That is a great story! Thanks for sharing it. You are lucky to have such a nice cue from a great craftsman.
Sure, but the house cue has very different specs. Usually bigger diameter, with very stiff tapers and cheap tips. The difference that makes, compared to the fact that it's spliced is like comparing an ant to an elephant.There is nothing more full splice than a house cue. When I got my first cue, a cocobolo Meucci plain jane in 1995 or so, I liked it way better than the house cues I've been using up until then
You would be wrong on that, as I know of at least 2 prominent custom cue makers that don't tenon the A-joint. One of them actually tried to talk me into adopting it, the other I discovered while repairing a cue.
I answered your question. You better read what you asked
Great start to another year of inane posts, quips, and other assorted bs.
Seriously tho, if you took ten cues with varying methods of construction/assembly and let people hit them i SERIOUSLY doubt 5% could tell how they were made based on the hit. Back in the day they already proved you can't tell a cue by the joint and now you got nimrods out there that can tell the hit by how the butt's made. WTF?? Happy New Year bro.............................Finally someone with cue experience. And enough knowledge to know has spoken. This site truly is a waste of time.
Great start to another year of inane posts, quips, and other assorted bs.
@Tennesseejoe, why did you not get John to do the whole cue?
Very possible. Most cues that the 'cue people' seem to rave about on here are not FS cues, some yes but many are not. The simple fact a cue is a FS does not mean its going to play/hit/feel better. Way too many other factors that add-up to determine the 'hit'.
Been buying/selling/using cues since about '79 bucko. I've owned just about every style of cue AND construction method. There are WAAAAY too many factors that determine the 'hit' of a cue to say that a fs is any better playing/feeling cue. What's a 'waste of time' is putting up with people that believe in 'feelings' with nothing to back it up. BTW, the best 'feeling'(whatever that fk that really means) cue i ever owned was a half-splice, steel-joint Richard Black with ivory ferrules. I've owned a few FS cues and none came close to this one. Had to sell it and still miss it.
You get sense/feel bs combined with ancient pool 'old wives tales' and this is where you get. IF, and its a BIG if, FS cues were so much better then makers would tool up and crank them out. There's just nothing to validate any of it. I have pretty good 'cue memory' and i can't recall a fs cue that stood out to me enough to make me go all fs in future buys. Most all of the faves were merry-widows(my favorite design) or half-splice cues. Look, i love the old-school technique and look of a nice fs cue but to say they 'play'(again, just wtf does that mean) better is just not provable.
The minute you think you know it all you are done learning & growing. “You don’t know what you don’t know”
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You have got this totally wrong. If you think coring is only done to avoid warping, you are wrong. How do you suggest building a ebony butt without coring? Coring is also done to achieve the right weigh and balance, pluss it lets you use a wider variation of woods, burls are a good example of woods that would be hard to use without coring.
