Nickel or dime shape?
- Thread starter Gregg
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Myself I always liked a 7 1/2 cent dome. Somewhere in between the two.
I'm using a McDermott I-2 shaft which came with a moori med dime shaped. McDermott sends their cues out with dime shape tips....PlatinumBilliards.com has a great chart that compares cue squirt by manufacturer....The chart lists the tip shape of each stock shaft tested...
I wasn't aware of this when I got my first McDermott and I thought it was supposed to have a nickel shape I reshaped it and promptly sent it back to McDermott for the maintenance plan just so it would be retipped....it effected my game that much.....I'm just a novice but that change certainly negatively impacted my game....I guess the best advice is to stick with what works best for you
McCue Banger McCue
I wasn't aware of this when I got my first McDermott and I thought it was supposed to have a nickel shape I reshaped it and promptly sent it back to McDermott for the maintenance plan just so it would be retipped....it effected my game that much.....I'm just a novice but that change certainly negatively impacted my game....I guess the best advice is to stick with what works best for you
McCue Banger McCue
You suckers will believe anything the Predator hype machine spoon feeds you. If Predator said to climb a tree and jump out would you do that too?. How about coming to your own conclusions about these things.tjlmbklr said:
It's not about what Predator says is best, it's what works best for each individual player. If Gregg says he plays better with a nickel radius than that's what Gregg should use. Why should he insist on using a dime, because Predator and Platinum billiards say so?. You should do what works best for you. I just love corporate peer pressure. Look up Gullible in the dictionary, then slap yourself.
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Summary:-
gullible - , fleeceable, green
Detailed description:-
2 Dictionary Entries found
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1) s :easily tricked because of being too trusting
Example: gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
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2) s :naive and easily deceived or tricked
Example: at that early age she had been gullible and in love
i have always used a dime shape tip, well i shaped it to a dime then that was it chalking and playing with it might not be a dime anymore but close LOL.
Can't make a ball w/ that dime shape...
tjlmbklr said:
I think what they mean is that their deflection tests showed the lowest deflection when they used a dime shape. If you prefer a nickel shape, I'm sure you can ignore this recommendation. I used to use a nickel shape on my predator, but I've learned I prefer dime.
-Andrew
That time of the month for Nico! Take it easy, slick!
Nico said:You suckers will believe anything the Predator hype machine spoon feeds you. If Predator said to climb a tree and jump out would you do that too?. How about coming to your own conclusions about these things.
It's not about what Predator says is best, it's what works best for each individual player. If Gregg says he plays better with a nickel radius than that's what Gregg should use. Why should he insist on using a dime, because Predator and Platinum billiards say so?. You should do what works best for you. I just love corporate peer pressure. Look up Gullible in the dictionary, then slap yourself.
Dime Shape and Platinum Billiards...
I started using dime shape because when my cue came I chalked it up and started playing......My point about Platinum Billiards was that the squirt chart shows which tip curve the manufacturer ships the shaft with. I found out it was a dime shape that I was using when i visited the site...and to be quite honest at that time I wasn't aware that there were different tip radii I just assumed they were all the same.
I shoot with dime shape because that's what I started with and when I reshaped it to nickel my game suffered....so I went back to dime.....and when my I-2 shaft arrived it was dime I chalked and played it and it felt right to me...
Incidently I haven't looked at that chart in some time but I don't think all the top low squirt shafts were dime.....I'll have to go look again though
McCue Banger McCue
I started using dime shape because when my cue came I chalked it up and started playing......My point about Platinum Billiards was that the squirt chart shows which tip curve the manufacturer ships the shaft with. I found out it was a dime shape that I was using when i visited the site...and to be quite honest at that time I wasn't aware that there were different tip radii I just assumed they were all the same.
I shoot with dime shape because that's what I started with and when I reshaped it to nickel my game suffered....so I went back to dime.....and when my I-2 shaft arrived it was dime I chalked and played it and it felt right to me...
Incidently I haven't looked at that chart in some time but I don't think all the top low squirt shafts were dime.....I'll have to go look again though
McCue Banger McCue
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I like mine in between.
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Nico said:
NUFF SAID..........