Preferred Tip Size Pros

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Island Drive

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Is there a common size most top players use these days?
The Varner/Hall generation 13mm was the norm.
 
I don't think there is. 13 was about the only option on most cues back then, unless you had them turned down or special ordered. I would think today it varies with all sizes between 11.75 and 12.75 being used the most.
 
I would think the average is around 12.4 or so. Lots of people playing revo 12.4 or 11.8, some playing with vantage or 12.9 revo.

SVB switched to 11.8 last year I believe.

I tend to go back and forth between 11.8-12.5.
 
in most sports if you use what the pros use for equipment you will play worse. as an amateur you dont use the pro stuff well.

there is a reason 13 was standard for most.
 
maha said:
in most sports if you use what the pros use for equipment you will play worse. as an amateur you dont use the pro stuff well.

there is a reason 13 was standard for most.
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And that reason is they didn’t have the marketing foresight to see they could sell 5 times as many shafts if more options were available
 
I would be interested in what most top pro carom billiards players use as a cue tip size. What I have learned for myself just playing pocket billiards is that as one gets much more refined in understanding cue ball movement; and being able to influence position play by very small adjustments in where the cue ball is stuck; that a tip diameter somewhat smaller than 13MM becomes much more ideal in pin point position play.

Mastering cue ball movement is probably even more critical in 3 cushion billiards play and perhaps in snooker as well with the larger tables. I do believe that snooker tip diameters are generally smaller than 13MM BY 1 OR 2 MM. I AM NOT VERSED IN CAROM BILLIARD CUE TIP SIZES.
 
I once had the impression that billiard tips were 14mm. This notion was seeded by my Adam Rubber Duck which happened to be a 57" 14mm stick. Naturally, I had half baked a theory as to the advantages of the fat tip - more grip easier stroking - it was in fact easier to shoot straight with than 11 and 12 mm cues. Imagine my disbelief when I read Cuelemans played with a 9mm tip. No point to this except that.

I went with 13mm (one 12mm) 30, 40 years ago. That's what most cues came with.
 
When I ordered my first cue in late '70s shafts were "custom" so were available in any size. The reason I ordered a 13mm shaft on my first cue (and continue to use 13mm today) is I have large hands and fingers and smaller shafts "get lost" in my hands. I have better control with the larger shafts. I had learned this through years of playing off the wall.
 
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