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Ivory ferrules are genuinely the best you can have from appearance, weight, compression, acoustical sound and impervious to any stains like bluing from the cue owner misapplying chalk to the cue tip. The finest cues made down through the annals of cue making history had ivory ferrules. It wasn’t...

Absolutely right on everything you said except to the best of my knowledge, doesn’t every taper start at the ferrule and extend up the shaft? Interestingly, you picked up on deflection but that does not have to coincide with the OP query…….softest hitting cue. Only the cue maker can help with...

Basically all piloted steel joint Schon cues of alike weight and shaft size have a similar hit, i.e., firm. Bob was known for workmanship, i.e.,meticulous construction. I have a custom Schon he built in ‘84. p.s. My Scruggs is a radial pin and it plays like a cue you wished you could own and...

Any competent cue maker can build you a cue that meets your requirements but remember none are mind readers. Have you ever played with a cue that you felt was a soft hitting cue? If not, are you just looking for the Golden Fleece? Maybe you haven’t played with a sufficient number of different...

If you think about it, the seller would have one full carton of 32 boxes of chalk and one almost full with 30 boxes. I don’t think he’s so desperate for $11.00 he’d include free shipping, plus he’d no longer have 2 full cartons of MC.

My KW shafts are about finished and should ship next week. Just awaiting the cue tips my cue maker ordered to arrive and get installed. I’ll report back how the shafts turned out weight wise but I am expecting 4 oz. Kielwood shafts (under 13mm diameter) uncored and sans any weight added by the...

If you are talking about durability when asking about how a cue holds up, it depends on the pool cue’s anatomy that must be known before answering the question. However, if you are referring to resale value, you can customarily expect to take a loss.

I mainly play with Kamui Black Clear Soft on 80% of my cues so that’s likely why he does that. With his credentials, and having also played on the pro circuit in the 90’s, I trust his judgement that has resulted in zero complaints from me over the past couple of decades.

If you compress the tip before installing, trim the tip completely level and symmetrical with the ferrules, mine being ivory I previously mentioned require extra caution because of where I live, the tip does not mushroom quickly requiring trimming. I have two tips he installed that could be...

It always works best if you have a vice and can towel wrap your shaft so you can smooth the contour of the tip. Thank goodness I have a Master PBIA Instructor that’s my best friend. He pretty much maintains my cue tips & will replace my tips as needed. He does a fantastic job of installing my...

I have never experienced any change in the diameter of my cue shafts increasing from being exposed to humidity, especially in a pool room simply playing with my cues. Maybe if the pool room’s sprinkler system unexpectedly went in and I continued playing regardless of the increased humidity. You...

I have ivory ferrules on my custom cues and happen to reside in a state where ivory was banned for sale a decade ago. So if I damage a ferrule, it will be permanent since I cannot replace it with a new ivory ferrule. Trimming a mushroom tip is something I only entrust only to someone with a...

4.1-4.25 ozs….. 12.75 mm …..29”……. and the ring work on my cues is too fancy to duplicate because it would really drive up the cost.

I carry 6 cues in my case. I just started using a KW shaft last October. It happens to only fit one of my cues (radial pin). The other 5 cues are 2 different big pins. I just borrowed a KW shaft that will fit 3 of my other 5 cues. You can definitely tell the difference in the 3 cues using the...

I’ve expressed this view before so I’ll cut right to the chase. If you have a maple shaft you really like, then have a Kielwood shaft made, or find one, but make sure it has the very same specs as the shaft you like so much. Now that may be difficult based on my experience so far but I think I...

Whether you rack or I rack, it is done the same way. Additionally, templates make it easier and consistent. A one way lag does nothing to improve which player wins opening break or how it evens the playing field.

Because it is not a typical stroke you’d normally use in the game of pool to pocket a ball aside from day a safety shot. So why start using a stroke you might not have used, and may never use, except for that the lag start of a match? Oh, because players are having too great a challenge to send...

It is an ill conceived alternative……it is like pitching pennies so closest to foot rail wins……pool balls are meant to be hit into rails…..intended or accidental……a one way lag contest is just awful. How mandatory switching hands every other shot?

Outing this guy is always allowed if and when someone violates the Forum rues. I already do it publicly and also by PM to the Mods, as well as the offending party. The Mods only have so much time available and there is more to doing that job than looking for bad threads. And how often should...

I think you are right…..maybe overzealousness, poor computer connection that was slow so he tried several times or he could be a jerk. Regardless, he should ask the Mods to clean up his mess and he should have already done that by now.