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As a lover of straight pool, I am enjoying more and more watching these amazing snooker players pick apart a frame of snooker going from black to color to black ... etc.

Anyway, I just can't get over the cues they use. Here are a few screen captures of Steve Davis's cue and more specifically, his cue tip captured from a youtube instructional video he did.

And we labor over our tips, and shafts .... What the hell is this thing?????????
 

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3andstop said:
As a lover of straight pool, I am enjoying more and more watching these amazing snooker players pick apart a frame of snooker going from black to color to black ... etc.

Anyway, I just can't get over the cues they use. Here are a few screen captures of Steve Davis's cue and more specifically, his cue tip captured from a youtube instructional video he did.

And we labor over our tips, and shafts .... What the hell is this thing?????????
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Their tips tend to be lop-sided because their cues butts have chamfers.
This encourages a player to hold the cue the same way all the time.

The best snooker in history is being played right now, but the cues and
tables are still in the dark ages.
Some young player will start playing with a cue that more resembles
pool technology and make them change their cues....but they'll still
be using leather pockets that reject center-pocket hits at a high speed.

The side-mounted rails require the expensive 'steel-block' option....
...just to hit as good as a 6x12 Gold Crown.
 
pt109 said:
Their tips tend to be lop-sided because their cues butts have chamfers.
This encourages a player to hold the cue the same way all the time.

The best snooker in history is being played right now, but the cues and
tables are still in the dark ages.
Some young player will start playing with a cue that more resembles
pool technology and make them change their cues....but they'll still
be using leather pockets that reject center-pocket hits at a high speed.

The side-mounted rails require the expensive 'steel-block' option....
...just to hit as good as a 6x12 Gold Crown.
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Actually, the new Star tables are supposed to be top notch, and Predator snooker cues are on their way, apparently. There's nothing wrong with snooker equipment as it is - doesn't seem to hamper us in any way.

It amazed me the other day to see some of you lot complaining about the grain of the wood on a snooker cue, and that it's off-putting. You have gaudy inlays, vomitous colours, bloody rings, joint collars, pointless points, no end of endangered animal parts, and you're complaining about a single piece of plained wood?

What's the matter with you people?
 
Serious question about the tips

I am curious as to why they prefer to play with the mushroomed tip. Clearly, there must be a reason since it takes as much effort to create that degree of mushrooming as it does to shape and manage a tip the way US players do.

Any insight?
 
joelpope said:
I am curious as to why they prefer to play with the mushroomed tip. Clearly, there must be a reason since it takes as much effort to create that degree of mushrooming as it does to shape and manage a tip the way US players do.

Any insight?
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Some prefer it, some don't. Largely, UK players (snooker & English 8 ball) are less concerned with their equipment than US players, and just get on with using what they have without a second's thought.
 
TheThaiger said:
Some prefer it, some don't. Largely, UK players (snooker & English 8 ball) are less concerned with their equipment than US players, and just get on with using what they have without a second's thought.
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and the women tolerate it????:D
 
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