was GEORGE, i mean perfect. I held the cue in the same spot every shot to minimize the bend and brother i caught a WORLD CLASS beer gear. Ran out from everywhere with that thing. Was smoking gradeA+ skunk weed so i probably didn't realize how bad the cue was. Good times................
 
first off line up on the center and then spin slowly and see how much the tip moves. if little then dont worry.

wood shafts are easy to straighten out. check manwon's post on it. his way is good.

and just running your hand with it angled on the table for a bit will get it straight for that day.
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
Keyword is badly. So how warped was the cue that I played? It was to a point that it can't even roll. Was I able to play with it? Yes, was I able to pocket ball, yes. Did it affect some of my shots? Definitely. Not sure why someone would go for a "badly warped cue if there were others that are available for use. Now let's have another question, have you played with no tips? Broken ferrule? Did you pocket balls? Did it affect your shot?
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The great Scotty Townsend bet a bar owner that he could beat him playing with a limb off a tree out in the parking lot. Scotty whittled on that tree limb for over a day then won over seventeen hundred dollars with it. That is the low end of what I heard, I didn't get the story straight from Scotty so hard to say. I did hear seventeen-fifty as the lowest number bet and that Scotty carved on the limb over a two day period. I did find a tree limb in a bar once, no idea if it was the same one.

I have played with all kinds of things, even tried a bar stool with a swivel seat. Never again. It was a big heavy bar stool and it almost took a finger off when it turned. We didn't have much control and it was obvious that we were going to start a war. The lady managing the biker bar said no more bar stools!I have played a handful of times with handles that unscrewed and entire mops and brooms.

I had made a nice small score in a bar one night when somebody challenged me to play with a house cue with no tip as the spot. It had a soft plastic ferrule that soon went away and then the stick started breaking chunks off. When it got down a little ways eight or ten inch splinters/chunks started breaking off and the owner shut down our activities when people around us went to bitching. I was breaking with that cue and all and it was about a foot shorter when I was made to stop using it as a safety issue. It was mostly breaking off an inch and a half or two inches at a time and these pieces were hitting people all around the table, even some distance away!

The worst thing I ever played with was an industrial mop. Like a lot of these stories it was in a biker bar. The wringer on the mop bucket had broken months before and the lady that had to clean up had just bought one of the little lightweight sponge mops to mop the floor. When the guy I was playing with found the mop it had been soaking in the filthy water for a few months. Vile doesn't begin to describe the smell. That mop and bucket qualified as a superfund site and there were some pretty large things swimming in that bucket. I'm pretty sure some of the things in that bucket were unknown life forms!

The very wet head on that mop was slinging the soup from the bucket everywhere and even the bikers were complaining about the smell. This mop had a huge handle, probably an inch and a half diameter or more. The head probably weighed fifteen pounds or more when we started. The bet was modest and my main goal was not to get any of that water on me, not even my boots! Unavoidable to walk in the mess slung on the floor and a little of the stuff got on my blue jeans.

I learned the trick was to get that mop head swinging and then time the hit with the swing of the mop head. The only other choice was to wait minutes while the swing got small and one stroke it.

All of the crazy things I played with were the other person's idea and usually we both played with the same or similar things. I always won more than I lost playing with all of the odd things so I was always game to give it a try. With the brooms and lightweight mops it was even possible to get a little spin on the cue ball. We tried chalk, it helped. then I cut a crosshatch into the end of a rounded mop handle and chalked that. With a little thought and a lot of chalk it was possible to put all kinds of draw and spin on the cue ball. Far behind a leather tip with chalk but better than I expected.
 
people dont realize what you can do with all sorts of semi straight things for a cue. and then bet on it and dont quit after you take a few shots and can see they have no hope.
 
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