About pool cue straightness?

Ipmtim said:
What is the correct way to store my cues?
Also, what is the plumb line method of checking straightness?
With all due respect,
Tim
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Agree with those who recommend a good case, and storing the cues upright. That way there's no sideways pressure on either shafts or butts.

I mentioned plumb line for butt only, because it's hard to tell by rolling it on a table. Slate is not milled perfectly, and eyesight is not perfect either.

Technically a plumb line is a string or thread with a weight attached suspended in the air, to tell whether a lower line or surface is perpendicular, or off at whatever angle. In this case, a plumb line would be fine string or thread looped around the joint pin, down the center of the joint, then stretched down to the center of the end, or bumper, and secured. Best to secure the butt in a vise with towel to cushion it if you want to try. It's actually more valuable to tell if your points and inlays are really centered, but you can also test the overall straightness of the butt. Take several points on the butt, and measure with calipers to each edge of the cue from the thread. Exactly equal measurements on each side of the line equals a straight butt.

Probably not a big deal in most cases, especially if your assembled cue is rolling pretty good, with no wobble, or minimum wobble, and you are pocketing balls fine. But it is brutally revealing in examining just the butt, for information.

All the best,
WW
 
All my cues are straight. As I said.

That's my story and I am sticking to it...as I said.


But I wanted to add....they are all straight until someone comes along and rolls one on a table. Therefore rolling cues on a table bends them. That's my story and I am sticking to it. :rolleyes::D:p





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I was sitting at home tonight watching tv and got bored so I thought o would clean my cues in preparation for a tournament this weekend. Just for the heck of it I wild check and see how straight they are.

I was kinda hesitant about it ....thinking if they were not straight or semi straight it would mess my mental game up .:eek:

Surprisingly they were all pretty straight. Then I decided to he a few out of the closet and check them also. I got a real big surprise.:grin-square:

My oldest and most neglected cue is the straightest cue of them all. It's a 15 year old Viking....maybe a year or 2 older than 15.....not quite sure.....memory aint what it used to be.

Its the first cue I bought when I got back I to playing pool after a 30 year hiatus. I have taken it to bars....let other people shoot with I ....broke with it and left it in the trunk of my car in the dead of winter and scorching summers after a night of bar hopping. Its the only cue I have ever treated that way and its the straightest....go figure. :confused:

Fortunately I have wised up and treat all my cues a lot better now a days. That Viking has always been my favorite .....kinda my first love when it comes to cues. My ex girlfriends dope head son knew it and busted the fore arm right below the joint. Of course he denied it but just too coincidental in my book it was busted the day after I got on him for driving his moms car while drinking.

Hope to get it fixed one day but I realize it will probably cist more than its worth.
 
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