need some opinions

jfais1717

jfais1717

A.K.A Jimmy Tipless
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so im looking to have a cue made and there are certain aspects of this cue that i need help with:
- cored or not cored
- one piece core or multiple piece
- if cored what type of wood as the core
- what type of shaft

now i have heard that cored cues hit the best. true or false?
now to me it seams only a one piece cored cue would hit better of cored cues because a multi piece core would defeat the purpose of having a solid piece running down the middle, unless the reason for coring is the type of wood used as the core. now i have seen 2 types of wood used as cores: purple heart and maple. which is better?
and last what wood used for the shaft? i have always heard of hard rock maple for the shaft, but recently i have heard about people using purple heart for shafts too. not sure which one would be better.
any and all help is appreciated and thanks for taking the time to stop by and look.
 
I think you should decide on what type of hit & feel you like, then maybe ask around about which builders offer it. It doesn't matter if a cue is cored or not, whether it's a solid core or sectioned, maple or purpleheart. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is if the cue feels good in your hands & performs the way you feel comfortable with. How the builder achieves that is up to him. One cuemaker might use a one piece core while the other uses no core while another uses segmented cores, and all will be capable of producing the cue that you require as a player. You are asking questions that involve nothing except a builder's personal preference in the construction style of his cues. There is no better or best method of construction. What matters is how well the builder executes his chosen method & how much he knows about being able to make the cue fit your requirements. But even the best builder can't give you what you want unless you know what you want. Right now, unless you are trying to learn cuemaking, you are asking things that shouldn't even matter to you. You should be concerned about how the cue feels & performs in your hands, not how the builder accomplished it.
 
Cues are cored to reinforce the wood , or make it stable ... Such as some ebonies and especially the burls ... How it plays , well , depends on who makes it ... If you feel a cored cue makes your skirt fly up , by all means get one ... not really necessary ... :cool:
 
now see these last 2 post were helpful. i learned the reasons behind coring the wood for cues. obviously i knew that a cue maker could make a cue anyway he felt was his better suit but i wanted to know why it was done and if it was better. not tryin to start somethin but you answered the questions as if i were a 5 year old. thanks for the answers and opinions. keep em comin.
 
jfais1717 said:
now see these last 2 post were helpful. i learned the reasons behind coring the wood for cues. obviously i knew that a cue maker could make a cue anyway he felt was his better suit but i wanted to know why it was done and if it was better. not tryin to start somethin but you answered the questions as if i were a 5 year old. thanks for the answers and opinions. keep em comin.
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Because you asked them like a 5 year old

Point being, you never asked why we core. So I didn't tell you why. You asked what hits best out of some of your interpretations of coring methods & materials we use. Your post indicated that you know very little of anything about cue construction, which is why I told you that it doesn't matter & you shouldn't concern yourself with it. You miss the point where I answer your questions about better & best, and assume i'm being an asshole with my answer, which I wasn't. If you want self promoting propoganda i'm sure somebody here will spoon feed it to you all day long. If you want the truth, then don't get your panties in a bunch when it's not what you wanted to hear.
 
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sorry for being a 5 year old. ill know what to ask next time. i just realized that i didnt ask why builders cored them even though i thought i had. at the same time even though im not a cue builder i still would rather be informed about what im buying instead of just asking for something while not knowing anything about it. now im not ignorant anymore about why cues are cored. befor ei was under the impression that cored cues hit better just because they are cored. i have a saying: its better to be well informed rather than illinformed or ignorant.

so i am correct in interpreting that no matter how a cue is constructed, that even if it is constructed the exact same with exact woods and everything the same but by 2 different cue builders that it will play different? i understand the quality of construction will be different but would that difference affect the playability?
 
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