Hello,
before a couple of days I finished my first selfmade cue. Made as a onepiece cue with an old McDaniel shaft and the butt from the limb of a beech. It took me many patience to get the butt staying straight, and it won't stay straight if I put it into another climate, but this is clear and not my issue.
Length: 59"
Shaft length: 30"
Weight: 16,6 oz
Butt diameter: 31,0 mm on the last 10 inches
Tip diameter: 11,2 mm
Taper: conical
Ferrule: no ferrule, just a fiber plate
Tip: good, dense elkmaster
Colour of the butt: coloured with sood
Bumper: several layers of thick leather, screwed
Although I just wanted to experience, what are the limits in making a onepiece cue without lathe and a straight connection between shaft and butt, it came out pretty well and I decided to finish it. Usual water based acrylic lacquer, 5 layers.
Yesterday me and some guys from our billard club played a couple of hours with that funny cuestick, and most of them have been surprised, and also me. The balance of the cue is very natural. The hit and feedback is incredible, and it has a clear, homogenious sound. I'm really surprised. What we are mostly surprised is that it is very easily to play precisely and get defined position of the cueball.
Before I was used to playing cues with more than 19 oz, and my actual Mezz player is at 19,8 oz and pretty much balanced towards the buttend. This is what I feel comfortable with common cues.
But although this new very light cuestick is completely different in weight and balance point I feel also very comfortable. Playing precisely is very easy with it, also at snooker. I can get enough spin, but not extremely much as with my Mezz. But playing position is so easy and I feel if it does exactly what I want, and not more.
So my question is mainly about the weight: Does a light weight cue principally force the player to do much more work? And by this doing easier to play precisely because you work more actively and by this you use your work range in finer steps or easier because you don't have a mage cue that works by its own?
before a couple of days I finished my first selfmade cue. Made as a onepiece cue with an old McDaniel shaft and the butt from the limb of a beech. It took me many patience to get the butt staying straight, and it won't stay straight if I put it into another climate, but this is clear and not my issue.
Length: 59"
Shaft length: 30"
Weight: 16,6 oz
Butt diameter: 31,0 mm on the last 10 inches
Tip diameter: 11,2 mm
Taper: conical
Ferrule: no ferrule, just a fiber plate
Tip: good, dense elkmaster
Colour of the butt: coloured with sood
Bumper: several layers of thick leather, screwed
Although I just wanted to experience, what are the limits in making a onepiece cue without lathe and a straight connection between shaft and butt, it came out pretty well and I decided to finish it. Usual water based acrylic lacquer, 5 layers.
Yesterday me and some guys from our billard club played a couple of hours with that funny cuestick, and most of them have been surprised, and also me. The balance of the cue is very natural. The hit and feedback is incredible, and it has a clear, homogenious sound. I'm really surprised. What we are mostly surprised is that it is very easily to play precisely and get defined position of the cueball.
Before I was used to playing cues with more than 19 oz, and my actual Mezz player is at 19,8 oz and pretty much balanced towards the buttend. This is what I feel comfortable with common cues.
But although this new very light cuestick is completely different in weight and balance point I feel also very comfortable. Playing precisely is very easy with it, also at snooker. I can get enough spin, but not extremely much as with my Mezz. But playing position is so easy and I feel if it does exactly what I want, and not more.
So my question is mainly about the weight: Does a light weight cue principally force the player to do much more work? And by this doing easier to play precisely because you work more actively and by this you use your work range in finer steps or easier because you don't have a mage cue that works by its own?
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