Cue butt material

Mike81

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Stupid pin question here,. If you have a forearm wood with great tone, which 3/8-10 pin would you use to maintain that sound? I was told that a stainless pin will mute the sound and a g10 would not. Any truth to that?
 

measureman

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Why did the old time master cue makers use straight grain maple almost exclusively?
Were exotic woods too expensive or did they think they were no good?
 

AK-Stick

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Cocus wood makes a great cue I know of two one made by Dennis Searing one by Steve Dunkel both play great. Finding a decent piece of Cocus wood is a chore and $$$$&. Pernambuco is also a great playing wood but also difficult to find.
My personal thought is a good tonal wood has attributes to playability. No proof of that just my opinion.
 

AK-Stick

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BBB, Jamaican Cocus Wood was considered the premier wood for bag pipes but was about used up an near impossible to obtain so other woods such as Blackwood and now I believe Mopane are woods of choice.
 

Kim Bye

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Stupid pin question here,. If you have a forearm wood with great tone, which 3/8-10 pin would you use to maintain that sound? I was told that a stainless pin will mute the sound and a g10 would not. Any truth to that?

Your overthinking things. The joint pin can be used as a final means of getting just the right balance.
Some makers use G10, brass or SS exclusively, if it`s the "best" material or not can be debated forever, but you can infer that a cuemaker that uses only brass pins (like SW) thinks that`s the best pin material.
 

Mike81

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Your overthinking things. The joint pin can be used as a final means of getting just the right balance.
Some makers use G10, brass or SS exclusively, if it`s the "best" material or not can be debated forever, but you can infer that a cuemaker that uses only brass pins (like SW) thinks that`s the best pin material.

Thanks Kim, I overthink everything
 

JoeyInCali

Maker of Joey Bautista Cues
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Stupid pin question here,. If you have a forearm wood with great tone, which 3/8-10 pin would you use to maintain that sound? I was told that a stainless pin will mute the sound and a g10 would not. Any truth to that?

That would depend on the weight of the forearm and handle .
You can get an SS 3/8 10 screw that only weighs .8 oz instead of 1.3.
 

Mcues

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That would depend on the weight of the forearm and handle .
You can get an SS 3/8 10 screw that only weighs .8 oz instead of 1.3.

First of the year :) a little confused as to how this addresses not muting the sound.

Mario
 

JoeyInCali

Maker of Joey Bautista Cues
Silver Member
First of the year :) a little confused as to how this addresses not muting the sound.

Mario

Sorry, I still have a hangover .

Muting the sound ?
Not touching that now.
Gonna stick to weight and balance for now.
 
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