Something is strange here as the density for titanium is about 4.5 and for brass about 8.5, so I would expect a factor of about two for the weight difference.
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I have measured it several times. I use a reasonably accurate weight that's meant to measure up to 25g. My wife calls it my "cocaine scale"
I use 6al4v Titanium, not pure titanium, that might explain the difference?
Well, I can imagine that one of them would have run 832.
And remember, most of those old-timers didn't know they were supposed to get their chin near their shaft.
But to be serious about deflection and the old-timers, some of them were aware of squirt and used shafts that were low deflection. I think "aim-and-pivot" developed as a way to compensate for ivory ferrules and such, since those ferrules put the pivot point close to the recommended 8-inch bridge length.
That's 6% aluminum and 4% vanadium, which changes the density by less than a percent from the 4.5 of pure titanium. Wikipedia says brass varies some in density according to the copper/zinc ratio but is not lower than 8.4.
we all learned the old way and just shot what works and still does. just didn't learn it from a book or the internet.
and some of us that played more upright dont have back issues, like these young guys are going to get with their grey hair.
and i dont believe anyone alive would be able to beat mosconi in his prime with his upright stance playing on different strange tables
as he did every day. even with his high deflection rambo or balabuska.
all of the pros and great players i knew or met never had i heard a word about having a low deflection shaft.
and some of us that played more upright dont have back issues, like these young guys are going to get with their grey hair.
and i dont believe anyone alive would be able to beat mosconi in his prime with his upright stance playing on different strange tables
as he did every day. even with his high deflection rambo or balabuska.
all of the pros and great players i knew or met never had i heard a word about having a low deflection shaft.
no one alive lol ok Mosconi came to york and got destroyed by a local player until he was warned that wasn’t physically in his best interest to win . I promise you like everyone mosconi lost plenty. he wasn’t a god
You’re just another old guy who refuses to believe technology can’t make anything better. You know the game was played without chalk at one time to.. and then someone invented it and put it on a tip and I’m sure old closed minded people like you stomped their feet and through a fit. Lol. All the pros you ever talked to never talked about low deflection BECAUSE THEY NEVER HEARD OF IT UNTIL PREDATOR DISCOVERED IT
how could they talk about something that no one knew existed smart guy 
I put a stainless steel ferrule on a guys break stick back in the 1980's, just to see how it performed. The deflection was more than a foot from head spot to foot spot. What an eye opener.
Yeah but I bet if you could master a perfectly hit center ball break it would be a monster break cue.
having all that mass at the end would do little as far increasing the speed/quality of your break shot. ANY deviation from center would also cause you to miss your aim point. probably badly.
Yep - assuming maximum tip offset for Tennesseejoe's shot, it indicates a pivot point about 4" from the tip.
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