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Jonbouy

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Has anyone tried Snapshot Carbide Tungsten ferrules on their cues? They look awful spiffy to me and I wonder what the effects are.
 
Jonbouy said:
Has anyone tried Snapshot Carbide Tungsten ferrules on their cues? They look awful spiffy to me and I wonder what the effects are.
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Tungsten is one of the heaviest elements.....pr baby work well for odd trick shots I’d figure via excess squirt....if it’s thin enough to be light I’d say it would be prone to cracking as it’s a highly rigid crystallized metal


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They were discussed here in the forum. Do a search. I believe it was in the cue maker forum.

Basically it ended up with "A solution looking for a problem".

But they were discussed before he furthered their development, specifically lightening them up a bit. I have seen no discussions here on them in their most recent form.

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Pure tungsten is brittle but alloys are strong as all get out. I'd figure they'd be too heavy for a playing cue. Maybe a j/b or a masse cue.
 
I spoke to the guy at the expo a couple of years ago. He had me hold one of those ferrules in one hand and a regular ferrule in the other. It was surprising how much lighter his ferrules are.

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Haven't tried these specific ones. All the metal ferrules I've tried on maple cues tend to have a very harsh hit. Even snooker cues made out of maple, I prefer with fiber ferrules rather than metal. Ash cues have a more soft, subdued hit anyway, so the traditional brass ferrules balance them out nicely (IMO).

I've tried a pool cue with some sort of "steel" ferrule and it was awful. Large deflection, very hard hit and weird playing characteristics. Some may enjoy such a hit, but I don't. For me to like a metal ferrule, it had better be VERY thin and VERY short, I mean no longer than the tip!
 
greyghost said:
Tungsten is one of the heaviest elements.....pr baby work well for odd trick shots I’d figure via excess squirt....if it’s thin enough to be light I’d say it would be prone to cracking as it’s a highly rigid crystallized metal
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Agree with this. I would more look at tungsten as a metal for a powder if you had to adjust weight in a cue, maybe secure an open buttplate in a light cue, but not so much in a ferrule. Let us know the results.

All the best,
WW
 
WildWing said:
Agree with this. I would more look at tungsten as a metal for a powder if you had to adjust weight in a cue, maybe secure an open buttplate in a light cue, but not so much in a ferrule. Let us know the results.



All the best,

WW
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You can get straight tungsten rod stock for that for say a masse cue and it does work well. I experimented a bit with the idea in the past


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