What is the best pool cue joint/pin type?

qolbrand said:
You revived a 12 year old post to say..... that?




wasn’t there some kind of blind pepsi challenge done where they taped off the joints to see if any players could tell the difference in pins?

i want to say i remember reading about that on here at one point but would love a source. From what i recall nobody could tell the difference
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Yes.
 
Goosekeeper said:
Yes.
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The test was done at a TexasExpress9ballTour event back in the 90's and yes what the test made clear is that you can't tell a cue's hit/feel based on the joint. The one test that was very telling for me was the Meucci staff player that thought a steel-joint Helmstetter had a Meucci joint. Old thread i know but people want to keep beating this poor dead horse. The tip/shaft/ferrule/shaft material/taper DO contribute to the 'hit' but not the joint.
 
garczar said:
The test was done at a TexasExpress9ballTour event back in the 90's and yes what the test made clear is that you can't tell a cue's hit/feel based on the joint. The one test that was very telling for me was the Meucci staff player that thought a steel-joint Helmstetter had a Meucci joint. Old thread i know but people want to keep beating this poor dead horse. The tip/shaft/ferrule/shaft material/taper DO contribute to the 'hit' but not the joint.
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If anyone wants to see John McChesney's comments, see post 71 in this thread. John's actual words about the test:

Bob Jewett

Post in thread 'What is the best pool cue joint/pin type?'

Some have referred to the blind test of joint types done by John McChesney and others in the 1990s. Here is a repeat that was originally in a discussion group called RSB. This can be found in the archive of that group if you want to see the original.

(as reposted by Murray Tucker on AZB)

Here it is. I keep it handy all the time.

Here is a Post from John McChesney circa 1999:

Here's something interesting we tried in 1991:
At an event we had 16 cues with the butt, joint and the ferrules covered
with masking tape...then numbered. No one could "see" if the cue was a
steel, plastic or wood...
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A while back i overheard someone at the 'hall professing just how much he loved how 3/8x10 flat-bottom pins hit. COMPLETELY out of character i just let him pontificate, smiled and nodded my head. He's a nice cat otherwise i'd have reamed him good. ;)
 
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