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Wat would happen if you didn't use ferrules? What is the primary function of them? Do they keep the wood from splitting apart? Why ars some long and others short? I asked a preditor rep once and he that preditor would like to get rid of ferrules all together. Has anyone ever thought of making a stainlees steel ferrule. It would seem that more weight in this area would make a great breakcue without the huffy puffy force that most often leads to miscuing.
 
more front end weight makes the cue ball deflect more.

So as soon as you mis hit the cueball by 1/4 a tip and the cueball misses the entire rack due to deflection you would cut off the stainless ferrule.

I would say originally the purpose of the ferrule was to keep the shaft from spliting and to give a nice surface to glue the tip to. Id say the wood would absorb alot of the glue if it didn't have a ferrule.

Ian
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Ferrules

cue-healer said:
Wat would happen if you didn't use ferrules? What is the primary function of them? Do they keep the wood from splitting apart? Why ars some long and others short? I asked a preditor rep once and he that preditor would like to get rid of ferrules all together. Has anyone ever thought of making a stainlees steel ferrule. It would seem that more weight in this area would make a great breakcue without the huffy puffy force that most often leads to miscuing.
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The main purpose of a ferrule is to keep the shaft from splitting. It also helps to distribute the impact across more of the shaft end grain. The tip takes up most of the shock of impact. If the tip gets too thin you take the chance of damaging the ferrule.

The reason some are long and some are short is that the difference in length has an effect on how the cue hits. Shorter ferrules hit harder than longer ferrules.

A stainless steel ferrule would be a nightmare to machine and very heavy.
It would not make a better break shaft than other lighter material. Heavy cues to not make better break cues.

The reason you have not seen a stainless steel ferrule is that all the cuemakers that I know, know better.

Good cuemaking,
 
I've been playing with a ferruleless cue for 2 years now. I break with it as hard as I can, and it has held up fine. I put a fiber pad under the tip to minimize any lateral pressure on the end of the shaft, I don't know for sure if it helps, but it can't hurt.
I've made lots of cues with solid brass ferrules, but you wouldn't want one on your playing cue. Like others have said, deflection becomes an issue.
 
Ferrules also help you avoid sanding the 1st 1/2" of the shaft down from chalking. You ever notice that chalk ring on a ferrule?
 
CrownCityCorey said:
Ferrules also help you avoid sanding the 1st 1/2" of the shaft down from chalking. You ever notice that chalk ring on a ferrule?
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I thought only Earl and barroom bangers had those....
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stainless steel ferrule

cue-healer said:
Wat would happen if you didn't use ferrules? What is the primary function of them? Do they keep the wood from splitting apart? Why ars some long and others short? I asked a preditor rep once and he that preditor would like to get rid of ferrules all together. Has anyone ever thought of making a stainlees steel ferrule. It would seem that more weight in this area would make a great breakcue without the huffy puffy force that most often leads to miscuing.
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Cuetec made a jump/break cue with a stainless steel ferrule, I still have one. It is actually quite well made and performs well also. The tip that came with it was lousy so I replaced it with a phenolic and it has performed very well since. I now have a stinger but keep the cuetec as a back up.
Dan
 
The purpose for the ferrule is to protect the end of the shaft as stated. I found a stainless steel ferrule to be the worse hitting ferrule I have ever hit a ball with. It made a loud tink noise when hitting the cue ball. Made every shot sound like a mis-cue. It defelected the cue ball horribly. The only advantage I can give it is that it sounded like you were crunching the break shot really hard. That might give you a mental advantage of some sort. Use only center ball and it might be a okay break ferrule. The cue tech mentioned above must dampen the sound with their cue fiberglass type construction for anyone to like it.
 
I haven't noticed anytink wrong with mine. But now that I tink of it perhaps I should listen for a tink or a toink.
Dan
 
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