3-cushion billiards

Let not forget carom cues also have numerous different joint pins - Wooden Threads with different pitch, 3/8" x 10, Double threads, Schuler and Layani joint.

But look what 3 Cushion Champion A. Gilbert did with a Martin Cues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Years ago 70's & 80's when I still played pool I used a Meuci for both games. In the early 90's I met Harry Sims and he told me I needed to change the shaft for 3C. So he made one for me. It immediately change my game although the joint diameter was too small for him to make it as stiff as he wanted and still have a decent length. So he made me a complete cue. After getting used to it, another jump occurred.

The other day I found myself in the pool hall without my Magik Wandzzz. The owner offered to let me use one of their rental cues made by a well known pool cue maker. I played a couple of innings and couldn't hit a thing. Missed the break shot so bad I hit the short rail first. So I put it down and went to the wall, found an old 15oz beat to crap slightly warped cue with appropriately mushroomed tip. The game changed immediately.

Theory, the cue was naturally balance toward the rear and a much stiffer cue. If you haven't read Dieckman's pages I linked to, basically balance point and shaft stiffness are the 2 main differences between a pool and carom cue. Carom cues are butt heavy with a stiffer shaft. Pool cues are forward balanced with a longer taper shaft. But read the pages for more detail.

My personal preference is a modified European taper. It has just a tiny bit of whip compared to a cone but still very stiff compared to the long pro taper pool shafts. Cue weight, well it seems I'm moving down from 18oz to 14oz as soon as the man delivers and he's working at lightning speed maybe only 6 months of me losing sleep thinking about it.
 
And on the topic of Ron...I am using his Shooni taper and love it. Feels lik e a great midpoint between the pool cue/ traditional carom cue. Not that the pool cue is getting any table time.
 
I play three cushion as often as I can, which is usually once a week. The rating scale here in New York is based on 50, not on 25, so if you are rated 50, you are expected to average about 1.0. The highest my rating reached was in about 2003, when it was 24, translating to an average of 0.48, but I was playing three cushion more often back then and I average a little less than that now.

As far as what cue I use, I'm quite lucky that Wei Chao (or, as we know him on the forum, Cuetable), with whom I often play three cushion, owns two three cushion cues and let's me use one of them when we play.
 
sjm said:
I play three cushion as often as I can, which is usually once a week. The rating scale here in New York is based on 50, not on 25, so if you are rated 50, you are expected to average about 1.0. The highest my rating reached was in about 2003, when it was 24, translating to an average of 0.48, but I was playing three cushion more often back then and I average a little less than that now.

As far as what cue I use, I'm quite lucky that Wei Chao (or, as we know him on the forum, Cuetable), with whom I often play three cushion, owns two three cushion cues and let's me use one of them when we play.
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There's a threesome I'd like to make!:eek:
 
I asked the owner this afternoon about the handicap system and if there is A class, B class, etc... He said there isn't. He said you just go by your handicap and they don't break them into classes.

Also, the tables at the place where I'm playing are Soren Sogaard Super Royal tables. Really nice tables.
MULLY
 
mullyman said:
I asked the owner this afternoon about the handicap system and if there is A class, B class, etc... He said there isn't. He said you just go by your handicap and they don't break them into classes.

Also, the tables at the place where I'm playing are Soren Sogaard Super Royal tables. Really nice tables.
MULLY
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YOu are right. Nice tables!
 
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