Playing pool with snooker cue

Oh, quick tip for snooker tips. When you're down to your last layer or two on your American cue, and are about to replace it, cut it off and put it on your snooker cue. Buy one of AndyWho's (?) pencil sharpener tip trimmers and you've got a perfectly sized tip in seconds. I have a triangle on my English 8 ball cue and an Everest on my snooker cue. You can't really damage a metal ferrule, so you can experiment with as many old tips as you like.
 
One of the top snooker players here in Cyprus (a Brit, I think he's number one or two) played me a set of 8 ball with his 9mm snooker cue a while back. I did NOT like it.:frown: He did screw up his tip, though. :embarrassed2:
 
TheThaiger said:
How do Kamui's play on snooker cues? I don't know anyone - even world champions - who will pay £10 for a tip. Snooker players and English 8 ballers think I'm crazy when I tell them how much American pool gear costs me.
Click to expand...
Haha yeah most of my mates have a rock hard tip on their snooker cues. £1.50 for a pack of 3 from JJB! The Kamui Black M is great. Can't argue with paying 7 quid for it. One thing I would say though, if you use the cheap turquoise triangle chalk, like nearly every snooker player I know, it doesn't hold it. Neither does American style Kamuis for that matter. Masters and blue diamond aren't a problem though. Little harder than the American 13mm version. If its good enough for Higgins it'll do for me.

I wish I knew about the little tip trick when you're down to a couple of layers! Just changed a black heart and a moori. Got an english 8 ball cue in need of a new tip aswel. Gutted!
 
Last edited:
alojz_ferluga said:
Does anybody use snooker cue to play pool?
I went on snooker table at the club few days ago and used friends nice snooker cue.
That cue (nothing special, quite cheap) feel was great, very stiff (harder wood maybe), with small 9mm tip.
I had much better feel whe aiming at the cue ball.
It is also much easier to get more action from the CB (follow, draw, english).

Any comments?
Click to expand...

I have seen a VERY strong snooker player use his snooker cue and run racks and break very hard with a open bridge-no problems. It can be done, I cant play a lick with a proper snooker cue, depends on what a player is accustomed to.
 
jschelin99 said:
Since I've never worked on a snooker cue, perhaps I'm wrong, but can't any tip be installed on a snooker cue?
Click to expand...


any tip is fine, just have to know how to work with a brass ferrel, I don't personally know how to do it-but i know it can be done. I have seen it done.
 
Just last night I installed a Kamui Black S onto my snooker cue, 9mm ferrule.
Going for a few frames tonight, I'll let you know how I get on with it, also using Kamui 1.21 chalk so RunoutJJ, I'll report back on that too ;)
 
I use a 9.5mm tip on a 1/4" ferrule with a (stiff) conical taper and lots of different hard layered tips (Moori, Kamui, Sniper, Everest, etc.).

Only two things are different from a wider tip: it squirts less and it's easier to see where I'm hitting the cue ball.

It does not create more or less spin, either purposely or accidentally, and I can do anything with it except break.

pj
chgo
 
Why do people think a smaller tip creates more spin? I've never understood that. Chances are you would be using a dime or nikel shaped tip so regardless of the size the contact area on the tip will be the same. The same can be said for people who say its harder to hit centre ball...contact area is the same and you can see more precisely where you are going to contact the CB...its easier to hit exactly where you intend on the CB with a smaller tip IMO.
 
Pidge said:
Why do people think a smaller tip creates more spin? I've never understood that. Chances are you would be using a dime or nikel shaped tip so regardless of the size the contact area on the tip will be the same. The same can be said for people who say its harder to hit centre ball...contact area is the same and you can see more precisely where you are going to contact the CB...its easier to hit exactly where you intend on the CB with a smaller tip IMO.
Click to expand...
Yes. In fact, even if the contact area was smaller - even if it was a pinpoint - it would make no difference. The size of the contact area is irrelevant.

pj
chgo
 
How do you know this? If you have a link to support this I'd appreciate a post. I'm intrigued. Everything I've read on the matter says the curvature of a tip does make a difference. I've always thought the larger contact area between CB and tip provides more grip and thus the ability to impart ore spin.

I could be wrong and a greater contact area may just lower the chance of a miscue, or is this all hearsay too?
 
Pidge said:
I've always thought the larger contact area between CB and tip provides more grip and thus the ability to impart ore spin.
Click to expand...
The contact areas on all cue tips I've seen, no matter what size, curvature or hardness, are about the same, and all are big enough to "grip" the ball with no significant slippage, so they all produce maximum spin. No spin advantage for one over another.

A pinpoint size tip might miscue more, but it wouldn't increase spin by "concentrating the force more" or anything like that - that's the idea I thought I was addressing.

pj
chgo
 
Yeah I wasnt having a go or anything I'm just intrigued.

I decided to google after I posted rather than before....GENIUS! Seems I couldn't find anything on this matter and I can't remember where I first read it. Wikipedia no doubt. Thanks again wikipedia for supplying me with the stone cold truth...um?

What I did find though was a more rounded tip requires you to hit closer to centre compared to a flatter tip to produce the same amount of spin. I might have been getting my self confused with this.
 
Pidge said:
...a more rounded tip requires you to hit closer to centre compared to a flatter tip to produce the same amount of spin.
Click to expand...
I'd say, "A more rounded tip requires you to have the center of your tip slightly closer to center ball to hit the same CB contact point and produce the same amount of spin."

pj
chgo
 
Siz said:
What's your ferrule made out of Patrick?
Click to expand...
Um, ferrule plastic - I'm guessing the fiber reinforced stuff. Made for me by a well known cue maker with whatever he thought was best.

I wanted 1/8" solid pads but got overruled and 1/4" sleeve ferrules instead, which have held up surprisingly well - I've only cracked one in over ten years of use, and I don't baby them.

pj
chgo
 
Andrew Barlow finished 3rd in the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1998 using a 1-piece snooker cue.
 
I never played a snooker cue for pool, but when I lived in the UK I played snooker with my JOSS for a year. Balls went in pockets.

I was told I was an "excellent potter". :wink:





.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
The contact areas on all cue tips I've seen, no matter what size, curvature or hardness, are about the same, and all are big enough to "grip" the ball with no significant slippage, so they all produce maximum spin. No spin advantage for one over another.

A pinpoint size tip might miscue more, but it wouldn't increase spin by "concentrating the force more" or anything like that - that's the idea I thought I was addressing.

pj
chgo
Click to expand...


He asked for a link...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top