What are specifications on your favorite hitting cue

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I wanted to do a survey and find out what people play with? Example: I play with

Length: 58 inches
weight:18.5 ounces
Shaft:13mm
Taper:16 to 16.5 inches from tip
Ferrulle: 3/4 inches Melamine non-squirt
Balance Point:19 to19.5 inches from bottom
Balance point ratio: 33.62% behind balance & 66.37% front of balance
Tip: Lepro
Joint: Flat face 3/8 into wood
Joint material: Wood not ivory or Stainless
Construction method: Cored with maple do not like other way!

I checked all 4 of the cues I have keeped in my collection and examined them for simularities as I have had hundreds of cues but kept these because I loved the feel. I noticed they all had the same BALANCE POINT, TAPER & LENGTH. The only variable that changed on them was the weight varied and the butt diameter. i.e. Szamboti style butt vs. 80's style size!

All of you are pretty savy and I would love to hear what the specs are on your favorite hitting cue? I hope some pro's can chime in on what there cue specs are regarding taper & Balance Point particularly. lenght would help as well in terms of measurements and comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges. I would like to see if the ratios are the same on what people like. I.E. or "that is" if my cue is 58 inches with 19.5 balance point the ratio is 38.5 inches or 66.37 percent of the cue to the front of balance versus 19.5 inches or 33.62 percent to the back of balance point. I think if I sample the AZ community we could come to a majority concensus on the Balance point, taper lenght, tip, Squirt level & etc.

Thanks for the input!

King Kong
 
Length: A 60" B 58" C 58" D 59"
weight: All 19.5 ounces
Shaft: All 13mm
Taper: All 16" progressive
Ferrulle: Different on every cue.
Tip: Moori III Quick
Joint: Flat face 3/8 into wood
Joint material: Wood
 
I play with "Maryland style cues" ie: Black boar/Scruggs/Phillipe/Joss/Black

58" length +or- a 1/2"
Piloted SS joint
Forward weighted, balanced roughly 18-1/2" to 19" from butt cap
Ivory ferrules preferable
Thinnish butt
13mm with standard pro taper
LePro/Talisman soft/Triangle tips...

there you have it....Gerry
 
Specs of my Skip Weston in progress:

Length: 58.5 inches
weight:19.7 ounces
Shaft: 12.9mm
Taper: http://skipwestoncues.com/shafts.htm
Ferrules: Ivory
Balance Point: 20 inches from bottom
Balance point ratio: 34% behind balance & 66% front of balance
Tip: Hercules Medium
Joint: 5/16 x 14
Joint material: Stainless Steel

Specifically asked for heavier shafts (4.1 - 4.5 oz), forward balance is very important to me.
 
Mine is a Dave Jones custom:

Length: 60 inches
weight:18.5 ounces
Shaft: 12.6 mm
Taper: standard Predator 314
Ferrulle: standard Predator 314 (ABS plastic)
Balance Point:19.25" from bottom
Balance point ratio: 32.08% behind balance & 67.92% front of balance
Tip: Talisman PRO Medium
Joint: Flat face 3/8" Radial Pin into wood
Joint material: Phenolic collar
Construction method: Cored with maple
 
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Length: 58 inches
weight:18.5 ounces
Shaft:12.75 mm
Taper: Predator 314, 17.5 inches?
Ferrulle: ABS plastic?
Balance Point:17.5 inches from bottom
Balance point ratio: no idea what that means
Tip: Moori Quick
Joint: Uni Loc
Joint material: Stainless + brass
Construction method: Cored with maple
 
Length: 58 inches

Weight:18.5 to 19 oz.

Shaft:12.75 to 12.875 mm

Taper: tough to say. 13.1 mm Mottey shaft with the taper adjusted to 12.875 by Paul Fanelli.

Ferrulle: Ivory

Balance Point: Forward

Tip: Moori medium (been playing with a Molavia but prefer the Moori)

Joint: Any joint works for me but I play with Mottey's 5/16x14 piloted Ivory.

Joint material: Ivory. Also has Stainless steel, wood to wood, and a buckhorn on the way.

Construction method: Well, I'm sure some lathes were used. Maybe a pantograph or two. Some basic tools for woodworking. Stuff like that. (I'm not really sure what you mean by this but if its a reference to cored versus non-cored, none of my current cues are cored.)
 
Prewitt-

19.0 ounces
13.1 mm shafts with ivory ferrules (this cue has almost no deflection)
Leather wrap (a must)
Ivory flat faced joint steel 3/8x10 pin.
Moori hard (Q) tip
Balance point 19 1/2 from butt.
 
I enjoy my Pechauer immensely. I like the way it feels and the feedback I get from it.
It's 19.5 with a 13mm shaft.

I also play with my Layani (recently ran my new high of 41 in 14.1 with it). I'm not used to the feel of it quite yet, but I try.
It's also about 19.5 with a 12.75mm shaft.
 
I like a

60" cue with a leather wrap. I also like:

18 oz
short ferrule non-ivory
13 mm shaft with pro taper
Triangle tip
Joint - I don't reall care. I've played with most of them and I don't really care that much as long as they tighten up nice.
The joint material doesn't matter that much either. I've played with stainless, plastic, wood and all I care about is if they hit good and so far all of those have hit fine for me. I think a lot depends on whose making the cue.

I'm currently shooting with a Jacoby with the stats listed above. I like it a lot. I've played with an old Danny Janes Joss with the stainless joint, an old Meucci with the plastic joint, a Shraeger sneaky pete, an old Adams, a Pechauer with a stainless joint, a Terry Stonier with a brass joint and a huge pin, several McDermotts, and I couldn't complain about any of them. I just happen to really like this Jacoby right now and I think that's because it's the first long cue I've ever had and if fits me so well.



QUOTE=King Kong]I wanted to do a survey and find out what people play with? Example: I play with

Length: 58 inches
weight:18.5 ounces
Shaft:13mm
Taper:16 to 16.5 inches from tip
Ferrulle: 3/4 inches Melamine non-squirt
Balance Point:19 to19.5 inches from bottom
Balance point ratio: 33.62% behind balance & 66.37% front of balance
Tip: Lepro
Joint: Flat face 3/8 into wood
Joint material: Wood not ivory or Stainless
Construction method: Cored with maple do not like other way!

King Kong[/QUOTE]
 
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