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Joss would generally be close, both in terms of construction, dimensions, pin and SS collar. One thing about remembering the olden days is that we seem to have on rose tinted glasses and while the cue you had might have been a great cue, you being 20-30 years younger probably plays a huge part 😉

Thorsten is a stand up guy and he has done a lot for pool. Gracefully bowing out and opening his spot for a newcomer is just a classy thing to do.

Try loosen the handle on top a little more, it's probably got a spring loaded pin in there, so you might have to physically lift it up and rotate it to the next position.

Oh absolutely. I think PH is a great cue wood and as you say it's very stable and the weight usually isn't an issue. It all depends what woods it's paired with and where on the cue it's used 🙂

Generally Predator products are quite dead, they always remove as much material as possible. I think your playing style and prefrences matter a lot. I feel that shafts with little feedback (dead feeling) makes 14.1 really frustrating as there are so many soft shots and generally the play is more...

That would itch and quite possibly be deadly. Woodworkers back in the day was terrified of getting large splinters from certain woods as they are quite toxic to our body and it could result in sepsis or anaphylactic shock, rosewood and ebony are among the species that can trigger this.. As for...

Latin Jay ;) :ROFLMAO:

Revo is the deadest feeling shaft of those three, so the one that's the least like wood imo. Not terribly impressed with your two other choices either, but as with anything, if you have a chance to test a few before making a decsion, that would make it much easier than to just go by what the...

Cocobolo IS a rosewood.. The genus is Dalbergia, lots of varieties in that genus. Just to mention some of the spectrum BRW, African Blackwood and Tulipwood are all rosewoods, so in Latin: Dalbergia Nigra, Dalbergia Melanoxylon and Dalbergia frutescens

Gator tips are made by Andy Gilbert.. Excellent hard leather tips good grips, chalk stays on well and they need very little maintenance. These are denser and have a different quality leather than Kamui SAI, wich is a very popular break tip. Gator is much more similar to Zan Double Face. These...

Lots of excellent alternatives, it kinda depends on what you are looking for. 4 pages and no one has mentioned Gator tips..

There are several vendors you can special order a piece from. Meridian burl is excellent to deal with. Most of this goes through Facebook, but there are others as well if you have no luck there.

That might be true, but it's still wrong ;) If you do .312" for a regular 3/8-10 pin, like a McDermott, that's gonna be a very loose fit indeed. For a 3/8-10 Modified pin, it's only 4 thou off, but still the point of that pin is to live thread shafts with an accurate minor, so you get a perfect...

3/8-10 is not .312" and 5/16-14 is usually better with a letter F drill, so .257"

If you google: Tap drill chart, you'll get a big list of all common fine and coarse threads (UNF & UNC) but many of the threads commonly used in pool cues aren't standard threads. As for Radial, you can download the technical specs from the Uni-loc website, obviously you'll find the specs for...

Yes. after sanding, superglue on the backside of the tip, let that cure, sand figure 8, blow clean and clean both surfaces (tip and ferrule face) with isopropyl. Before gluing the tip on mask the ferrule/vault plate with painters tape. Obviously use a quality glue like Loctite 454.

The pad comes off as a red/orange ish powder, totally normal. Sand the tip in a figure 8 on a flat surface I use 220 grit. Blow off, the spred a drop of ca on the underside of the tip, let it cure and repeat the steps. Finally clean both faces with isopropyl, let that evaporate, wrap the ferrule...

You bore and ream.

A drill is not a good idea. If you have a standard 3/8-10 shaft, the minor is probably in the .285" range. For 3/8-10 Modified you would need a .308" minor and a H0 tap run through it afterwards.

Delrin is a bit tricky to engrave, melts quite easily, but it's doable if you do multiple passes and if it's a white buttcap use a marker just to get a bit more contrast, the laser isn't a huge fan of white reflective surfaces.