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Advice for reshaping cue tip
I just try to practice reshaping my cue tip using some cheap one before I start working on my expensive tip. Here's the result, is there anything i should improve?
Also, i notice that not just this one but all the tips i have practiced on, when chalking, there is always a small spot in the middle that I can't chalk easily, the one in the picture is the best i got but you can see a little t-shape in the middle that is blue instead of green. Is this a problem of how i shape is? Or It's just a bad tip overall?
Thank you for any advice
u/Tiny-Criticism-9602 — 11 days ago
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Question about OkHealing Uniloc
I'm buying a jump shaft from Okhealing, and this image from the website makes me worry. Apparently, both of them are Uniloc, and if the image was identified correctly, the one on the left is what they called OkHealing Uniloc, and the one on the right is Predator Uniloc and the shaft I bought are likely to be the first one. And from some posts on Reddit, it is said that those 2 are not interchangeable because the 3 threads diameter is slightly bigger. I would like to ask, have anyone ever ordered an Okhealing cue with OkHealing uniloc and tried it on a predator butt or any other uniloc butt? Would they fit in or not? Is it like just hard to unscrew, or are they not going to fit in at all?
u/Tiny-Criticism-9602 — 14 days ago
12.5 Low-deflection carbon-fiber shaft for a jump cue?
So recently, I have bought an OK Healing playing cue with tip size 12.5. I have decide that I would like to use a smaller tip after try out my friend cue for the first time (11.8), thus I decide to order a similar 11.8 shaft from Ok Healing as well. However, this will mean that i will have one spare shaft lying around, and I would like to utilize as a jump cue but here is a few question that I can't find a reliable answer anywhere.
Will low deflection (hollow in the front of the shaft) make it not usable as a jump cue, or in the worst case, could it potentially damage the inside of the shaft? I saw someone say that it will flex too much, which is opposite to a normal jump cue where we want a rigid head. (For more information, I believe this shaft uses a 0.9- or 1-mm inner carbon tube thickness if that helps.)
This was originally a playing shaft. If I want it to be a jump shaft beside the tip, do I need to change the ferrule as well? What type of ferrule that use a harder material and suitable for jump cue?
As for the butt, I intend to use those cheap-budget 3-piece jump cues that you often find in the pool hall? Will there be any problem with this setup? Because when I try them with just 2 sections, they feel kind of light for a jump shot.
u/Tiny-Criticism-9602 — 22 days ago