Location of shaft marker...?

[Peer]

I think it was Bob Jewett who suggested putting a marker stripe on the ferrule (the same way Meucci do with their red/black dot shaft) to keep the cue play more consistent -- I was wondering if there's a way to find where this stripe should be placed, i.e. if it's possible to read the wood-grain of the shaft, or if it's all just arbitrary?

-- peer

 

[8-ball bernie]

forget it, don't go thru the trouble of being distracted by turning your cue for shots, instead go to www.ob-1.com and check out the ob-1 shaft.

 

[8-ball bernie]

Correction

make that obcues.com

 

[renard]

Great link...beam me up Scotty!!!

 

[Snapshot9]

Why?

I have seen guys that do this, but Why? Just make sure you have a good
shaft made from good wood, and keep your tip in good shape. Most guys doing this was because their tips were not right, and they had no tools availaible to put it right.

 

[renard]

I read something where the grain in all shafts are stiffer in certain directions of the 360 degree radial. It's simply a way to keep the squirt and deflection at more of a constant.

I did it once but didn't see much differance. I guess it depends entirely on the shaft.

 

[Tommy-D]

> I saw a link a good while ago for a company that specialized in taking your shaft,using some kind of gauge to test the stiffness,and marking it according to your specs using a small round abalone inlay,so it can be seen from all angles. I'll do a better search for it later,I spent about 15 minutes just now looking for it with no luck,but haven't used all my resources yet. Tommy D.

 

[bruin70]

I think it was Bob Jewett who suggested putting a marker stripe on the ferrule (the same way Meucci do with their red/black dot shaft) to keep the cue play more consistent -- I was wondering if there's a way to find where this stripe should be placed, i.e. if it's possible to read the wood-grain of the shaft, or if it's all just arbitrary?

-- peer

take a look at your shaft.

find the grain lines(those are the sort of straight lines that run the length of the shaft).

now turn the shaft so that the grain lines are ON THE SIDE, ie NOT facing up when you shoot.

if you want that supposed consistant hit, THAT is how the shaft should always be facing, therefore you mark your shaft to that position. the reason: take a bunch of strips of cardboard or whatever and stack them. which way will the stack bend? you want that bend to be up and down, not side to side, for a consistant hit, because side to side flex will vary and create different deflections on the cb.

personally, i think it's way too much minutea for you to concern yourself with, unless you're a top pro who finds significance in these variances.

 

[rackem]

take a look at your shaft.

find the grain lines(those are the sort of straight lines that run the length of the shaft).

now turn the shaft so that the grain lines are ON THE SIDE, ie NOT facing up when you shoot.

Those grain lines are often refered to as the ladder. That's kind of what they look like. That's how the old-timers indexed their shaft before the advent of laminated shafts or dots.
The predator shaft I own has a ladder in 7 of the ten segments. I don't really know if that makes it any better than the next Predator, but its enough to make me think so.And that's all that counts.

 

[Bob Jewett]

forget it, don't go thru the trouble of being distracted by turning your cue for shots, instead go to www.ob-1.com and check out the ob-1 shaft.

But Bernie, why do all of the top snooker players hold their cues in the same orientation on every shot? In any case, it's not distracting once you've done it for a while.

 

[Tbeaux]

I think it was Bob Jewett who suggested putting a marker stripe on the ferrule (the same way Meucci do with their red/black dot shaft) to keep the cue play more consistent -- I was wondering if there's a way to find where this stripe should be placed, i.e. if it's possible to read the wood-grain of the shaft, or if it's all just arbitrary?

-- peer

(1) Look....(2) read....(3) make something that will do the same thing (sandbags,wood block, and weights or a pull scale)
http://www.meuccicues.com/Spine-Gauge.htm

Remember to rotate the shaft and check all the way around. The spot that requires the least amount of weight shows where the shaft is most likely to bend.

Terry

 

[Bob Jewett]

... Remember to rotate the shaft and check all the way around. The spot that requires the least amount of weight shows where the shaft is most likely to bend.

While this is true, it's not clear how strongly bendability is related to how much squirt the shaft has. (Twice the spine, twice the squirt? Twice the spine, half the squirt? I've heard both claimed.)

 

[Gregg]

personally, i think it's way too much minutea for you to concern yourself with, unless you're a top pro who finds significance in these variances.

I thought everyone here was a top pro? I must be in the wrong forum then....