cutting down a ferrule

[greyghost]

Some people feel that standing up as they stroke the break shot makes them break better. If they do this, and keep their bridge hand planted, you get the ol' "Captan Hook" style break. (Cue bent like a fishing pole with a big one on.) I've always felt that a horizontal shift of the hips is quite sufficient, and that jumping up like someone just goosed you serves very little purpose. Especially considering most of that movement is done AFTER you've hit the ball.

EXACTLY, not to mention most people I see doing the chicken head hop up shaft bending break have HORRIBLE TIMING, and CANT CONTROL THE ROCK. I and a few others were watching Lil' John break at the white diamonds tourney and people were talking about his so called BIG break, well his timing was super bad, never hit the ball on the apex of the weight shift, and he couldn't control the rock for anything, but hey his big jump up in the air made it look huge. IT'S A WASTE OF TIME, AND JUST A SHOW.

Grey Ghost

 

[bman43]

never ever ever ever seen this happen, never ever heard of anyone that happened to either, if its a well built cue I'd have to say thats a myth. Just the same as all the bar players thinking that breaking with your cue is going to ruin the shaft. That old Meucci sneaky was almost 20yrs old when I got it, the original owner is a strong breaker and so am I. The only cue I've ever broken while breaking (Norwela custom)had a highly figured birdseye forearm and a not so perfectly inserted pin and it snapped a few inches below the joint....but was a faulty cue either in construction or b/c of the highly figured birdseye. The first cue I ever built with Joel weinstock had a pink ivory piloted joint and i always broke with it...charlie bryant couldn't break the joint on that cue...like I said MYTH


Myth Buster,
Grey Ghost

ive seen several cues break from breaking with them.nice ones too.forearm just below the joint collar.also petes right at joint.i always tell people if u care about your cue dont break with it. ofcourse, there is always the ive been breaking with this cue for 20 years guys,and thats fine but that doesnt mean it will never break.ive repaired too many.i always put ivory ferrules on the cues i make and thats part of the reason.