best shaft for ball pocketing/accuracy?

uk_9_ball_convert said:
They all use wood, think a lot of them are wooden cues made by John Parris, but he has something ridiculous like a 10 year waiting list if you want to buy one of his cues. Snooker has been very traditional, but there has been a recent trend of players moving to titanium ferule to reduce deflection instead of brass which was the norm before (before that never really heard snooker players talk about anything equipment related to reduce deflection).

There was an interesting episode of Karl Boyes Youtube channel where he had Gary Wilson (pro snooker player who also plays some pool tournaments) talking about his pool cue and they ended up getting into a lot of detail about how the ferule material effects deflection, but also about how wood and carbon deflect differently. He mentioned something I hadn't heard before, the harder he hits a shot with a wood cue the more deflection he has, whilst with a carbon cue the harder he hits it the less deflection you get. Don't actually have experience of playing with a carbon cue to corroborate that myself, but found it interesting. He sees snooker as his main career so he doesn't want to get used to something to different from his snooker cue at pool, but said if pool was his main priority he'd play with carbon as he feels disadvantaged at playing power shots using a wooden cue.
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He's a great player but he doesn't know a lot about how a cue/deflection works. Hitting harder won't increase/decrease a cues deflection. The initial squirt/deflection starting line is the same regardless of speed, the harder you hit it the longer the cb stays on that line before any swerve can occur. What one feels and what actually happens are often miles apart.
 
uk_9_ball_convert said:
... Gary mentions his snooker tip is 9mm in that video. But they are also hitting smaller balls so not sure it transfers, ...
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To compare, I think it makes sense to go by % of ball width that the tip represents.

For Gary: 9mm/52.5mm = 17%

For a 12mm pool shaft: 12/57.15 = 21%

So, a 12mm pool tip looks bigger on the ball than a 9mm snooker tip.
 
trob said:
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Well, he did cross most of the important parameters off the list of things to consider, so the question doesn't mean much. Here's my suggestion:

A 12 mm stainless steel tube

I once got a 5/8-inch solid aluminum rod and put a tip on it. Hit the ball a ton, but I couldn't get used to the cue ball deflection.
 
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