13mm tip?

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It's considered the "standard"? Watch the Pro's..even on TV, you know most aren't using anything near 13mm. It feels like a baseball bat.

80 percent are using tip's/shafts closer to 12mm, or less?

I like 11.5 conical.
 
Pangit said:
It's considered the "standard"? Watch the Pro's..even on TV, you know most aren't using anything near 13mm. It feels like a baseball bat.

80 percent are using tip's/shafts closer to 12mm, or less?

I like 11.5 conical.
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You'll find the Professional Players will be between an 11 and 12.5mm at the tip....I would recommend using a 12.5, but don't take it down that far from a 13mm at first....take down no more than a quarter mm. at a time so it doesn't warp....this may be cautious, but better safe than sorry;) imho
 
I think the key word here is "Professionals". A 13mm is more forgiving than an 11.5. Professionals have honed there stroke to near perfection if not perfection and the rest of us are still trying to get our stroke there. Anything less than a 13mm will definetly seperate you from a professional.
 
Chi2dxa said:
I think the key word here is "Professionals". A 13mm is more forgiving than an 11.5. Professionals have honed there stroke to near perfection if not perfection and the rest of us are still trying to get our stroke there. Anything less than a 13mm will definetly seperate you from a professional.
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When I was 13 yrs. old & introduced to the game at a bowling alley, my father found the thinest house cue he could find while I went for the lightest. Now after 46 yrs. of playing I prefer less than 12mm with a conical (European) taper. With the smaller tip you can better define how much off center you hit the CB even for follow or draw spin if you don't use side spin. I use a combination of spin on almost every shot.

For a beginner or novice I would recomend they use what ever best fits their hand for a closed bridge. Some people have big hands & others have small hands & yet others have average hands. If someone started with a 12mm & played with only that, they would not know any difference but if they then saw a 13mm it would probably 'look' huge to them.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just offering another option.
 
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ENGLISH! said:
With the smaller tip you can better define how much off center you hit the CB even for follow or draw spin if you don't use side spin. I use a combination of spin on almost every shot.

For a beginner or novice I would recomend they use what ever best fits their hand for a closed bridge. Some people have big hands & others have small hands & yet others have average hands. If someone started with a 12mm & played with only that, they would not know any difference but if they then saw a 13mm it would probably 'look' huge to them.
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Well Said ! :thumbup:

I have had several ppl ask me why I play a narrow (11-11.25mm) tip and I have always had a bit of trouble explaining.

BTW OB Cues cut an OB-2 down to 11.25 for me and said that they couldn't guarantee "rigidity" if the shaft were cut lower than 11.25mm. Something to consider if you choose to turn down a shaft.
 
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I made a guy a couple of 14mm shafts once. They had a very strange feel to me, but he liked them.
Shafts that are 12.75mm seem to be a good compromise as most of the custom shaft makers use that size.
If you're down to 12.5mm and under, you probably should have a good repeatable stroke to go along with it. :smile:
 
13 is a perfect production standard.

Just enough material there for you to make it any size or shape but not too much for a beginner to learn to play.
 
12.75 with 2/4 ferrule straight into mod. pro taper is butter for me, but I think the smallest diameter id go is 12.5. This is also because I don like laminated shafts, I dont need my shaft getting to whippy on me.
 
Pangit said:
It's considered the "standard"? Watch the Pro's..even on TV, you know most aren't using anything near 13mm. It feels like a baseball bat.

80 percent are using tip's/shafts closer to 12mm, or less?

I like 11.5 conical.
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I can't stand 13mm tips. Just can't get used to one. I am using 11.75, and I really like that.
 
I prefer 12mm tips. Always have. I encourage others to try different size tips and tapers until they know what they like.
 
I have shafts that range from 12 to 13.2 I play with any/all of them when the mood hits me.

I have been rotating through cues about once a year for the past 4 years.

Do I have a preference of diameter, not really. I am more picky about other characteristics.
 
cjssecrets4u2 said:
You'll find the Professional Players will be between an 11 and 12.5mm at the tip....I would recommend using a 12.5, but don't take it down that far from a 13mm at first....take down no more than a quarter mm. at a time so it doesn't warp....this may be cautious, but better safe than sorry;) imho
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Cj, about 20 years ago or around that, you played a player from baltimore down in florida at a place called the flamingo (Dales place) his name was Tom Vanover you guys went back and forth for some time until you hit your stride and you went on to win a couple thousand,but anyhow this man Tom Vanover used the thinest shaft i ever seen any great pool player use, do you happen to remember this match at all and the size of that pencil thin shaft that Vanover used?
 
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