straighter than this
So this should be okay. Right?
straighter than this
So this should be okay. Right?
I've never rolled any of my cues. It's just a superstition of mine. So far as I'm concerned, the cue I'm using is the straightest cue I've ever used
Have you posted a photo of your cues. I'd love to see them?From a playability standpoint a little roll dosent seem to matter but sometimes just a little
roll in the shaft causes a bad enough roll at the tip to cause a problem.
The roll gets noticeable when playing those touchy soft cuts into the side pocket.
The slightest roll can kill the sale of a cue, but it depends on the cue.
Locally guys can tryout a nice cue that developed a little roll and it's not that tough but with online sales it's a big deal.
For instance I have a cool vintage Josswest and a Judd that each have a small roll.
They roll good screwed together but you can see movement at the nose...like a lot of South Wests.
The fix isn't worth it as small as the roll is in these two cues, but it's just something you have to deal with when selling vintage cues, and adjust the price accordingly.
Sadly these two cues are about my best playing Josswest & Judd.
Have you posted a photo of your cues. I'd love to see them?
So this should be okay. Right?
All the experts I know roll a cue on the pool table to evaluate its quality.
Depends on where the bend is though, no?
A little bend at the ferrule area would render a cue useless, imo.
if it wobbles... you gotta buy a new table
Straightness doesn't matter to me in the slightest. I've made shots with an Adam that had a 1/4" wobble that 95% of pool players can't make. I've run hundreds of tables with a house cue that had a dog-leg in the shaft that you could notice from 25ft.
I do not want to play you for money
I'm not that great and I don't play for money, regardless. In fact, I basically will only play with six people. Three years ago I would only play with five people. It took number six over a year of knowing me before I'd play with him.
I'm an engineer and years ago I wrote a list of every potential problem I could come up with as to why a warped cue might present a problem. I was CAD'ing and animating some of the things, figuring out forces incurred, velocity vectors, etc.. I could not find even a marginal difference in a 'straight' stick and a severely crooked stick.
I haven't been able to convince many other people, tho.