Good playing aluminum cue?

Fatboy said:
I forgot about them, until just now you mentioned them, when i was around 12 or 13 I remember the red ones and blue ones. they were for sale at the county fair. they were spring loaded things so you colud use them like a regular cue or(this is where it gets good...) you could turn the ferel a half turn and it would release there was a 6" long stem that went into the shaft that was spring loaded so when you just tapped the CB the spring would let go and the tip would be pushed out by the spring and "enhance" the power of the shot.


Sorry for the bad description but i'm real busy right now, and that was along time ago-no i didnt get one.
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That must have been Aluma-Cue 2.0.

I rember from prolly before you were born, one
that had a spring loaded shaft you could push back into
the butt aprox 6 inches. Sorta like cocking a BB gun.
There was a button you pushed to fire it like a switchblade -
or just leave it 'solid' and play like a house cue.

No, really - you couldn't make this up. Jay probably remembers
them.

Dale
 
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Thats funny. I remember when I was a kid in school I would doodle sketches of cues, table layouts, etc.

One idea I came up with was a spring loaded cue that I made sketches of. It had an adjustment to vary how much speed you got on the cue ball. I had the speed scale in table lengths, instead of an arbitrary low, med, high. I had no idea this product already existed. I'd love to here from those who used one how well it worked, or did not work.

What is that saying... "there are no original ideas"
 
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pdcue said:
That must have been Aluma-Cue 2.0.

I rember from prolly before you were born, one
that had a spring loaded shaft you could push back into
the butt aprox 6 inches. Sorta like cocking a BB gun.
There was a buton you pushed to fire it like a switchblade -
or just leave it 'solid' and play like a house cue.

No, really - you couldn't make this up. Jay probably remembers
them.

Dale
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So even I could have a good stroke??
 
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I wouldn't mind seeing an aluminum tip on breaking cues. Hollow core, parabolic shape and unlike the phenolic resin tips you could glue up a few layers of pig skin to eliminate the miscues associated with the phenolic ones. Hey then you could even gas charge them.
 
The way of the future

Maybe people are getting bored with technologically advanced shafts and are now looking into this.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/09/16/laserguided-pool-cue.html

I think there is a way to produce a metal cue. I am not so sure it would have a desirable hit, but who knows? Take a look at the predator BK2 and the Big Beulah from Lucasi. They have graphite shafts like you see in golf clubs. Make no mistake, the pool industry is taking a crack at some new and innovative ideas by transcending some of the same product features you see in golf.

I personally will stay with my traditional, 4 pt cue.
 
I was talking to this guy the other day and he said he wanted to shoot some. I told him to come over and we would play. He told me he had his own cue and was pretty good. He shows up at my house with a one piece purple aluminum cue. I almost puked. so we played and played and I won and won. It was fun.

I let him try mine and he couldn't believe how solid and nice a wood cue could play.
 
I am going to try and contact Eddie Wheat and see if he can make me a Custom Fitted Aluminum cue...I will keep you all posted:grin:
 
Yes, but never say never.

I own an aluminum cue and, yes, it is crap.

Engineered materials generally have more consistancy than natural materials. No one can say with certainty that some engineered material will never replace wood shafts. Laminated shafts are already a slight move in this direction.

Today's innovation could be tomorrow's tradition. In pool we already have many examples. Wood tables were replaced by slate, cues sticks were once plyed with the "fat" end, cue sticks used to not have leather tips, and ivory balls were replaced by synthetic materials. An ivory set would be very collectable for its historical value, but I would not want to play with ivory balls today.

One day they may be able to make a "synthetic wood," a cellulose or petroleum-based material that has the same density and modulus of elasticity as wood, but no grain for warpage.
 
PoolBum said:
Will you be wanting a bike frame made out of birdseye maple next?
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Id rather have it made out of Cocobolo, BEM, Ebony with Ivory wheels:D
 
I had two Aluminum cues that I bought new back in the late 60's when I first took up the game. At the time we thought they were hot stuff, especially when you had to roll a half dozen wallabushkas at the local hall just to find something reasonably straight. One was a British made snooker cue, and one was a True-Cue, made right here in the Steel City (see attached image). Kept them stored away for almost 40 years. Guess what-no warping in all that time! Took them out when I returned to the game in 2005, and played with them for almost a year before I decided to spring for a decent cue. They were OK if you didn't know any better. Squirt was horrible, probably because of the lack of shaft flex combined with the concentration of weight at the tip end.
I got laid off before Christmas, and wife started hinting that I had too many cues, so guess which ones I chose to sell? I always thought it would have made a good hustler cue. After all, who could take you serious if you pulled out your shiny aluminum cue?

Bill
 

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I agree

There is no absolute reason that shafts haven't been made out of other materials other than tradition and R&D costs. Some of the spliced shafts and the cuetec reinforced shafts with outer wood are major steps towards this in my opinion. I believe the glue has more to do with how some of the spliced shafts play than the grain now.

Hu

Shaft said:
I own an aluminum cue and, yes, it is crap.

Engineered materials generally have more consistancy than natural materials. No one can say with certainty that some engineered material will never replace wood shafts. Laminated shafts are already a slight move in this direction.

Today's innovation could be tomorrow's tradition. In pool we already have many examples. Wood tables were replaced by slate, cues sticks were once plyed with the "fat" end, cue sticks used to not have leather tips, and ivory balls were replaced by synthetic materials. An ivory set would be very collectable for its historical value, but I would not want to play with ivory balls today.

One day they may be able to make a "synthetic wood," a cellulose or petroleum-based material that has the same density and modulus of elasticity as wood, but no grain for warpage.
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Ok, that ad just sold me on a aluminum cue...I want that Smooth stroking finish, raplaceable screw in tip assemblies, and rifle straight- resists abuse just sold me.....




billyjack said:
I had two Aluminum cues that I bought new back in the late 60's when I first took up the game. At the time we thought they were hot stuff, especially when you had to roll a half dozen wallabushkas at the local hall just to find something reasonably straight. One was a British made snooker cue, and one was a True-Cue, made right here in the Steel City (see attached image). Kept them stored away for almost 40 years. Guess what-no warping in all that time! Took them out when I returned to the game in 2005, and played with them for almost a year before I decided to spring for a decent cue. They were OK if you didn't know any better. Squirt was horrible, probably because of the lack of shaft flex combined with the concentration of weight at the tip end.
I got laid off before Christmas, and wife started hinting that I had too many cues, so guess which ones I chose to sell? I always thought it would have made a good hustler cue. After all, who could take you serious if you pulled out your shiny aluminum cue?

Bill
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One other small problem for those of us that live in the North. Leave that puppy in your car all day when it's January single-digit weather and it takes forever to warm up once you get to the hall! If I ever come across another maybe I'll try something- bore out all the steel and threads at the tip end, fit a short maple dowel and glue the tip right to the wood like an uncapped ferrule. Hu's right-you could probably engineer a measured amount of flex, by controlling the alloy and wall thickness. The question is-would anybody care?
Bill
 
What?

I cant believe this post if it was not origin from such a respected member of the billiard community. Jeez Corey. IMO the aluminum cue is cheap and ugly from the get go, is cold and unresponsive, and also makes a sound that will generate snickers and sneers in any american pr.
 
Aluminum cues might work if they gave them more flexible shafts and actually spent time engineering a good core for the butts that fit snugly with the outer aluminum layer. Sadly, a 20 dollar aluminum cue is not going to hit as well as your Meucci. Then again, the 20 dollar aluminum cue hits about as well as the 20 dollar wood cue in a lot of cases.
 
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