Carbon Break Butt Internal?
- Thread starter DeeRay86
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How do you do the joint end. With the tapered inside im curious what builders do.
I'm just curious, is everyone talking Butts or shafts? Sounds like both.
Just curious, what kind of weights are you hitting? Thanks!
Just the butt of the cue.
It'll depend on the tube, and fill your using. Ive only made one full carbon fiber breaker and I don't remember what the weight came out to be. I used a really heavy foam because i wanted the weight on the high side. But you can make it what ever you want. You want a light cue use lighter foam, you want heavy use a heavy foam. You want heavier, put a weight in it.
KGoods,
I'll admit I misread the OP, and have been referring to shafts primarily, but construction is the same. I built one carbon fiber butt, it came out to about 13 oz - too light for me. I now know how I would weight it up, but it hit too soft IMHO, so I haven't tried again.
On a butt, I would simply tap 3/8-16 into the inside ends of the inserts and cut off appropriate lengths of all-thread to bring the weight up to whatever I wanted. On a shaft, I don't add any weight to the tip end, to keep the deflection low.
YMMV
Thanks, great information. I have never attempted a CF butt yet but your experience is pretty much what I assumed. I didn't think you could get it to 14-15oz with just heavy foam.
Working on a CF shaft for a Meucci right now. Guy wants me to match his rings on his red dot. I ran out of 3/8-16 all thread so I used a bolt instead. I cut the head off the first one but it turns out the head was about 30% of the total weight of the bolt so I left it on in the final and it got me to my target 3.7oz for the shaft and moved the balance point forward a bit, sitting at about 9". Front 6" is hollow and the rest is filled with compacted cotton balls. Still need to throw the segmented ring together but I think it's going work out fine....
Looks kind of weird but nobody will ever see it!
Working on a CF shaft for a Meucci right now. Guy wants me to match his rings on his red dot. I ran out of 3/8-16 all thread so I used a bolt instead. I cut the head off the first one but it turns out the head was about 30% of the total weight of the bolt so I left it on in the final and it got me to my target 3.7oz for the shaft and moved the balance point forward a bit, sitting at about 9". Front 6" is hollow and the rest is filled with compacted cotton balls. Still need to throw the segmented ring together but I think it's going work out fine....
Looks kind of weird but nobody will ever see it!