adding weight to a butt

[pescadoman]

I bought some sneaky blanks and the latest one comes in at around 12 oz and change with the pin(not installed). I am wondering if running a gun drill up the butt and coring it with coco or ph would be advisable. I really don't want to add a bunch of weight with a bolt at the end..
Thank you in advance.

 

[manwon]

I bought some sneaky blanks and the latest one comes in at around 12 oz and change with the pin(not installed). I am wondering if running a gun drill up the butt and coring it with coco or ph would be advisable. I really don't want to add a bunch of weight with a bolt at the end..
Thank you in advance.

There is nothing wrong with doing that and yes you could add some doing that. It all depends how much weight you want to add, what I have done to better balance a cue was to add weight forward in the following manner to prevent a cue from being butt heavy.

I have made a number of cues that were light like you describe so I also cored them up into the handle area from the back of the cue. I then bored a section farther into the handle tapped this section and added a screw to the front of the core and screwed the core in so that the weight was more forward.

Now if this doesn't completely balance the cue like you like, you can also add extra weight behind the cues pin and then use a standard weight bolt. I have done this in the past for customers who had butt heavy cues and wanted to change the balance forward with out changing the cues weight.

Hope this helps

 

[rhncue]

I bought some sneaky blanks and the latest one comes in at around 12 oz and change with the pin(not installed). I am wondering if running a gun drill up the butt and coring it with coco or ph would be advisable. I really don't want to add a bunch of weight with a bolt at the end..
Thank you in advance.

Depending on what you want your final weight to be and just how much change is added onto that 12.oz., that really isn't that light when you figure 3.7 to 4. oz. for a shaft, .9 to 1.3 oz for the pin, a .250 oz. for a bumper plus the finish doesn't make it really light but, to answer your question, yes, another heavier wood can be used but it is more apt to making the cue butt heavy. I like to use Purple heart myself as it's not real heavy and plays very well.

Dick

 

[pescadoman]

Depending on what you want your final weight to be and just how much change is added onto that 12.oz., that really isn't that light when you figure 3.7 to 4. oz. for a shaft, .9 to 1.3 oz for the pin, a .250 oz. for a bumper plus the finish doesn't make it really light but, to answer your question, yes, another heavier wood can be used but it is more apt to making the cue butt heavy. I like to use Purple heart myself as it's not real heavy and plays very well.

Dick

It weighs in at 16.25 oz with shaft, ferrule, and SS pin...
It appears that PH is roughly 15% heavier than maple, so I suppose I could remove 6oz with a .680 and get .9 oz and add an oz up front and an ounce in the back?
Or i could do the same with coco and get 1.8 oz and only have to add a bit of metal...
Am I making sense?

 

[greyghost]

my ex used to complain all the time about getting rid of the extra weight in her butt.

Only from my own experience with her, since your trying to add weight to the butt. I would suggest removing the buttcap and stuffing some mcdonalds double cheese burgers in there.

If you want to add just a little at a time, go grab some white castle.