Does Micarta have a soft or hard hit?

Anthony_Beeler

Anthony_Beeler

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I am curious if Micarta has a soft or hard hit? Anyone have any experience with this material. Thanks!
 
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Anthony_Beeler said:
I am curious if Micarta has a soft or hard hit? Anyone have any experience with this material. Thanks!
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Hard hit. Probably the hardest of the normal ferrule materiales in common use. Machines good, easy to glue and easy to keep clean though. I prefer it over all other ferrule materials myself.

Dick
 
How about: it just plays better than anything!

I have a local guy that will put on the old school Micarta for $35. I've heard it is worth $100 plus, though.

If you have a chance to get some, I suggest you do it at whatever price. Just be careful whan machining it; it is toxic.

-ShaneS
 
It's an ausome material, hard hit, but nice natural feel & feedback. I often see guys with it on their older cues, and they sometimes believe that It is Ivory due to the yellow color, and act disapointed when I tell them what It looks like to me. Here the whole time I'm thinking they are lucky because It's actually easier for Me to find the ivory;) .

Greg C
 
rhncue said:
Hard hit. Probably the hardest of the normal ferrule materiales in common use. Machines good, easy to glue and easy to keep clean though. I prefer it over all other ferrule materials myself.

Dick
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Sorry fellows, I got mixed in the brain. Melamine is what I was talking about, not Micarta.

People keep bringing up the name Micarta. As far as I know, Micarta is still produced. Micarta is the trade name by G.E. or Westinghouse for phonelic. There are many different types of Micarta. There is canvas base, paper base, linen base and many others. The type that many cuemakers used to use and was populer is Asbestos based Micarta and it hasn't been made in about 30 or 35 years. I'm sure there's not as much left floating around as people seem to think. There is a material on the market that looks almost identical to asbestos base phonelic and some cue repair people are using it and claiming that it is yellow Micarta but it isn't.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
Sorry fellows, I got mixed in the brain. Melamine is what I was talking about, not Micarta.

People keep bringing up the name Micarta. As far as I know, Micarta is still produced. Micarta is the trade name by G.E. or Westinghouse for phonelic. There are many different types of Micarta. There is canvas base, paper base, linen base and many others. The type that many cuemakers used to use and was populer is Asbestos based Micarta and it hasn't been made in about 30 or 35 years. I'm sure there's not as much left floating around as people seem to think. There is a material on the market that looks almost identical to asbestos base phonelic and some cue repair people are using it and claiming that it is yellow Micarta but it isn't.

Dick
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Even the micarta sheets you get from Atlas aren't the same from last year's batch.
I just got these from one maker. They are not quite as hard as the old glass melamine but sound harder than LBM.
 

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Anthony_Beeler said:
I am curious if Micarta has a soft or hard hit? Anyone have any experience with this material. Thanks!
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Hard or soft is relative - I would describe it as softer than Ivory
but more firm than Ivorine3

at this point it is just an abstraction, as RHN pointed out
the realdeal yellow Micarta is virtually unobtainable...except to
some of us

Dale Pierce
 
Melamine

rhncue said:
Sorry fellows, I got mixed in the brain. Melamine is what I was talking about, not Micarta.

People keep bringing up the name Micarta. As far as I know, Micarta is still produced. Micarta is the trade name by G.E. or Westinghouse for phonelic. There are many different types of Micarta. There is canvas base, paper base, linen base and many others. The type that many cuemakers used to use and was populer is Asbestos based Micarta and it hasn't been made in about 30 or 35 years. I'm sure there's not as much left floating around as people seem to think. There is a material on the market that looks almost identical to asbestos base phonelic and some cue repair people are using it and claiming that it is yellow Micarta but it isn't.

Dick
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I agree with you Dick. Melamine is the best all around ferrule material available at this time in my opinion.
 
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