I don't think my new cue is for me
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Tip has a lot to do with feedback of feel. Start there as Joss's hit pretty darn good for the dough. I just got an Andy Gilbert Custom with two shafts and both shafts play different. One breaks like a son of a and the other plays like a dream. I think we have all bought a cue and not had it respond to us the way we did t it. Just my simpleman 2 cents. Sean
rackem said:It is ridiculous to tell someone to buy a custom cue when they don't even know what they like yet.
Put a moori on the Joss and work on developing a stroke. Don't expect the cue to work miracles.
Yup. I'd say try a Moori Medium or Soft, depending on what you like or had on your other cue, and continue to work at it...
How thick is the shaft, anyways? If it's 13.25mm, it may not hurt to turn it down to an even 13mm...if for nothing else, simply for comfort-purposes...
When I first bought my cocobolo Nitti, it came with a 13.25mm shaft with a Talisman medium tip. I was having similar issues for a couple days...and that's when I noticed just how fat that shaft was in comparison to my old cue (which was 12.75mm). So i took it down to 13mm and bam! Whether that actually changed anything other than my disposition toward the cue, I'm not sure...
But it may do the same for you.
Lol.
But yeah, change that tip and keep at it! And if it still feels too fat to you, take it down a bit to 13mm. No doubt, Joss makes a good cue...
jdelcue@emory.e said:Yup. I'd say try a Moori Medium or Soft, depending on what you like or had on your other cue, and continue to work at it...
How thick is the shaft, anyways? If it's 13.25mm, it may not hurt to turn it down to an even 13mm...if for nothing else, simply for comfort-purposes...
When I first bought my cocobolo Nitti, it came with a 13.25mm shaft with a Talisman medium tip. I was having similar issues for a couple days...and that's when I noticed just how fat that shaft was in comparison to my old cue (which was 12.75mm). So i took it down to 13mm and bam! Whether that actually changed anything other than my disposition toward the cue, I'm not sure...
But it may do the same for you.
Lol.
But yeah, change that tip and keep at it! And if it still feels too fat to you, take it down a bit to 13mm. No doubt, Joss makes a good cue...
I actually had my tip changed and he didn't do a very good job, the tip is actually smaller in diameter than the ferrule. Either way, I've heard every suggestion for a tip from Lepro, to sniper, to moori. What is the consensus?
Is the shaft thicker on the Joss then the McDermott? If it is I would take it to someone who works on cues and have them take down the shaft a little. Get them to measure it first to see where its at. If it is at a 13.50mm or so, have them bring it down to 13mm. I had the same problem. The shaft was too big and it was hard for me to get alot of action. I hope this helps.
Walker
Walker
Sorry but I don't want to sound mean here, but the logic here is totally flawed. You don't sell a cue because the tip or shaft is slightly larger than 13mm. Shafts can always be taken down in size. I would understand if the weight or balance was a problem because sometimes they can not be adjusted.poolplayer2093 said:
jdelcue@emory.e said:
...or an Elkmaster, or an Everest. I wouldn't do anything to the shaft (unless you just absolutely despise the taper) until I have either:
(A) tried a softer tip, or
(B) have a friend or acquaintance that knows how to move 'ol
whitey around try the cue out and see what he/she can do
with it.
What belmicah inferred about the LePro and Triangle being the same tip is correct. Go with something softer if you like to move the cue ball around a lot. It can be done with hard tips, but it takes a little more work.
Maniac
oceanweb said:Yeah...you're right. It's probably better to waste a few years playing with a Joss, Cuetec, Budweiser cue, etc..
that's too funny....I know guys that play with a Joss, McDermott, Viking, Cuetec, etc. (you know, the lowly production cues) that beat the living crap outta guys that play with customs that they had to wait YEARS for the cuemaker to make, and cost $K's. In fact, tonight, I watched a teammate playing with a production Predator whoop up on a guy with an entire arsenal (he shot with 3 different cues during a race to 5 in APA 8 ball league) of customs (one Southwest, one JossWest, and one Bender). Each of this guys misses or bad leaves HAD to be the cues fault. BTW, my teammate would beat this guy with my Joss too, or even my Cuetec (that I break with)....
sorry for the rant. I too have a Joss, and I don't have any trouble with draw on mine....mine is a 13mm shaft with a Talisman Med tip.
> Don't give up on the cue just yet,your stroke is trying to tell you something. What it's telling you is that maybe because the old cue was whippier than the new one that you thought you were really coming through the ball nice,but you weren't. You can't do the same things with the new cue with the same effort,so it is going to take more effort,or in another word,a better stroke to accomplish the same thing. Once you get used to coming through the ball with a little more speed or a sharper stroke,you'll be able to eventually do things you couldn't do before,and your game will go up as result. This was my experience with my Schon,after a couple years of playing with a Meucci. I was having to use what I thought was more english than usual to do the same things I was doing,when actually I wasn't gettting the spin because my stroke wasn't used to pushing that stiff of a cue. Tommy D.