finding the right shaft and tip combination

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lorider

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i will be the first to admit that feel or hit is subjective. what works for one person may not work for another. try as i might, i just dont like an ld shaft.

i have a predator with a 314/2, a mcdermott with an i2 and another mcdermott with a g core. i just dont play my best with any of those cues.i went thriugh 4 tips on the predator before i found the hit was most tolerable with a tiger emerald on it. never bothered to change the tips on the 2 mc dermotts.

my main player now is a phillipi with a standard maple shaft. i changed the tip on it 3 times until i settled on a moori medium.

just for the heck of it i left my phillipi at home this afternoon and took my g core mcdermott to scotch doubles league. i shot lousy. i left there and went to my double jeapordy league to play. my girlfriend plays that league with me and it just so happened she brought her son with her who had pulled my old viking outa the closet to play with. i let him play with it at home but he brought to practice on the 9 footers while she and i played league.

the viking was my main player 8 years ago until i got a meucci gambler. i then put a buffalo tip on it and used it as a breaker for 3 or 4 years. never shot with it with the buffalo tip on it, just for breaking.

i told him to give me the viking and take the mcdermott cause i was not shooting worth a darn with it. i will be damn if i didnt shoot better with that viking than i have shot in a long time.

i have always preferred med to soft tips in a dime shape with a lot of leather on them. the biffalo tip was flat and so short that i did not want to shape it for fear of scratching the ferule.

i just dont understand it. i am going to continue shooting with this viking to see if tonight was a fluke or if this heavy cue with a flat hard tip is indeed the best combination for me.

if it is that high dollar custom is going into the closet in its place
 
After screwing around with ld shafts and kbss tips I've come to find out that a solid maple shaft with either a good milk dud or triangle tip is what trips my trigger!
 
jgobigred said:
After screwing around with ld shafts and kbss tips I've come to find out that a solid maple shaft with either a good milk dud or triangle tip is what trips my trigger!
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i know ld shafts are out of the question for me. i just dont like any of the 3 i have.

maybe it is too soon to tell. it may have been one of those nights that the stars aligned and i had a great night:smile:

i dont have a scale so i dont know what any of my cues weigh. all i do know is that the viking feels a lil heavier and it just felt right in my hands.

my 9 ball game has been sucking this session at 40%. i am at 79 % in 8 ball. i am a 4 in 9 ball and a 5 in 8 ball. i faced a 6 tonight who i have faced several times. he usually wins and when i win it is not by much. i beat him quite easily tonight. he only missed 2 shots the entire match.

i won with him needing 15 points. i got good position most of the time and made great shots when left a lil hard. the best game i have played in a while. gonna stay with this combo a while and see what happens. hard to belive i have had it this long and never shot with this tip on it before. just broke with it.

i shot ok with it with whatever tip came on it but nothing like tonight with that buffalo tip on it.
 
lorider said:
my main player now is a phillipi with a standard maple shaft. i changed the tip on it 3 times until i settled on a moori medium.
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the viking was my main player 8 years ago until i got a meucci gambler. i then put a buffalo tip on it and used it as a breaker for 3 or 4 years. never shot with it with the buffalo tip on it, just for breaking.

i told him to give me the viking and take the mcdermott cause i was not shooting worth a darn with it. i will be damn if i didnt shoot better with that viking than i have shot in a long time.

i have always preferred med to soft tips in a dime shape with a lot of leather on them. the biffalo tip was flat and so short that i did not want to shape it for fear of scratching the ferule.
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The thinness of the tip effectively makes it feel harder. Perhaps your game has progressed to the point you would play better with harder tips.

The flatness of the tip reduces the relationship between spin and shaft offset on the CB, deadening the spin transfer. This might imply you want a nickle radius on your tip.
 
MitchAlsup said:
The flatness of the tip reduces the relationship between spin and shaft offset on the CB, deadening the spin transfer. This might imply you want a nickle radius on your tip.
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FYI, if you shift the center of the shafts the same distance, a dime curve contacts the CB about 15% farther from center than a nickel curve does. That's about 1/32" difference for a 1/4" offset, probably smaller than the normal error range for tip placement.

So I imagine the difference is too small to really matter, but it wouldn't matter to me anyway because I aim to hit a specific spot on the CB with a specific part of the tip. How far the shaft's center moves is irrelevant to me.

pj
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You could go on forever searching for the perfect combination, but never really learn the feel of one cue. So my thoughts would be to pick one, and stick with it.
 
Easiest answer ever:

A tip must feel IMMEDIATLEY good if you hit with it- it won t be better with the time!
If it feels bad...get the next one.

And the important word is "Y-O-U"<---- not what other guys are thinking!
 
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