Foward weighted cue ?
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When your tallking about less forward weight effecting deflection, it is in the tip end of the shaft. Predator hollows out about 8 inches of the tip end of the shaft & fills it with balsa wood & uses light weight ferrules. All cues have a slightly difference balance point. The ealier poster apparently likes his foward. I like my a little to the rear. That's about feel & perhaps persception of hit. A regular rearward balanced point cue will still cause the cue ball to squirt when hitting off center with english. The balance point does not directly effect the deflection unless it is caused by the tip area being light. Hope this helps.
you weren't by any chance playing with a painted fiberglass cue were you?...
I can't find the video now, but there was a youtube video of a guy using a small pair of vise grips, starting at the joint and moving toward the tip each shot proving that as the weight/mass moved closer to the tip, the deflection increased. That would seem to indicate that forward weighting/balance has some impact on deflection characteristics of the cue.
If so it's not so much that you'd notice...or miss. You're just not used to the cue. House cues are built with a stiff taper.
Forward weighting applies mostly to the butt not the shaft. A forward weighted butt would not affect deflection.
If you add the weight to the tip of the shaft............ well you will get deflection.
Kim
I saw that video i thought the guy was crazy but after watching the whole thing it made alot of sense