best break cue
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that sounds pretty good to me. :thumbup:
Predator BK2
I just got a Bk2 with sport grip and i love it...
I just got a Bk2 with sport grip and i love it...
breaker
An old j&j. Eighty dollars and sweet. I think it is the slightly thinner grip that makes it a winner for me.
An old j&j. Eighty dollars and sweet. I think it is the slightly thinner grip that makes it a winner for me.
I've tried most of the break cues on the market and tend to think that a break cue might be a little overrated. I had an inexpensive cue with a predator shaft that broke as well as anything else I tried. The only issue was that the layered tip wore down very quickly.
The rack is probably the most important part of a good break. Buy a copy of Joe Tuckers racking secrets and train yourself to hit the head ball square.
The rack is probably the most important part of a good break. Buy a copy of Joe Tuckers racking secrets and train yourself to hit the head ball square.
Breaking
I would like to see the Racking Secrets, I hear it's pretty informative and definitely helps. I agree with some of what you say here but I think there is an argument for both sides. I play with a guy who has a break like a sledgehammer, he can absolutely smash the balls. I'm amazed at this. He can do this with a cheap house cue or a high dollar break cue.
I don't have a thunderbolt break or even a powerful one to be honest. So, in my experience, when I break with a cheap house cue it tends to be worse than when I break with a good, solid break cue....I think a great break cue can certainly help some players like myself have a better break while others just don't need it....However, when you have an awesome break plus a high dollar break cue I think you have a lethal combo......
I would like to see the Racking Secrets, I hear it's pretty informative and definitely helps. I agree with some of what you say here but I think there is an argument for both sides. I play with a guy who has a break like a sledgehammer, he can absolutely smash the balls. I'm amazed at this. He can do this with a cheap house cue or a high dollar break cue.
I don't have a thunderbolt break or even a powerful one to be honest. So, in my experience, when I break with a cheap house cue it tends to be worse than when I break with a good, solid break cue....I think a great break cue can certainly help some players like myself have a better break while others just don't need it....However, when you have an awesome break plus a high dollar break cue I think you have a lethal combo......
Pangit
Banned
to each his/her own. I bought a dreadnought of a cue a little over a year ago. 2500 PHP. 23.25 oz's. Solid philippine ebony from the joint down. HEAVY. Put a standard brunswick blue diamond tip on the cue...and wasn't impressed for the few first months. But the tip has compacted and gotten hard. Now I can sling it like a lite break cue but with all that inertia. The ball's dance all over the table.
I wonder how this strange myth that "smashing the balls" is the best way to break got started....
My best break cue ever...which was stolen...
I ordered a sneaky pete type break cue from a well-known cuemaker. Standard stuff - 58" - 20 oz. - 13 mm shaft. When he gave it to me it was 60"...which I said I couldn't take that...which he said it would cost me to take an inch off the butt and an inch off the shaft. He agreed to take 2" off the shaft for free...thanks a lot. I was a bit miffed. Until I used it as a break cue - WOW!! - stiff as a brick and hit like a truck without much effort at all.
I had that cue and an ordinary McDermott cue in a Jack Justis case...with my name on it...stolen and never saw it again.
I ordered a sneaky pete type break cue from a well-known cuemaker. Standard stuff - 58" - 20 oz. - 13 mm shaft. When he gave it to me it was 60"...which I said I couldn't take that...which he said it would cost me to take an inch off the butt and an inch off the shaft. He agreed to take 2" off the shaft for free...thanks a lot. I was a bit miffed. Until I used it as a break cue - WOW!! - stiff as a brick and hit like a truck without much effort at all.
I had that cue and an ordinary McDermott cue in a Jack Justis case...with my name on it...stolen and never saw it again.
