cigar butt taper

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I was thinking about having a cue built with sort of a cigar style taper in the butt, but with the fattest area and heaviest wood directly at the balance point of the cue. I think it might be kinda cool to have the entire cue built around the balance point, instead of adding metal weight on both sides to balance it. Any insight on how one built like this might play?
 
dont know how i feel about this. i wouldnt try it. most makers wouldnt either. if it doesnt come out a cuemaker doesnt want to eat it or have anyone see it. bad for buisness u know. about a year ago a friend wanted a plain bacote cue .845 to like 1.200 at the end. it came out terrible and no one has ever seen that cue.

cuttently i make my cues 29 1-2 inches .845 to 1.265ish and i dont require a weight bolt really just a small aluminum bolt to hold on the buttcap and bumper. with a nice 4+oz shaft i get in the 19 oz range. every cue is a little different but not that much.

my skip is also 29.5 with an ivory joint and weight is 19.25 oz. i am changing my specs to that cue as we speak
 
yea i will give the builder the option not to sign it for fear of association with such a strange custom order. And it will have a 314, so no real way to trace it back.

I know some black boars are made with a cigar taper as was a jacoby jump break i used to own and play with and I liked it a lot. However the fattest part of the butt was only 8.5 inches from the bottom of the buttcap. I want it 18.5 inches. Anyone think it might work?
 
I have been making Qs for only 22 years & Qs have been around for ever. It sounds like you are trying to reinvent the bucket...JER
 
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Shafts have been around forever too but only recently people have begun experimenting on how to make improvements to them. And they have IMO.

I'm not trying to reinvent anything. Shafts get all the attention but maybe butts should be scrutinized. Like i said, that style taper has been done before with fine results, im just interested in tweaking that taper to balance the cue soley on the weight of the wood vs sticking hunks of metal all over it. call me a purist.
 
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Fullsplice, I deleated the last line of my post. Sorry, if it came across as rude. Just had a bad day & took it out on you. Keep on posting, who knows you may just come up with a better bucket...JER
 
I have been thinking about something like that for a couple of years. A parabolic taper on the shaft merging into a reverse parabolic taper( I don't know what else to call it) on the butt.

I am going to try it one of these days.
 
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