How to install a tip on a butt and at the same time be sure that no one would note

Pidge said:
Like a snooker cue?
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The one I got IS a snooker cue.
But the chamfer was around long before McDermott existed...
.....I've had a couple from the 1920s.
I hate the chamfer.....I had Hunt & O'Byrne make make a snooker cue with a round butt.
...might have been the first one they made with no chamfer.
 
pt109 said:
The one I got IS a snooker cue.
But the chamfer was around long before McDermott existed...
.....I've had a couple from the 1920s.
I hate the chamfer.....I had Hunt & O'Byrne make make a snooker cue with a round butt.
...might have been the first one they made with no chamfer.
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I friggin' love the chamfer! Been looking for a pool cue with one for a while now. For years I thought it was for shooting a CB touching the rail so you could get your fingers wrapped around the butt and the rail didn't get in the way. Apparently not.

I like holding the cue in the same position every time so I hit the CB with the same section of the tip each time. If I'm hitting draw I'm hitting it with this part of the tip, right hand side this side etc. I find it makes it easier and more natural to release the little and ring fingers from the cue when the chamfer is facing the ground. I think I may have OCD though ;)
 
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PT, I remember them well as I was born on the Scottish Higlands. My relatives picked rocks for a living.

That would be Mike Hunt and Sparky O'Byrne yer referring to. I will have to relate the story of how Mike and Sparky got their names at some point in the future. They were brothers from different Mothers. I believe that they were distant cousins of Clan MacDonald who got their start in the beef business.
Scottish cows are funny looking beasts they are.

I was from the Clan of Stuart but that BTCH Mary would have nothing to do with us common Highland Rock pickers.

They were the lucky ones that got out of the rock business and into building pool cues.

They actually found a slate quarry one day and figured that now that they have slate, they will have to figure out a way to use it. Hence, the cue business started. Thats just the short of it.
 
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Pidge said:
I friggin' love the chamfer! Been looking for a pool cue with one for a while now. For years I thought it was for shooting a CB touching the rail so you could get your fingers wrapped around the butt and the rail didn't get in the way. Apparently not.

I like holding the cue in the same position every time so I hit the CB with the same section of the tip each time. If I'm hitting draw I'm hitting it with this part of the tip, right hand side this side etc. I find it makes it easier and more natural to release the little and ring fingers from the cue when the chamfer is facing the ground. I think I may have OCD though ;)
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I can understand the chamfer on an ash cue, because the shaft flexes differently if the
arrows are up or side-ways.
But maple, which I use for all games, flexes the same any way you hold it, as long as the
shaft is round.
My favorite snooker cue was 29mm where I usually held it, but swelled to 33mm about
where a chamfer would start....every player who hit with it said it was a powerful cue
with a soft hit. An engineer told me that the swell on the butt's end absorbed the vibrations
Thereby giving it a soft hit. Chamfered cues hit harder than I like.

And if you really think about it, Pidge, the most perfect cue would be perfectly round.
 
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