Dings and scratchs.....table?

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I remember my first cue ever got beat up pretty good while i was learning to play. It was a clumsy era of dropping it on the floor, baniging into the table, counter, light,etc.. Time has passed, I'm getting better at pool and getting nicer cues. I have learned to handle cues more carefully and am somewhat picky about having NO dings or scratches on my cues, especially the shaft. Though i am extremely careful with cues now there is one problem i have yet to overcome. When shooting, or breaking, I like to keep the cue very level, to the point that it slides along table rails. This is not a problem on many tables, such as Diamond which uses nice soft leather for the corners and such, but alot of the tables around here are are not so cue friendly with metal corners and metal running along the rails. So, careful as i may be, some tables will scratch or ding my cue around the joint area on my normal shot, or break shot. I have thought about just not going to places where i dont like the tables but that would eliminate 90% of options. Arrghhh!! What are your thoughts on this subject? When you shoot certain shots, is your cue so level that it touches the rails?
 
I like to break using a very level cue also but I do not have a problem touching the table. Once in a great while it happens, but not often. I would think that using a piece of cloth and laying it over the rail might help prevent dings but you would have to put up with crap from other players that see you with a break rag:grin-square:. I am also very careful with my cues so I would find away to stop the contact~~~~ crap or not.
 
i would just use a house cue to break with and where are you breaking from the bed ? or the rail
 
Most of the time i break in the box, one diamond over and near the head string. I do see the break an issue, and im ok useing a bar stick or something, but take for instance a regular shot like this one. If there is a big raised piece of metal on the corner and you want to use follow on the shot, for me i want the cue right down on the rail. Again, there are tables that will not hurt a cue when hugging the rail. There are a lot of old bar boxes that are tad scary though. I guess what i am really trying to say is i wish some of these places around here would upgrade there tables. Perhaps when money is flowing again.

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greenlight said:
I remember my first cue ever got beat up pretty good while i was learning to play. It was a clumsy era of dropping it on the floor, baniging into the table, counter, light,etc.. Time has passed, I'm getting better at pool and getting nicer cues. I have learned to handle cues more carefully and am somewhat picky about having NO dings or scratches on my cues, especially the shaft. Though i am extremely careful with cues now there is one problem i have yet to overcome. When shooting, or breaking, I like to keep the cue very level, to the point that it slides along table rails. This is not a problem on many tables, such as Diamond which uses nice soft leather for the corners and such, but alot of the tables around here are are not so cue friendly with metal corners and metal running along the rails. So, careful as i may be, some tables will scratch or ding my cue around the joint area on my normal shot, or break shot. I have thought about just not going to places where i dont like the tables but that would eliminate 90% of options. Arrghhh!! What are your thoughts on this subject? When you shoot certain shots, is your cue so level that it touches the rails?
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The problem you're having is not with the table, it's with your bridge hand. The lower your bridge hand is to the playing surface the more you have to lower the back of your cue to play follow english. Raise your bridge hand up a little more, then you'll have to raise up the back of your cue to keep from shooting over the top of the cue ball, which will stop your cue from scraping the table;)

Glen
 
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