they hit at least a ton. maybe a ton-n-a-half. honestly, i can't tell one wood from another in terms of 'hit'. too many other factors that do like tip, ferrule, taper.
Years ago Bert Schrager told me purpleheart is one of the best cue woods. He made many for 3 cushion players.I've never hit with a all Purpleheart cue (Merry Widow) and assume they offer a hard hit? Can someone enlightening me to how they hit? I realize the shaft has some effect as well.
That's great but there is zero evidence that one wood plays better than another. I've had full-splice cues made from cocobolo,rosewood(various sub-species), ebony, bacote, PH. They all played great. Never entered my mind that one wood played better. Too many other factors that really do influence hit/feel.Years ago Bert Schrager told me purpleheart is one of the best cue woods. He made many for 3 cushion players.
"hit" is generic and subjective. I have a wrapless Paul Dayton purpleheart sneaky and also an ebony based cue with a similar Paul Dayton shaft. both ultra medium tips same 3/8-10 joint. The hit of the ebony is what I would describe as solid, or hard little feedback in my right hand. the purpleheart cue is very different. Lots of feedback on the hit very different tone/resonance in the feel. (soft to me) I really like the feel of the purpleheart for those reasons. I was curios so I bought a Dale Perry purpleheart cue for a c-note on ebay to compare and I like the feel of that cue as well. Not sure if that helps but that is my experience with purpleheart. So many variables as stated so you really have to try the cue to know if that is the hit you seek.I've never hit with a all Purpleheart cue (Merry Widow) and assume they offer a hard hit? Can someone enlightening me to how they hit? I realize the shaft has some effect as well.
"hit" is generic and subjective. I have a wrapless Paul Dayton purpleheart sneaky and also an ebony based cue with a similar Paul Dayton shaft. both ultra medium tips same 3/8-10 joint. The hit of the ebony is what I would describe as solid, or hard little feedback in my right hand. the purpleheart cue is very different. Lots of feedback on the hit very different tone/resonance in the feel. (soft to me) I really like the feel of the purpleheart for those reasons. I was curios so I bought a Dale Perry purpleheart cue for a c-note on ebay to compare and I like the feel of that cue as well. Not sure if that helps but that is my experience with purpleheart. So many variables as stated so you really have to try the cue to know if that is the hit you seek.
I am sure you could beat me using a broomstick. I have seen that hustle before. Not everyone has unlimited talent. I put a pin in a 1.375 dowel and screwed a shaft onto it. Didn't miss a ball for two weeks.That's great but there is zero evidence that one wood plays better than another. I've had full-splice cues made from cocobolo,rosewood(various sub-species), ebony, bacote, PH. They all played great. Never entered my mind that one wood played better. Too many other factors that really do influence hit/feel.
IMO probably the best hit of all. Purpleheart shafts on the other hand have very little feeling what so ever. Unfortunately, most cuemakers core their woods these days, which makes everything more or less the same, but a purpleheart and old, straight grain maple sneaky pete is a dynamite combination. IMO there is none better.
That’s my intuition also, as crispnesses of hit in the cues I’ve had seems to loosely correlate to that harness scale, with PH being my all around favorite also. Certainly would be interesting to see results of such a frequency/resonance test…Using my inductive method brain (which I usually refrain from doing) I think that the resonant frequency ranges of various hardwoods relates directly to those hardwoods' hardness ratings (see the Janka hardwood hardness chart attached) and that the feel of the hit relates directly to the hardwoods' resonant frequencies (I recognize that nearly all shafts are made from hard maple).
I would prefer using my deductive method brain (but it is not up to it given the work necessary) where I take similarly shaped dowels of various harwoods and test their resonant frequencies in my frequency analyzer (which I have been using to accurately test golf shaft stiffness for years). I have the strong suspicion that gathering such data would confirm my inductively reasoned conclusion, but I have been wrong when testing other hypotheses in earlier attempts.