Wobble In Cue
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That question is probably best answered by the person that made your cue.justnick said:
Before you edited your post, I read that you rolled it and saw light under it
(at the joint?). You might want to check it at several different spots on your table.
Contrary to what one might think, a pool table is not a perfect place to check a cue for rolling straight. A while back I rolled my personal cue on my table (just out of habit) and noticed a little "wobble". Come to find out, when the man set up my table for me, he used wax to seal the joints in the slate instead of Durhams Rock Hard Putty. The wax expanded and left a small hump at the joint in the slate. I found this after I had rolled 6 or 8 different cues and none of them rolled smooth.
Just a little trivia: A human hair is somewhere between 3/1000" to 5/1000" thick. If your cue happens to have a flat faced joint, place a hair between the shaft and the joint (on one side only) then install the shaft. Roll it on a flat surface and you will more than likely find it will not roll smooth. The hair will prevent the shaft from seating properly against the joint collar (same effect as dirt or chalk build-up).
I know this does not answer your question, but it may give you some idea as to how accurate the machining has to be in making cues. There are a few other conditions that will cause a cue to "wobble" also (too many and too long a discussion to cover here though).