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The goal of a well made two piece cue is to make it feel like a one piece.
This is the deal right here. One piece cues are a pain in the ass to tote around and I believe they have a little more tendency to warp because the weight of the butt is always attached to the shaft if it leans on something. However, I'll make a flat statement that the joint itself never made a cue play better. Might have improved weight or balance but joints are a compromise, actually several compromises, and the best you can hope for is to match the feel of a one piece cue. Most jointed cues fall well short of that.
I scored a brand new moochie for fifty bucks from a friend that got them thrown to him as lagniappe when he bought something considerably more expensive. After playing with house cues for many years bystanders found it hilarious when I would be in the middle of a gambling match and fling the moochie in a corner and grab the first cue I laid hands on out of the rack. Took me six months or more to play as well with the 80's moochie as a house cue and I never played better with it.
The best stick I ever played pool with was a twelve ounce sixty inch one piece snooker cue. Was the cue from hell to learn to play with, super low deflection when low deflection wasn't cool, I had to learn to aim again. Damned thing vibrated like a tuning fork, far more feedback than I ever wanted! Felt like I was hitting the wall with the tip every time I hit the cue ball. Also seemed like I could hit the cue ball with my hand and move it around easier than with the stick, the stick weight seemed to be less than the cue ball's.
I wasn't playing nearly as much as I once had and it took a few months to make that stick play. The reward was the finest cue ball control I ever had, speed and angles. Ten dollar stick with a twelve dollar tip on it, or vice-versa. My first experience with milk duds too. Left the stick in the back of an old station wagon when I had a surgery, figured I could always buy another one if I wanted to. They quit making the stick and I'll have to turn my own someday. Going to put a hinge in it, G-10. Might talk a friend out of a custom threaded pin, might not. Gonna put the pin in the shaft where it should be too.
Hu
