Balance Over Weight
Players obsess over ounces and ignore where those ounces sit. Why balance point matters more than the number on the label.
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Ounces change everything. What cue weight actually does to your cue action, your power and your consistency — and how to find the weight that suits how you play.
Carbon has arrived, composites have improved, and ash is still the shaft timber of choice at the top of the game. We look at why.
Twenty years growing, months seasoning, hours turning. The full journey a piece of timber takes before it becomes a cue.
Every shot sends information back up the shaft. What that feedback tells you, and why some cues say more than others.
Players obsess over ounces and ignore where those ounces sit. Why balance point matters more than the number on the label.
A practical method for working out the balance point that suits your stance, your grip and your game — testable on any table.
Splices, ferrules and finish all change how a cue handles vibration. What damping does to feel, and where the trade-offs sit.
What actually happens in the milliseconds a tip is in contact with the cue ball, and why so little of your effort reaches it.