adding wt. to shaft?
- Thread starter whiteoak
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Looking fwd to hearing the replies. I had a cue that was too light, had weight bolt installed, balance pt. was F'ed up. thought I'd have liked to add the weight other place than backside.
I have heard of some old-school cuemakers drilling and tapping down into the shaft wood through the hole in the brass insert and then adding weight using a hex-head machine screw. Not sure how much could be added that way but it doesn't seem like it would change the balance point much if it was 2-3 tenths.
Any cuemaker's thoughts ???
Any cuemaker's thoughts ???
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Butts normally weigh in at around 15.5 oz's, and shafts at about 3.7 to 4.0
So going to 19 or so, oz's is not hard to do.
Balance the cue as it should be. A good qualified cuemaker should know how to do this. Leave the shafts alone.
My opinion, guys. Works for me.
blud
When building a cue with two shafts, say the owner wants the cue weight at 19 oz's. To make this happen is not impossible.
I look for shafts of both sizes that weigh the same, ever though there differant sizes. Lots of trouble looking through maybe a 100 or so shafts, but the customers a happy camper. That's all that counts.
Funny story, a cuemaker in the ACA, told me he would never do such a thing for a pool player. PLEASE! This proved to me, he's in it for the cash only.
blud
Problem is when you add weight to the shafts, you change the balance point, and hit of the cue. To much weight in the shaft will in fact squirt the ball. There are a couple of cuemakers that have small threaded bolts in end of the shafts to screw the ferrule too. This works, but I'm not in favor of this method. Make controling the ball differantly from just a ferrule and tip up on top.cueaddicts said:
Butts normally weigh in at around 15.5 oz's, and shafts at about 3.7 to 4.0
So going to 19 or so, oz's is not hard to do.
Balance the cue as it should be. A good qualified cuemaker should know how to do this. Leave the shafts alone.
My opinion, guys. Works for me.
blud
When building a cue with two shafts, say the owner wants the cue weight at 19 oz's. To make this happen is not impossible.
I look for shafts of both sizes that weigh the same, ever though there differant sizes. Lots of trouble looking through maybe a 100 or so shafts, but the customers a happy camper. That's all that counts.
Funny story, a cuemaker in the ACA, told me he would never do such a thing for a pool player. PLEASE! This proved to me, he's in it for the cash only.
blud
whiteoak said:
.4 is quite a bit. Might make me question that piece of shaft wood. I'd opt to get a new shaft and specify the weight.
Donald A. Purdy said:
Don't know. I'll ask him next time I see him.
merylane said:
Several times a year. Mostly at the Florida Tour events.
Donald A. Purdy said:
Any chance you mean Harvey Martin? I understand that he would use a steel threaded rod to attach his ferrules. Adding end mass to a pool cue increases squirt so I would stay away from it.
i had a phillipe about 10 -12 years ago that developed a severe rattle. turns out both shafts had small brass cylinder glued in prior to installing the 5/16 14 tpi insert. gleu came loose on one of them. i have no idea if this was original from phillipe or not.
matthew staton
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blud said:
viking uses a little brass screw in the tip of there shaft for the ferrule I have unscrewed mine once that i had I thought it was kinda different..
matthew staton said:
Matt: "Cueman" on another thread (post #19) says Viking no longer uses a screw to attach the ferrule. How old is your shaft?