Cue joint questions?

[drivermaker]

I've been playing with a Schon for a while now. I got a new Josey last spring that got "lost" three weeks after I got it when I checked it with an airline. Keith's making me another one and it should be ready in a month. I also own a predator, a couple schulers, a layani, a sherm, a scruggs sp, a pechauer, and a few others.

I don't use a predator primarily because I don't like the hit.

mike page
fargo

I'd really be interested in the specs and assessment of the Josey when you finally get it.

 

[Colin Colenso]

Colin out of curiosity, how can vibration in the tip effect the shot if vibration occurs after the hit, and the cueball is already long gone from the tip?

Hi Last Two,
The vibration is the after effect of what is happening on contact. It shows that forces are not being directed along the entire line of the cue. That a lesser weight of the cue is therefore affecting the cue ball. And also that the end of the shaft is deflecting to the side, moreso than on a solid non-vibrating hit.

The difference on what is happening at the contact interface is probably miniscule and undetectable by current photographic methods, but extremely small deviations in movement at the collision interface could make noticeable differences in the spin, squirt of the shot.

That's the best I can expalin it for now.

 

[RSB-Refugee]

I agree. But please note I haven't made any claims about what's better.

Fair enough, I think I just read into it, that you were saying, Predators were better. Sorry for the confusion.

Tracy