The irony is any cue that doesn't clink, thunk, snap, crackle, or pop, go ticky, ticky, ticky after contact hits solid. If it hits solid, it hits good. This is the bottom line, however, is it for you? You never know these things until you get it. If you don't like it, try change the tip, sometimes it's that easy. I could list every possible spec I could think of on a cue, and even make some up, but what it comes down to is if the customer likes the cue.
Is it hype to say a cue hits good or solid? No, because unless they make a real POS, it's going to hit solid. If a seller uses best hitting cue ever, hits like a truck, a ton of bricks, it's just terms that make hits solid, more robust.
I dry hit (no chalk) to make sure there are no noises, just like the tap test, I don't want to have an issue with noises.
As far as the best hitting cue ever, I own that cue, and its not for sale, so I don't use that term.
Really could you imagine a listing that went like this...
20 oz, 16.0 oz butt. Moment of intertia, off the YXZ axis.. bla bla bla...
4 oz shafts, 13 mm deflects as .. yada yada...
balance point with chalk, 18.375985347 from the butt
Butt has a 1.06875924541254 degree taper
Tip is 50 durometer cow hide from a 3 year old black angus held on with a micro adhesive with a shearing strength of yada yada...
Approximate weight when the air has 70% relative humidity add .015 oz
Shafts have a density of .676 g/cc, a 1290 / kg sq.mm modulus of elasticity
I'd call that some hype..
JV
Is it hype to say a cue hits good or solid? No, because unless they make a real POS, it's going to hit solid. If a seller uses best hitting cue ever, hits like a truck, a ton of bricks, it's just terms that make hits solid, more robust.
I dry hit (no chalk) to make sure there are no noises, just like the tap test, I don't want to have an issue with noises.
As far as the best hitting cue ever, I own that cue, and its not for sale, so I don't use that term.
Really could you imagine a listing that went like this...
20 oz, 16.0 oz butt. Moment of intertia, off the YXZ axis.. bla bla bla...
4 oz shafts, 13 mm deflects as .. yada yada...
balance point with chalk, 18.375985347 from the butt
Butt has a 1.06875924541254 degree taper
Tip is 50 durometer cow hide from a 3 year old black angus held on with a micro adhesive with a shearing strength of yada yada...
Approximate weight when the air has 70% relative humidity add .015 oz
Shafts have a density of .676 g/cc, a 1290 / kg sq.mm modulus of elasticity
I'd call that some hype..
JV