Thank you in advance for any advice. In 1997 I bought a Mike Erwin cue and it played so smooth. When I would stroke the cue ball it was like shooting into a cloud or a pillow. Sometime I couldn't even feel it hit the cue ball. I am wanting to know, if you had to build a cue to play as soft as possible, how would you do it? Type of woods, shaft diameter, ferrule length, joint type, one piece butt or spliced, etc. I am already there on the soft tip. I like the cue to be around 20 ounces and 58' in. length. I am considering ordering one from Schmelke unless someone has another suggestion. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. fyi I don't care about deflection.
Build a soft hitting cue
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Soft hitting cue, sure, but most of that soft hit will come from the taper, diameter of the shaft and ferrule material. Very soft hitting cues has somewhat gone out of favour, but it's not hard to ectend the taper a bit and use a medium soft ferrule material. As for the butt, try to steer clear of the most dense woods and you should be fine.
I wouldn't make one.
In early 2000, I made some cues with a laminated birch core. They hit softer than the cues I cored with Maple.
Yes. Several types. Didn't give the effect that I'm looking for.
Interestingly I did. Last spring I bought my Dad a Pechauer and he loves it so much I thought I would try one. So I bought a JP model which had the juma joint and the shaft had a 1" juma ferrule and I put an elkmaster on it. 12.5 mm shaft. That was the single worst cue I have ever played with. Beautifully constructed, well balanced. But it was like driving a steel rod through the cue ball. Whenever I had to put a stroke on the ball or ANY draw shot it made this God awful chunk sound and sounded like the ferrule was break off. Beyond stiff. I took it to a cue maker/repair guy nearby in Fayetteville. He said there was nothing wrong with it, no defects or anything. Sold that cue shortly thereafter. I shoot with a Joss, standard shaft and am just looking to get an additional cue to piddle with. One that plays like my old Mike Erwin. Mike ran the Meucci shop for years and a Meucci is the closest I've found but I've looked at a bunch and the quality of the builds is not very good. Especially for the money. Not sure what's happened to that company.
30" laminated maple dowel will quiet it down a lot and the gorilla glue subdues the sound and feel also.
Now you have a 58" maple cue. The forearm, handle and butt sleeve wood combos will have and effect but even with Ebony components it only changes the sound and feel about 10%.
Now you have a 58" maple cue. The forearm, handle and butt sleeve wood combos will have and effect but even with Ebony components it only changes the sound and feel about 10%.