Handle Diameter

middleofnowhere said:
It certainly can't be a one size fits all. Players also have different types of grips as well. Players use from 1 to 4 fingers to grip their cue. I use my second and third fingers with my pinky and first finger hardly touching the cue at all. DiLiberto didn't wrap his fingers around the cue at all. He clinches it between his thumb and finger tips.

I remember an old time player named Gene Skinner telling me the grip, wrist and fingers was everything, it was the motor that makes everything else happen. He by the way is the man who Freddy the Beard credited in his book with him learning the game. When that feel and motion of the cue is right, the game can seems so easy.
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The key is using a grip that allows the weight of the cue to do the work and not the arm/grip to do the work.

Jaden
 
I just wish that we could get a standardization of joint diameters. Having a slight step going from the butt forearm to the shaft is one of my peeves.
 
garczar said:
Not as big as they used to be. A lot of older cues measured as much as 1.30" at the big end. Rarely see that anymore. Most are 1.25"-ish or less these days. Gilbert's and Josey's still run a little on the thick side unless you ask for smaller.
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Stroud used to build fat assed cues. I tend to steer the ball with those. Tads are thin. I can’t recall the numbers. 1.2XX” is what I like
 
Jaden said:
Typically there is a .42 degree taper and a joint size of .84 and a butt size of 1.25; however, as has been stated, it can vary, and of course, if the butt is longer than 29 inches, then either the taper will differ or the diameter of the butt cap will differ. Also, if it is a straight taper, the size of the handle will vary depending on how long the forearm and butt are, so IOW, WHERE the handle is at will vary how large the diameter of it is.

Jaden
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Unless it a parabolic tapered cue, then all the numbers change 😉

Making AZB more complicated one post at a time,
Fatboy 😄😄😄
 
Fatboy said:
Unless it a parabolic tapered cue, then all the numbers change 😉

Making AZB more complicated one post at a time,
Fatboy 😄😄😄
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Or compound or dual taper.
Old school was some .840 to 1.275 with one angle.
Then it went down to 1.250.
I don't know if Tad started the dual angle wherein the handle has a more narrow angle than the forearm.
Pechauer is the opposite. The handle has a steeper angle than the forearm.
 
I’ve experimented with cradling the cue with my fingers but keeping my thumb on the same side as my fingers. Anyone ever tried this?

EDIT to make this post more relevant to this thread: the Adam cue I use daily does not fit all the way in my cheap cue case butt-end down.
 
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Fatboy said:
I almost dropped my cue…..
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I tried it with the MOAD and I followed the cue ball into the pocket four times in a row. I had never done that before. But I also found I’d need to work on this “grip” with higher cue speeds since I had less success juicing it.
 
To make a change/permanent such as your grip.... it usually takes about 3 mths to incorporate and no longer think about it.
 
Jaden said:
The key is using a grip that allows the weight of the cue to do the work and not the arm/grip to do the work.

Jaden
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IN 1991 Mike Zuglan taught me his most basic tenant for pool cue mechanics -he said " Let the stick do the work". He was soooo right! About that time Mike Zuglan was a top 5 in the U.S. in 14.1 and top 20 in rotation games.
 
mikemosconi said:
IN 1991 Mike Zuglan taught me his most basic tenant for pool cue mechanics -he said " Let the stick do the work". He was soooo right! About that time Mike Zuglan was a top 5 in the U.S. in 14.1 and top 20 in rotation games.
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Stroke slip?
 
Not a slip stroke per se, but that, of course, would work too. Mike really meant that the grip hand must be fully relaxed throughout the stroke and that the stroke should flow to a natural completion point- unhindered by grip pressure at any time.
 
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