Specially made snooker shafts for American Pool cues

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BFrench501

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Hi guys just looking for some opinions or any experiences you guys may have.

Do any of you shoot snooker with an 'American Pool' cue (I'm from England so forgive me...) or with a proper snooker cue?

The reason I ask is that someone I know made me a low deflecttion shaft with 9.5mm tip which attaches to my 18.5oz playing cue. The problem is, I cannot play snooker with it AT ALL but I play 9-ball and Rotation to a fairly decent club player level.

My highest break with a snooker cue that cost £35 is 67, but I can't even make a 20 break with a cue I use for 9-ball that is worth over £1,000. I'll admit, I've played snooker only a handful of times as Rotation games are my passion. But it is weird that i can't pot a single thing with a cue thats worth a lot of money. Is there some technical reason why a pool cue wont perform on a snooker table? Is it maybe that using a pool stroke doesnt work on a snooker table?

Sorry if it seems a little rambled but I hope that you can make sense of it to be able to share your thoughts.

Thanks
Baz :)
 
BFrench501 said:
Hi guys just looking for some opinions or any experiences you guys may have.

Do any of you shoot snooker with an 'American Pool' cue (I'm from England so forgive me...) or with a proper snooker cue?

The reason I ask is that someone I know made me a low deflecttion shaft with 9.5mm tip which attaches to my 18.5oz playing cue. The problem is, I cannot play snooker with it AT ALL but I play 9-ball and Rotation to a fairly decent club player level.

My highest break with a snooker cue that cost £35 is 67, but I can't even make a 20 break with a cue I use for 9-ball that is worth over £1,000. I'll admit, I've played snooker only a handful of times as Rotation games are my passion. But it is weird that i can't pot a single thing with a cue thats worth a lot of money. Is there some technical reason why a pool cue wont perform on a snooker table? Is it maybe that using a pool stroke doesnt work on a snooker table?

Sorry if it seems a little rambled but I hope that you can make sense of it to be able to share your thoughts.

Thanks
Baz :)
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Seems to me that 9 mm is already low deflection....
..so combine that with LD and you got a big MASSE problem.
So get rid of it...a Predator Z shaft (untouched) plays not bad.
...preferably with a wood-to-wood joint
 
All I've ever played with on a snooker table is a "pool cue". I favor larger diameter tips (13mm or slightly over) and I have played some pretty good American snooker in the past. I can think of no reason why someone else shouldn't be able to do the same, even though the balls might be 1/16th inch less diameter.
 
Seems to me that £1000 cue aint worth 10 bob in your hands.

Try playing pool with your snooker cue and getting into the mindset your in when playing snooker where your concentrating more on accuracy for the smaller pockets and i'd bet your pool improves.

Whats the difference between a pool stroke and a snooker one besides the open /closed bridge?
 
big difference in strokes

Wity said:
Seems to me that £1000 cue aint worth 10 bob in your hands.

Try playing pool with your snooker cue and getting into the mindset your in when playing snooker where your concentrating more on accuracy for the smaller pockets and i'd bet your pool improves.

Whats the difference between a pool stroke and a snooker one besides the open /closed bridge?
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In North America at least, most people in actuality have very poor strokes.
Elbows flying, wrists twisting, head moving all over the place, wobbly stances, cue flying around after contacting the cue ball.

Combine this with the fact that pool players automatically aim at pockets less precisely, cheating a bit toward undercutting the ball because the pockets accept balls that contact the rail before the pocket (sometimes as much as a foot).

Thus, lots of players can play pool reasonably well, but have very little success with snooker.

It takes decent pool players a long time to be able to focus on aiming with the precision necessary to play snooker well.
 
I've played with both a pool cue with a 10mm shaft and a snooker cue.
If you are playing snooker on a 6' x 12' table, buy yourself a snooker cue. I don't care if it's a $50.00 cue, it will play better than a pool cue will.

To me, it seemed that the snooker balls "bounced" off the tip after contact. To much deflection for me.

Mike
 
I play snooker more than pool, and I have a Mike Wooldridge Shark that I started playing snooker with, at 9.5mm. Some few months back I did some trading and picked up an OB2 shaft (11.75mm) that fits my Schon Pool cue, so when I tried it out I did not like it so much for pool as I generally shoot pool with a Schon IV shaft at 12.75mm. Anyway, I tried the OB2 on the snooker table and immediately liked it. I have a soft black Kamui tip on it and I can spin and "screw" the ball much better with it than I ever did with the Black Shark. So, if you get a chance give an OB2 a try, you "may" like it.
 
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