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Thanks for the links. I hadn’t realized there was so much out there—good for hours of data collection and analysis. The ones you mentioned, plus one other for a super hard tip pretty much confirmed my engineering suspicion that the softer tips deform on impact and have longer contact time...

So here is a question for the crowd: Does anyone have or know of super high speed photography of tip impacts with a cue ball that might show if the softer tips compress more and as such might have slightly longer contact time with the ball? I appreciate that softer tips hold chalk better (I’ve...

What you are saying is very true about maple shafts, but too many people read too much into the mass reduction. The reason that is done for wood construction is that removing mass from the centerline of the cue is the only variable they can easily adjust without changing the stiffness or...

Gordml asks a fair question about how the characteristics of the cue change over time. I know from experience in the high and dry area of Colorado where I live that wood will continue to dry and often wood joints fail over time, depending on how they were originally manufactured. If we are...

Garczar is correct. The companies make a big deal about using their weight bolts, but in the case of Pechauer, Joss, Viking, McDermott and some others, they are using this NC standard size where you can buy bolts by the bag for a fraction of what they charge and do just fine. If you get two...

True, in the overall scheme of things. For me there is the annoyance factor as well. I can get an assortment of 1/2 inch set screws at the local hardware store for a few bucks. The nearest cue repair guy is almost 60 miles away in another state, the nearest billiards store is over three...

I was trying to reduce and adjust the weight on my McDermott cue, and was not happy with their approach to weighting, which requires you buy a lighter bolt (or cut down the one you have) in order to reduce the weight. For starts, they cost 9 bucks each at Pooldawg, and cutting the McDermott...

I found that a little piece of air hose, split with a razor blade, did a beautiful job of protecting the bumper. Pulled it right out with a pair of channel locks. I also have a post about how to modify the threaded bore so you can use stackable weights and more easily fine tune the McDermott...

Agree pretty much across the board with you except for bioengineered wood. Much easier and cheaper to engineer the materials to give them other desirable characteristics that we may never see in wood. That's been the story in all other sports. Skis have honeycomb graphite structures to reduce...

I’ll put myself into the “do whatever works for you” category, line up my shot and watch the cue ball. It might be over half a century of playing tennis where I’ve lost count of the number of shots I missed when I was watching where I wanted the ball to go instead of where it was when I hit it...

Not sure where you are getting your racquet grips. I repair these and install dozens of grips and overgrips for club, schools and friends during a year. I've never see any tube grips. The closest that I use is some heat shrink tubing that is good for making the grip a size larger. Then you...

And to make my point about cost, I’ll trade two of our tennis racquets for one name brand cf shaft, three if you include a good cue butt. The relatively high price for cf shafts will continue to come down, and with the potential to match or exceed the quality of wooden products, I expect within...

True, but my point was that is why they aren’t used in the major leagues, whereas tennis, golf, hockey and skiing will never see wooden equipment again at the high end. Imagine the scandal you would see about juicing those bats, and how hard it would be to detect without actually testing the bat.

Kamikaze is pretty much like Kamui without the the high overhead. Hardness is shifted a level, so Kamikaze hard is like Kamui medium, their medium is like a Kamui soft, etc. kamikaze super soft is really soft and doesn’t last well. Fortunately they don’t cost much if you install them yourself.

Actually, mlb rules require wooden bats. If the players had their way, they would use these in a minute.

This sounds like as much a religious discussion as anything we could do in the billiards world except maybe chalk. I'm siding with thenaturalpoolplayer from a playing standpoint. I learned to play tennis on wooden racquets, now you might find a few on thrift shops and walls and I work with a...

I think for every one who can’t read that, you will have a dozen who can’t read a vernier micrometer. Everyone, give Dave a break here. The legal definition of an inch in the US Standard System (and no, Imperial is not nor has ever been a legal system in the US) is 2.54 cm = 25.4 mm. He...

The other characteristics I've seen are variations in weight and size. That is probably not strictly a function of the balls being polyester, but related to the reason they are polyester-- that the manufacturer is trying to cut costs at the expense of quality and just doing things cheaply. I...

I'm going to disagree on part of what you said. It is better. I find that I have far fewer miscues, have to apply chalk about a tenth as often, and don't have the mess to vacuum up. Being a retired chemical engineer, I can appreciate and understand the work done by the Japanese, American and...