Cheap a** cues

Billiard Architect

Billiard Architect

AzB Silver Member
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So finish turning my router mount into an engine mount for a 68 olds and am ready to mount up my first cue refinish. I measure out 29 inches off of one of the cheap ace cues I have in the shop and start cutting. I hit something hard halfway through and immediately stop. I look in the cut and see threads. SOB. They put a weight bolt in the middle. I pull off the rubber bumper and sure enough a solid piece of wood. I looked at the other cues and saw they were the same cues.... Damn. I have some Dufferins that I forgot to bring today. So I put in the square of poplar that I rounded with my router last week and tested the cuesmith drive spur I got this week. Worked like a champ

Question is: what percentage of house cues are built this way. I assume the Dufferins will be built correctly but what others should I avoid?
 
greyghost

greyghost

Coast to Coast
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Billiard Architect said:
So finish turning my router mount into an engine mount for a 68 olds and am ready to mount up my first cue refinish. I measure out 29 inches off of one of the cheap ace cues I have in the shop and start cutting. I hit something hard halfway through and immediately stop. I look in the cut and see threads. SOB. They put a weight bolt in the middle. I pull off the rubber bumper and sure enough a solid piece of wood. I looked at the other cues and saw they were the same cues.... Damn. I have some Dufferins that I forgot to bring today. So I put in the square of poplar that I rounded with my router last week and tested the cuesmith drive spur I got this week. Worked like a champ

Question is: what percentage of house cues are built this way. I assume the Dufferins will be built correctly but what others should I avoid?
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Lol Titlist and other Brunswick house cues are like that too


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Sheldon

Sheldon

dontneednostinkintitle
Silver Member
If you look at them closely, you can see the joint if there's a connecting screw in the middle.
 
boogieman

boogieman

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
cueman said:
Put a strong magnet on the cue and it should tell you if there is a screw or rod in there. The magnet will not pick up stainless but in cheap cues stainless is unlikely.
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Great idea. I used to do metal salvage/scrap-ing for a job, magnets were essential to tell some metals. I would have never thought to do the same with a cue. You could even use a cheap (non digital) stud finder to pinpoint where the metal was in the cue. Thanks for the learnin'.
 
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