How to tell if a cue is cored?
- Thread starter bryanlee
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Look at the face where the joint screw goes in.
Does the wood look different from the forearm?
You can do the same by removing the bumper.
That's as good as you can do without x-raying the cue.
Yup. Some cues, you cant tell if they are cored or not, unless you x-ray the cue.
A non cored cue can also have a nice hit and good balance, so that's not a way to determine construction method.
Looks at the grain lines that run along the forearm, and see if they line up with the grain lines at the joint face. If they do not, then it's cored. If they do, then look to see if they are spaced the same, and if at all possible imagine that there is no joint collar and visualize whether or not the grains connect. It shouldn't be all that difficult to tell if it's cored, unless the maker used a maple core that was similar in grain structure to the forearm wood, and took note to line the grains up. Usually we all turn the core so the grains are 90* to one another.
It is fine to play with. Go enjoy your cue.
Stroud said he first did it in 1968. http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=2829036&postcount=18