Ebony on Ebony Cue

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pocketsplitter

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Hoping this knowledgeable crowd could clear something up for me:

I've recently come across some good players swearing by their ebony into ebony cues. Additionally, I remember reading a post on the Main Forum some months ago about Ko Pin Yi's father telling him to get an ebony into ebony specifically due to the weight of the wood. I'm confused by this, why is it better to have a, say, 20 oz. ebony into ebony cue versus a 20 oz. any other wood cue? Are there other benefits besides any potential weight/balance benefits?
 
pocketsplitter said:
Hoping this knowledgeable crowd could clear something up for me:

I've recently come across some good players swearing by their ebony into ebony cues. Additionally, I remember reading a post on the Main Forum some months ago about Ko Pin Yi's father telling him to get an ebony into ebony specifically due to the weight of the wood. I'm confused by this, why is it better to have a, say, 20 oz. ebony into ebony cue versus a 20 oz. any other wood cue? Are there other benefits besides any potential weight/balance benefits?
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Allot or most cuemakers are coring the forearm with either maple or purple heart .
They control weight , balance and warping that way

Some cue makers do not core their cues.
Where a ebony cue will not have weights and a maple will be weighted .
 
Ebony is just a heavy and dense wood. The more ebony, the more weight.

I have had ebony cues that played great and I have had ebony cues that played dead. I think the ebony does not have much to do with it either way and the shaft has everything to do with how a cue plays.
 
Nothing to back this up but being it's a denser wood and does not need weights like other cues may, seems it may actually give you better ( or at least different ) feedback on the hits. I am an Ebony cue guy and have always thought they hit different ( to my liking ) but could never quite put it into exact words.
 
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