Selby's Cue

The other day I was watching the Higgins match and Dennis Taylor said that Higgins uses a "Japanese layered tip" versus the standard "American made leather tips" that Steve Davis said.

Dennis Taylor also added that he uses a tip that's 30 years old and it's still like new. :confused:
 
Ronnie started to use Talisman tips a while ago, and converted other players, including Steve Davis.

Don't know if this is what Higgins uses, or if Talisman is Japanese.

How many years has Dennis Taylor been retired?:D
 
SirNoobs said:
The other day I was watching the Higgins match and Dennis Taylor said that Higgins uses a "Japanese layered tip" versus the standard "American made leather tips" that Steve Davis said.

Dennis Taylor also added that he uses a tip that's 30 years old and it's still like new. :confused:
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All he meant was the tip has been on there for 30 years but its still fine because he's only played a handful of times since retiring.
 
Talisman tips are made by an English bloke in Thailand.
Higgins is using the Japanese Moori tip at the moment.
 
Shaun Murphy uses a 100 Year old English Billiards cue he received for his 16th birthday with a small tip, around 8.75mm

he also said he's not too attached to it and could use another if he had to without any problem
 
the brits are not equipment obssessed like us but I have noticed alot more variety and modern options recently when it comes to their cues

I'm still surprised they have not ditched the brass ferrules though
 
Old billiards cues with tips under 10mm were unheard of so if Murphy's is now under 9mm chances are the taper if it was different is now a snooker one.effectively making it an ex billiard cue. I remember him saying he was going to change it last year but he apparently didn't.

A hell of a lot of uk pool players play with retapered old billiards cues with tips around the 8mm mark as you can pick them up pretty cheap and have them refinished for half the cost of a new cue.

I bought an old Riely Tombstone cue without a ferrule at 11mm initially thinking of having one on and playing pool with it but in the end had just the ferrule on and I reckon it's ideal for us pool now.

Brass does the job, it's cheap, harder wearing and looks as nice as gold, so why should we change it for plastic or whatever? It's not as if it'll help pot a ball is it?

Amazes me why so few (if any) pool players play with a one piece cue. :confused:
 
Shaun Murphy's cue was previously owned by Ray Reardon

His father bought the 80-year-old instrument from a Northamptonshire cue-maker when Murphy was 15. It had once belonged to Ray Reardon, the six-times world champion, and an instant relationship was formed.

“The first time I used it, I got a break of 143,” Murphy said yesterday. “It must have some magical property to it, like a Harry Potter wand.”

Source
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article705739.ece
 
switching ferrules wouldn't reduce deflection as much as you think.

one, the brass ferrule is thin walled and short. if you used a plastic composite, you'd have to thicken the wall and the tenon would get thin as the tip on these cues is already pretty small. brass is actually a pretty good material for these kind of very small tipped cues. it also hardens up the hit on these cues, which is good with the smaller lighter balls to get a bit more feel.

some of the old UK cues did have composite ferrules and so do a lot of the canadian ones. so it has been tried....players have pretty much chosen brass over these and apparently the deflection hasn't been a problem.
 
SirNoobs said:
The other day I was watching the Higgins match and Dennis Taylor said that Higgins uses a "Japanese layered tip" versus the standard "American made leather tips" that Steve Davis said.

Dennis Taylor also added that he uses a tip that's 30 years old and it's still like new. :confused:
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Sorry, I know this is off the original topic, but I was wondering something else about the match that SirNoobs referenced. Did it seem that, in that match, the table was particularly marked up with chalk? I watched some of the slow-motion replays, and Higgins' cue was just exploding with chalk, and leaving enormous chalk trails. It seemed like, either he was using a different chalk, or he was applying more or something (?).

I don't recall any of the other matches where the table was so marked up...

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swest
Dunno if he was watching Eurosport or the BBC if indeed that match but my mate told me earlier a commentator mentioned some players were trying out a new chalk.

Church66 Those ltd edition Selby cues you link to are made by cuecraft in nottingham, (the oval resin badge and the union jack give it away)
Nothings changed in hundred years in that respect... never take a makers badge as being the maker. Peradon made Burroughs and Watts cues and B+W Made Peradon 100 years ago and most makers are at the same game nowadays.
 
Wity said:
Talisman tips are made by an English bloke in Thailand.
Higgins is using the Japanese Moori tip at the moment.
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I believe Higgins is using a Kamui (black) tip actually, and not a Moori.

O'Sullivan was definitely using an Elkmaster or a Blue Diamond at the WSC. You could easily see that during a few of the closeups they showed, not to mention by the sound.
 
My mistake,sorry.


btw,

I've a bag here of womens boots leather heels from the 50's. They literally fell off the back of a wagon and were given to my uncle who used to be a cobbler. Gonna give em a try as tips if i can find a hole punch. They seem rock hard :D
 
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