How does a cue play?

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I just received a trade offer for my favorite cue - a break cue. I'm torn.

I was breaking with a house cue the other day, and I couldn't sink a ball to save my life. With my break cue, I do MUCH better.

Maybe I was just having an off day, but it seems to me that the cue makes a HUGE difference. For instance, I can usually make the cue ball bounce into the air off of the apex ball with my break cue, but I could not make that happen with the house cue. It's like my break cue is a shotgun, and the house cue is a pistol - the same basic thing, but two totally different animals.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
The break is a brute force shot that can actually benefit meaningfully from exaggerated modifications (stiffness, tip hardness) that increase energy transfer, but don’t work as well for other shots.

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That would seem to agree with what I've experienced with the cue. I tried to use it as a playing cue last week, because I think it's super cool, and I had very mediocre results.

I also just traded it, incidentally. The offer was too good to refuse, but I'm hoping I find an even better replacement, and in any case, it's usually good to make friends happy, and man do they love that cue!
 
You post is interesting. Recently I got my hands on an old OB-1 shaft and paired it with a butt made for me by a guy here that has a 3/8 x 10 pin its solid wood. That combination plays better than anything I've ever played with. Who would have thought.

Buzzard said:
I have been looking at cue reviews and come across "This is a beautiful playing cue!" many times! I have invested lots of money in low deflection shafts and most of them are good to their word BUT all play a little differently. I am now playing with regular shafts and once learned do the same thing with some adjustments on my part. Once learned a house cue can play "beautifully"

Isn't it the player that "plays beautifully" and if knowledgeable about the fact that all cues need to be learned can make any cue work?

I think the big difference may be in the cue being a beautiful work of art, not how it "plays" I love cues and have more than I need but can adjust to any of them.

I am serious about what is being talked about when one says a cue plays great.

Thanks.
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Buzzard said:
I have been looking at cue reviews and come across "This is a beautiful playing cue!" many times! I have invested lots of money in low deflection shafts and most of them are good to their word BUT all play a little differently. I am now playing with regular shafts and once learned do the same thing with some adjustments on my part. Once learned a house cue can play "beautifully"

Isn't it the player that "plays beautifully" and if knowledgeable about the fact that all cues need to be learned can make any cue work?

I think the big difference may be in the cue being a beautiful work of art, not how it "plays" I love cues and have more than I need but can adjust to any of them.

I am serious about what is being talked about when one says a cue plays great.

Thanks.
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I have bought most of my cues because of the way they look but I have bought cues because I liked the way they "Played".

I liked two things about the cues I played with, first the way it feels when I hit the cue ball and second the most important thing is the cue ball hits where I was aiming.

What you want in a cue will probably be different and I recommend you buy a cue that feels good to you.

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The last time I played pool seriously was at Lambert's RBD in Baton Rouge when Flyboy put out the word that he would play anyone. Lambert was the nicest pool room owner I ever met and he and Fly are at the top of my list of the nicest people I ever met.

I'm not going to mention the name of my favorite cue but Lambert asked if he could hit some balls with it. After a minute he asked Fly to try the cue, then asked if they could buy the cue!

I’m selling all of my collection except my favorite cue which I will give to my son who doesn't play pool.
 
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