Cue weight and balance point effect on squirt / deflection

[kwoshunli]

Hello All

I have a custom cue made

weight: 18.5 oz

Shaft: Low deflect shaft (with industrial foam inside)

balance point: slightly at the back of the usual typical cue (my cue doesn't have metal joint colar, only plastic)

I'm planning to have a metal joint colar placed so the weight would be 19oz and the balance point will be somehwere nearer the center (my preference)

Question: does cue weight and balance point have significant effect on squirt / deflection?

Please enlighten me so I can make the decision as to what kind of metal joint I need to have. (1 inch, 3/4, 1/2).

Thanks in advance!:grin-square:

 

[AtLarge]

... Question: does cue weight and balance point have significant effect on squirt / deflection? ...

No. Conventional wisdom is that the overwhelmingly most significant factor in how much squirt a shaft/cue produces is the amount of shaft endmass.

 

[kwoshunli]

No. Conventional wisdom is that the overwhelmingly most significant factor in how much squirt a shaft/cue produces is the amount of shaft endmass.

ATLARGE,

thanks for your input. My personal cue weight preference has now changed into somewhere near the middle of the cue, so I guess I wills till have to have it change into a metal joint one.

I tried using a house cue, (poor quality), and i think i was more comfortable with the weight balance of that cue, hence i decided so.

Thanks