What is the best ferrule material to use?

pooldawg8 said:
Are you kidding me Joey? I wish I knew that 2yrs ago. I threw out probably 16 or 18 sets of white antlers. Let me know if you need any, I may be able to hit my buddys up & see what they have lying around.
Jeff
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Nope.
The best thing about them is that they are almost pitless and no marrow.
If you can find some that can be turned to 14MM round, they're good.
 
lol....I had a bunch of buddies out collecting whitetail antlers.....by january I'll probably have two pickup truck loads of the stuff.....already have a ton of it....living in dear hunting country has its advantages.....
 
desi2960 said:
craig, what is wrong with using elk for a ferrule?

chuck starkey
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Hello Chuck, the stuff we pick up here has a lot of marrow or softness in the center. I am only going off what I seen, if you have some that is solid without the soft center I am sure it would be fine.
 
desi2960 said:
i have many elk tines that are very solid with no pits or marrow in the center. i cannot tell the difference in the hit of elk, stag horn, deer antler, buckhorn, or whatever type of antler. you just have to find the solid pieces.
chuck
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ditto that
the tips of the antler are solid as can be :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
KJ Cues said:
I'm curious. Why would you need a ferrule to be heat resistant?
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Once put on a tip on an burnished the side of the tip with piece of leather and it burned a groove in the end of the ferrule. Probably my fault since i was talking while doing it. But it seemed to burn pretty easy. Looked like Titan material. KJ if you check out JC's avatar of Jennifer couple posts up, well she is holding my cue and when i got it back the ferrule was melted for some reason.:happydance:
 
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SK Custom Cues said:
Ivory is hands down the best ferrule material. It looks good and nothing polishes up like ivory...... It may not be the best in terms of heat resistant, but you can play with it, break with it and not have to worry about a thing. The next best ferrule material is the old, paper based micarta.... it has that real sweet hit to it. Both ivory and micarta have different hits, and are sweet in their own ways, but are expensive. If you wanted to go with something cheaper, I would recommend a good Melamine or Aegis.
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I find ivory one of the worst ferrule materials in terms of playability and is quite brittle and on a thick shaft like 13mm it causes alot of deflection unless the shaft is taken down to lower the weight in the front end.Cosmeticly looks nice,but for me thats about it.
 
I've had couple shafts i wouldnt mind roasting some marshmallows on. Thanks for the replies guys. Im just starting to learn and looking for all the knowledge i can get.
 
scsuxci said:
I find ivory one of the worst ferrule materials in terms of playability and is quite brittle and on a thick shaft like 13mm it causes alot of deflection unless the shaft is taken down to lower the weight in the front end.Cosmeticly looks nice,but for me thats about it.
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Brittle? I don't think so. I play with nothing but ivory ferrules and break as hard as I want to all day long with it and I have never cracked a ferrule. It maybe less resilient than a fiber ferrule, but it is a hard material. You just gotta be careful in extreme temps.... The hit, the tone, and feed back of an ivory ferrule to me is kind of like putting a cherry on top as a finishing touch to a great cue. As far as deflection, you are right, but you gotta know how to play with ivory. I don't get into all the LD and deflection crap. It is all in your head. The human capacity to correct those minor details is limitless.....

BTW, to the OP, I forgot to mention buffalo horn. I used that on a break stick with a white diamond tip for a while and I was crushing the racks.......
 
An Ivory ferrule is pretty tough. I don't see many broken ones.
The only one I've ever put on that has come back was really short, had a 1/4" tenon, and was only 10mm in diameter. The guy had been breaking with it for at least 6 months before it cracked.
 
I love capless ivory with 3/8-16 threaded tenon. Reduces considerable endmass over capped at smaller tenon diameters and still plenty strong.

Martin



SK Custom Cues said:
Brittle? I don't think so. I play with nothing but ivory ferrules and break as hard as I want to all day long with it and I have never cracked a ferrule. It maybe less resilient than a fiber ferrule, but it is a hard material. You just gotta be careful in extreme temps.... The hit, the tone, and feed back of an ivory ferrule to me is kind of like putting a cherry on top as a finishing touch to a great cue. As far as deflection, you are right, but you gotta know how to play with ivory. I don't get into all the LD and deflection crap. It is all in your head. The human capacity to correct those minor details is limitless.....

BTW, to the OP, I forgot to mention buffalo horn. I used that on a break stick with a white diamond tip for a while and I was crushing the racks.......
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chicagocheo73 said:
@McChen

your ranking is:

elforyn
juma
micarta

is it right????


thx sir
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other way around.....mason micarta #1 and #2 elforyn/juma (pretty much the same material other than color)

i also like short 1/2" ferrules, uncapped with a large 3/8 threaded tenon. solid hit, low mass for lower deflection
 
Old Micarta from Knifemaker is pretty good stuff. Should check with him to see if he has any left. I had put one on for myself and it's plays sweet.
 
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