Do I need to fix my cue?

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jaime_lion

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So here is a stick I have had for a while. Do I need to fix the end of it? or is it just a cosmetic thing and I can play with it like this? I have had this stick for around 15 years. Got it when I played pool a little bit when I was younger and such.

Here is the picture.

Deleted the picture cause you guys say I need a new ferrule. Thanks for the info. When my billiards place opens back up I will look into getting it replaced. No idea if the do that. But I will check worst case scenario I get a new top portion of the cue or a whole cue from wal mart. Also I live in South Dakota. That is all I will say about where I live.

Thanks
 
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jaime_lion said:
So here is a stick I have had for a while. Do I need to fix the end of it? or is it just a cosmetic thing and I can play with it like this? I have had this stick for around 15 years. Got it when I played pool a little bit when I was younger and such.

Here is the picture.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VJuM69JjqSwB3bj8WX_RN11hfebhfIDH/view?usp=sharing

Thanks
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You need to quit playing with it and get the ferrule replaced.

The ferrule is cracked from top to bottom.
 
FERRULE REPLACEMENT....
Typical , easy to take care of....
Usually $$ 30.00 to $$ 50.00,
Depending on what cue tip you go with....
If its an inexpensive cue,
Go to ebay,
buy a replacement generic shaft for about $$ 50.00 , shipped,
JOERACKEM carries "players brand" shafts- most common joints too
I have bought a few-
Always consistently good
 
So is there a Pool Cue Repir person where you live. Someone who can replace Ferrel, and Tip?

May you should say your location, and a member who live in your town, or close can recomend someone.
 
Can you feel the crack. If not polish it out with fine sand paper. Under magnification it doesn't look like a crack. I bought a used cue on Ebay and it had marks on
one of the shafts ferrules and I thought it was cracked. I took it to Fort Worth Billiards and Albert polished it up like new.
 
sometimes I read these posts and think " Am I like one of these weirdos? posting on a forum?" that is all I will say about what I think
 
jaime_lion said:
But I will check worst case scenario I get a new top portion of the cue or a whole cue from wal mart. Also I live in South Dakota. That is all I will say about where I live.

Thanks
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No walmart cues, and you should learn about what the equipment terms are if you are interested in pool enough to join the forums. Calling the shaft "top portion of the cue" should be done by people that have only seen a pool table on TV.

I suggest getting the Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, well written and teaches you from the beginning.
 
hang-the-9 said:
No walmart cues, and you should learn about what the equipment terms are if you are interested in pool enough to join the forums. Calling the shaft "top portion of the cue" should be done by people that have only seen a pool table on TV.

I suggest getting the Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, well written and teaches you from the beginning.
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I don't see the point, and I have that book. Almost all "pool" books have ambiguous, regional terminology that is probably not worth a damn outside of the United States and even within the United States might be age dependent. Honestly, the only ones truly worth anything are the ones written on the history of billiards. The game is now so small that without the people who have the knowledge of such history, it all could be lost. I'd honestly would love a 1000+ page book on the pure history with technicality only when absolutely required. As for the other books, well, the ones with pictures are nice :-).

Common, but not all inclusive terminology of a pool stick:

Tip
Ferrule
Shaft
Joint Collar -> Pin -> Joint Collar
Butt (With optional inlay designs... the fancy $$$$ stuff)
Wrap/Grip (Optional, without grip typically called a "Sneaky Pete")
Bumper
Extension (Optional, usually requires the removal of the bumper)

To the OP: Please don't feel you need a book, the game is dying enough as it is so please stick around :-)
 
hang-the-9 said:
No walmart cues, and you should learn about what the equipment terms are if you are interested in pool enough to join the forums. Calling the shaft "top portion of the cue" should be done by people that have only seen a pool table on TV.

I suggest getting the Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, well written and teaches you from the beginning.
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Interesting. Why don't you teach me? That is why I am hear to learn about pool.

Just FYI I frequently quit hobbies for one reason or another. I recently did my first dart league. I went to one night of leagues then quit. For multiple reasons the biggest was they did not have steel tip darts. So I dont want to spend "tons" of money on something I might only do once.

How about you let me decide what cues I want to get, Esecially since I don't even know if I will like leagues or playing pool beyond doing it by myself whenever I feel like it.

Mods can we lock this thread because my question has been answered?
 
jaime_lion said:
Interesting. Why don't you teach me? That is why I am hear to learn about pool.

Just FYI I frequently quit hobbies for one reason or another. I recently did my first dart league. I went to one night of leagues then quit. For multiple reasons the biggest was they did not have steel tip darts. So I dont want to spend "tons" of money on something I might only do once.

How about you let me decide what cues I want to get, Esecially since I don't even know if I will like leagues or playing pool beyond doing it by myself whenever I feel like it.

Mods can we lock this thread because my question has been answered?
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Honestly, it's all about the shaft (the top piece is the shaft, the bottom is the butt).

The price will be between ~$150 -> $250.

Schmelke is my pick because you can e-mail them and tailor the stick a bit. Another person recently (I forget who) recommended a Players stick because it comes with a "HXT Low Deflection shaft", which looked good too. Honestly, at the price range, those 2 probably are your best choices.

You can play for a bit with the ferrule cracked and even a warped shaft. Then if you don't like billiards, then obviously..... But if you might stay with billiards, then like I mentioned before you'll have to roll the shaft and butt on a flat surface to see if they're warped. Humidity can kill a wooden shaft quickly in storage areas, like any other wood really. Just know, with all things even, I personally would rather shoot with a broken ferrule and a straight shaft than shoot with a warped shaft with a factory perfect ferrule.

Sad to say, nobody is going to really be able to teach you until you know what you like. If you're like me and want to approach a new problem/system with a good reference, then if you buy a stick, call/e-mail Schmelke and have them make you the lightest possible butt (wrap optional, although I don't use them). The lightest possible butt will allow the greatest swing of weight preferences. Actual physical weight bolts are inserted to the stick to add weight. In my Schmelke butt, which is 27" long (typically they're 29"), I can add 5 weight bolts. With no bolts it can weigh right under 14 ounces, with all bolts.... well I never tried, but an extremely safe guess would be 25 ounces (which Is crazy heavy and probably over the limit of certain rules for certain competition). The only catch with a Schmelke butt is that they use a self-tapping thread for the weight bolts. This is a problem if you will ever want to buy an extension as nobody makes extensions with threads that are self tapping (The only way I solved that problem was by using a 3D printer to make and adapter).

Also, house sticks are good too. The ONLY reason I actually bought a stick is that all the house sticks in my area just plain beat and none of the house sticks go down past 18oz anymore (they used to be commonly found in 15oz with steps of .5oz all the way up to 20oz). However, a perfectly straight, none beat house stick is still my stick of choice (but the portability of them is not exactly practical).
 
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jaime_lion said:
How about you let me decide what cues I want to get, Esecially since I don't even know if I will like leagues or playing pool beyond doing it by myself whenever I feel like it.
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How can you decide what you want to get if you don't know about cues? First you learn then decide. My point is that if you head to walmart to get a cue you will end up with a bad one. If you want a bad cue, then I guess you can decide to have one once you know the difference. If you want to be upset with people offering advice to keep you from getting crap that is also your decision to make. Don't know why people get upset when told they need to learn something in order to understand it.
 
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Cron said:
I don't see the point, and I have that book. Almost all "pool" books have ambiguous, regional terminology that is probably not worth a damn outside of the United States and even within the United States might be age dependent. Honestly, the only ones truly worth anything are the ones written on the history of billiards. The game is now so small that without the people who have the knowledge of such history, it all could be lost. I'd honestly would love a 1000+ page book on the pure history with technicality only when absolutely required. As for the other books, well, the ones with pictures are nice :-).

Common, but not all inclusive terminology of a pool stick:

Tip
Ferrule
Shaft
Joint Collar -> Pin -> Joint Collar
Butt (With optional inlay designs... the fancy $$$$ stuff)
Wrap/Grip (Optional, without grip typically called a "Sneaky Pete")
Bumper
Extension (Optional, usually requires the removal of the bumper)

To the OP: Please don't feel you need a book, the game is dying enough as it is so please stick around :-)
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And that book covers all those terms really well in the first few pages with nice illustrations.

As does a quick web search on what part of a cue are called and what they are used for.

I don't know anything in any book about pool that is based on region except maybe the games that are listed in it as what is most popular in the area. A cue is made of the same parts in any country, a table is also made up of the same parts in any country.
 
Cron said:
I don't see the point, and I have that book. Almost all "pool" books have ambiguous, regional terminology that is probably not worth a damn outside of the United States and even within the United States might be age dependent. Honestly, the only ones truly worth anything are the ones written on the history of billiards. The game is now so small that without the people who have the knowledge of such history, it all could be lost. I'd honestly would love a 1000+ page book on the pure history with technicality only when absolutely required. As for the other books, well, the ones with pictures are nice :-).

Common, but not all inclusive terminology of a pool stick:

Tip
Ferrule
Shaft
Joint Collar -> Pin -> Joint Collar
Butt (With optional inlay designs... the fancy $$$$ stuff)
Wrap/Grip (Optional, without grip typically called a "Sneaky Pete")
Bumper
Extension (Optional, usually requires the removal of the bumper)

To the OP: Please don't feel you need a book, the game is dying enough as it is so please stick around :-)
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Wait pool is dying? How come? There is a billards hall where I live but other than that all pool is in bars. is that part of the reason?

ideologist said:
If you're near Brown County, I know a guy who can replace it for you
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I live within an hour radius of the Wyoming border.

hang-the-9 said:
How can you decide what you want to get if you don't know about cues? First you learn then decide. My point is that if you head to walmart to get a cue you will end up with a bad one. If you want a bad cue, then I guess you can decide to have one once you know the difference. If you want to be upset with people offering advice to keep you from getting crap that is also your decision to make. Don't know why people get upset when told they need to learn something in order to understand it.
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Basically it was how you said it. You came off as a snob. If you would have said dont buy a walmart cue buy one of these. Then given me 5 different cue's in the "walmart" price range that would have helped more. Also why do I need a book when I can google terms. You could have linked to past threads on pool terms or websites and such. That would have helped way more then just telling me to not do stuff and buy a book.
 
jaime_lion said:
Basically it was how you said it. You came off as a snob. If you would have said dont buy a walmart cue buy one of these. Then given me 5 different cue's in the "walmart" price range that would have helped more. Also why do I need a book when I can google terms. You could have linked to past threads on pool terms or websites and such. That would have helped way more then just telling me to not do stuff and buy a book.
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Advice is not "telling you" to do something, it's advice, you can follow it or do something else. I'm not your dad making you clean your room, I am saying what I learned and how, note I said "I suggest". Sure you can look up anything online, but I really liked that book. If you ask what car to get and someone "suggests" a Toyota, that won't stop you from not listening to them and buy a Nissan right? Would you call the guy that said you should try a Toyota a snob? The smart thing to do would be to learn why one over the other instead of just saying "I can buy whatever I want, don't tell me to get a Toyota" Same thing about what the terms in the sport to use are. No-one is born knowing everything, but if you use the wrong term you are still using the wrong term and the only way to stop doing it would be to learn what the correct one is. Taking everything like a personal insult or being made fun of is a bad way to do things, if you don't know something, you don't know it. Someone pointing out that you don't know something and how to learn about it is not a bad thing, especially if you are interested in doing that something properly. Maybe telling someone they should read a book is an insult now LOL, who knew.
 
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Thunder Thighs said:
AZB doesn’t work that way. :nono:
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That is true, not till the thread is dragged down into the depths of hell, beaten for 10,000 years then tossed into a dump truck filled with poo to bring it back up.

I don't think I have seen any thread locked from commenting, and not many deleted.

As I always say, to post here bring a thick skin and a sense of humor or there will be lots of foot stomping and crying.

I wonder if anyone on here has gotten into an actual fight when they finally met? Even with people that I disagree with I would still be happy to meet them and more inclined to hug than punch. Well maybe not now, it would have to be an air hug from 10 feet away, but still.
 
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This is a fascinating thread. Almost like a parody on forums. :lol:

My guess is OP will "quit" forums and probably pool too, not that he ever started.
 
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