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    Pechauer new carbon shaft Rogue 2

    Hi folks, can anyone tell me if the new Rogue 2 has a more resistant surface in comparison to the original firstly introduced Rogue? The original Rogue was not on that resistance level like used from other brands like predator, cuetec, mezz. The Ignite, 15K and Revo and many other carbon shafts...
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    MVP Cues

    seen today https://www.mvpcues.com , does anyone anything know about these cues? How to compare the playing behavir of thiese cues? deflection / hit ... This one https://www.mvpcues.com/images/finished/Nick.jpg is my favour and I'm cosidering to order one. If anybody likes to sell a similar...
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    Milkdud tips versus „just dry pressed without soaking in anything“

    I‘m doing Milkduds now for a couple of years and I think that I understand this process well. Soaking time and conditions, pressure constance and final drying time, all these parameters are to be controlled in order to acchieve a certain quality. Recently I was in a billard bar and had a house...
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    Dufferin jumpcue „Flower Power“

    Hi, I customized my jumpcue from Dufferin, which is my only jumpcue and works perfect for me. I added an extension an painted it with a very unusual design 😂 I call it now the „Flower Power“ 🤭 This is the beginning of a new design era in pool sports 🤩🤩🤩🙈
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    Mezz Wavy Joint

    Hi together, yesterday I had a close look on my Wavy pin of my Axi cue. I was surprised seeing a very unusual shape of the threaded bolt. There's app. in the middle of the flank a line where the thread has some kind of a hog, the flank has a special profile. I think this hog is the main reason...
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    Southwest cues - reasons for their popularity

    Hi together, I'm wondering why southwest cues are such exspensive. In first instance: It's the market, that's clear. But besides the market effects, there must be reasons WHY this market situation is so extreme at southwest. So, what is the difference of southwest, is there anything that makes...
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    Hypothesis: playing the tip you're used to is much mor important than any other mater

    Hypothesis: playing the tip you're used to is much mor important than any oth... Hi guys, after a couple of years playing pool billiard, playing different shafts from 11 to 13 mm, LD or no LD, differnet buts, weights, balance etc., I'm announcing now my personal theory of what is most...
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    Air between tennon and ferrule

    Bought a used breaker before o couple of weeks and was wondering why it felt so dead. While breaking it had a bad energy transfer although it was stiff enough. So I decided to cut the ferrule half of the length, and what I saw was not a surprise. The ferrule was capped and the bore inside for...
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    Female cuebuilders

    Does anybody know if there are also female cuebilders that should be regarded?
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    Radial pin

    Hi guys, I need a new shaft for my break cue, but don't know who was the cuemaker. It has a radial pin, but it doesn't fit to the radial of a friend's radial cue. The diameter is not the problem, it is the pitch that is slightly different. So I want to ask, if there are different radials and...
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    G10 material: what is it??

    Yesterday I took a G10 tip off from a break cue. As some her know I don't have a lathe, so I removed the G10 tip with a rasp. As usual some filings from G10 fell onto my upper leg that has never been a problem. But with this G10 material after a few minutes I recognized that the filings some...
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    Bandage of Earl Strickland / Hurt in the lower arm

    Hi guys, in the last weeks i often have a hurt in my left lower arm (the cuestick i grip with the right hand). So I'm wondering if the hurt may be caused by an overload of the muscels / sinews. Maybe the permanent strecht of the left arm gives an overload? Does anybody know the reason why Earl...
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    Predator 314 1st generation

    Hello, does anybody know if the predator shaft 314 /1 (314 1st generation) has also a drill-hole in the front end area as the 314/2 (314 2nd genereation, existing model) has?? A friend of mine said that his 314/1 wouldn't have a drill-hole, and I was surprised. Maybe he is wrong?? Before a...
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    Cocobolo with textured birch

    Her is my new cue from Cem. length of butt 76 cm, shafts 75 cm total length 59,5 " weight 19,2 oz, diameter buttend 31,3 mm fullcore pretty hard playing :-)
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    Dennis Searing

    Why are the cues of Dennis Searing so extremely expensive? Do they play so extraordinary well, doesn't he build anymore or does he build so few, or what is it?
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    Heaviest cue you ever played with

    What's the heaviest cue you ever played with? I'm curious. Thanks
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    Pictures from cocobolo plain janes

    Hello, I want to order a new cue. It shall be made very simple. As I öike cocobolo so much, the forearm and buttend shal be made from cocobolo. The wrap area shall be made from ebony. A litte decent ringwork, Joint ring black juma and also the buttend black juma. I want to ask kindly if anyone...
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    Density of Aegis II

    Does anybody know the density of Aegis II ferrule material? F. e. the elforyn material (Juma) has a density of 1,57 gramms per cubiccentimeter. Thanks
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    Heavy weight and light weight cues: advantages and disadvantages

    Hello, before a couple of days I finished my first selfmade cue. Made as a onepiece cue with an old McDaniel shaft and the butt from the limb of a beech. It took me many patience to get the butt staying straight, and it won't stay straight if I put it into another climate, but this is clear and...
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    Tom Hay's layered cuetips

    Recently someone advised me to use them on a WD 700 shaft, and now I'm a bit cuirous ... So I just want to ask for some experience with which other types / brands Tom's UltraSkin Layered cuetips can be compared if it goes about hardness and playability, how constant they play over the time...
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