How can I make my cue heavier? It already has the longest hardened steel bolt

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So I have an Ed Young cue that weights 18.9 oz in total. thats with a shaft and the weight bolt.

This bolt is as long as it can be in respect to the threading. Its a dark hardened steel bolt. I would like to make the cue weigh 19.5 oz

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Maybe use a weight glove like Earl......

The balance of the cue would not change but the weight would be heavier.
 
Take it to a quality cue repairman and have him change the weight bolt to a larger diameter bolt.
 
So I have an Ed Young cue that weights 18.9 oz in total. thats with a shaft and the weight bolt.

This bolt is as long as it can be in respect to the threading. Its a dark hardened steel bolt. I would like to make the cue weigh 19.5 oz

Does anyone have any ideas?

those rubber wraps that you roll over your cue add a little weight. maybe you could tweak that idea a little
 
Brass is about 5% heavier than steel. A brass weight bolt might get you close if you can find or make one.
 
Brass is about 5% heavier than steel. A brass weight bolt might get you close if you can find or make one.

The OP wants to add 0.6 oz. Changing from a steel pin to a brass pin of the same type will probably add only one or two tenths of an ounce.

As a player who has fiddled around quite a bit with cues' weights, I'll list some alternatives for increasing a cue's weight:

• Change to a heavier shaft.
• Add weight to the existing shaft (e.g., install metal above the hole for the joint pin).
• Change to a heavier joint pin or combination of joint pin and brass shaft insert.
• Change to a heavier joint collar.
• Add weight below the joint pin (e.g., install metal, or core the forearm with a heavier wood).
• If it is a wrapped cue, add weight under the wrap (e.g., install metal in some fashion).
• Replace the handle with one that is heavier.
• If the current weight bolt is lighter than steel, change to a heavier bolt.
• Lengthen the current weight-bolt hole and use a longer weight bolt of the same type.
• Change to a larger-diameter weight bolt.
• Change to a weight bolt that is both longer and of larger diameter.
• Do some combination of these alternatives.

Note that some of these alternatives would be expensive (perhaps unwarrantedly so) and/or affect the cue's balance (which might be good or bad).

[And some cue makers and cue repairmen probably would not do some of these alterations.]

Edit: And I note that the OP was asking about an Ed Young cue, which may be quite valuable. Some of the things on my list could hurt the value of the cue.
 
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Try a small amount of tungsten carbide dust mixed in epoxy. Have a repairman put some in front of the weight bolt.
 
Adding .6 oz will not change the balance point enough to where I can truely notice it. My issue comes from playing my a sw for a few years and nearly all sw are heavier then 19.5

Since its an ed young I do not want to change anything on the cue. Im honestly afraid to tap a larger diameter but seems like the only good option.

Im interested in the tungsten idea
 
Add some lead shot into the bumper.

I might suggest an 1" longer shaft too.

Or you could drill out the bottom of the weight bolt and add some tungsten or lead.
 
Remove the weight bolt and if it's a standard 3/8 x 16, you might be able to add one or more internal weight bolts from Unique: http://www.uniqueinc.com/weight_bolts. The advantage to internal weight bolts is that you can position them inside the cue to adjust the balance.

Careful in drilling holes on SW or maybe even DPK.
Their "buttsleeve" might not be a sleeve at all. It might be a threaded piece of wood to the bottom of the handle .
I have an x-ray of a SW , it does not show tenon from the handle to the buttsleeve.
 
Careful in drilling holes on SW or maybe even DPK.
Their "buttsleeve" might not be a sleeve at all. It might be a threaded piece of wood to the bottom of the handle .
I have an x-ray of a SW , it does not show tenon from the handle to the buttsleeve.

It sounds like he has a standard 3/8 x 16 weight bolt, 3" long weighing 1.2 oz. No modification to the cue is necessary. All he needs to do is remove the weight bolt, install the headless weight bolts from Unique (three 0.5 in. bolts would add 0.6 oz) then reinstall the original weight bolt. This will work only if the hole was originally threaded to a depth of at least 4.5 in., this would need to be verified before proceeding.
 
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