What do you plug your butt cap with?

Cuemaster98

Cuemaster98

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Hi Guys,

I've see a number of custom cues that have unique way of finishing off their butt cap design. Just wondering if anyone have any ideas how the different designed will affect the hit of the cue and the sound it will generate?

Here's my observation:

1) Bumper Less with weight Blot showing (Hoppe Style)...generally a distant hard hit metalic sound. (clunk sound)

2) Bumper less with exotic wood/ivory plug (softer sound and quieter)

3) Bumper with no internal weight bolt and plugged with epoxy (SW,RH) very unique sound...especially when you have the right shaft wood.

4) Bumper with weight blot (depends on the quality of shaft, joint type and butt)

Regards,
Duc.
 
I once had a top pro player playing with one of my cues. He had another cuemaker make him a phenolic bumper and put it in there in place of the rubber one, and he said the feedback and sound made it the best playing cue he had ever owned. I have not tried it, but he swore by the phenolic bumper.
 
cueman said:
I once had a top pro player playing with one of my cues. He had another cuemaker make him a phenolic bumper and put it in there in place of the rubber one, and he said the feedback and sound made it the best playing cue he had ever owned. I have not tried it, but he swore by the phenolic bumper.
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Goes against common sense, doesn't it!?!?!?

That's how progress is made sometimes.

Gary
 
There is deff a difference between bumper and bumperless. I always compare it to sticking a tuning fork in a glass of water. Deadens the vibration.
 
dave sutton said:
There is deff a difference between bumper and bumperless. I always compare it to sticking a tuning fork in a glass of water. Deadens the vibration.
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yea....just like those silly limb saver devices that you use on baseball bats and bows on cues.....you kill the hit? WTF is the point of that?

The best playing cues i've ever owned either were bumperless or had really thin profile bumpers that were super snug and tight.
 
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