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Butts have varying constructions, from 3-piece to one-piece, as well as other custom versions that people have developed.

These translate into different "feels" because of the distribution of weight as well as the balance point of the cue.

The cue butt is often inlaid with exotic woods such as cocobolo and bocote as well as other materials such as ebony and ivory. Usually parts of the butt are sectioned off with decorative rings.

The use of various types of wraps on the cue butt, such as Irish linen or leather , provide a player with a better grip as well as absorbing moisture.

Low-priced cues usually feature a nylon wrap which is considered not as good a "feel" as Irish Linen. Some people also prefer a cue with no wrap, and thus just a glossed finish on wood.

Sometimes these no-wrap cues are more decorated because of the increased area for design and imagination. The butts of less expensive cues are usually spliced hardwood and a plastic covering while more high-end cues use solid rosewood or ebony.

The final part a cue is the bumper, made of rubber pool or leather snooker. Though often considered less important than other parts of a cue, this part is essential for protecting a cue.

The bumper protects the cue when it rests on the ground or accidentally hits a wall, table, etc. Without the bumper, such impacts might crack the butt over an extended period of time.

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It has a very soft Spanish bull leather wrap. The veneer combination of natural-green-orange between the jet black Ebony gives it a very striking look.

This is an opportunity to own a full Ebony on Ebony six point cue, with that famous Carmeli hit, at a very modest price.

Has matching joint protectors. Weighs in at a perfect 19 oz. Premium leather wrap. Six slot rings. Currently on Layaway If you see a case or cue you like but find yourself short on funds, consider our cue layaway plan.

Tube style cases. We love them. But there really is no way to keep the joint of the cue butt from from rattling back forth in the tube. Until now.

Introducing the Rattle Ring! The Rattle Ring is a disc made of Delrin plastic that screws on to your cues pin before you put your joint protector on.

Giving the joint of your cue a wider profile, and keeping it from rattling back an forth inside the tube of your case. Most cue collectors will properly store their expensive cue collection in equally expensive custom cue cases.

They put the cases in their closets and safes. A high quality two-piece cue with a nearly invisible wood-to-wood joint , so that it looks like a cheap one-piece house cue , is called a sneaky pete.

Shafts are made with various tapers, the two most common being the pro taper and the European taper. The European taper widens continually and smoothly from the ferrule toward the joint.

Despite their names, the continually sloping European taper is found in most North American bar and house cues, and not all professional players prefer a straight pro taper on their custom, two-piece models.

Leather tips of varying curvature and degrees of hardness are glued to or in some cases screwed into the ferrule. The de facto standard curvatures for a pool tip are dime - and nickel -radius, determined by shaping a tip so that when one puts a nickel or dime to it, they have the same curvature.

Rounder i. Tips for break and jump cues are usually nickel radius or even flatter, and sometimes made of harder materials such as phenolic resin; the shots are forceful, and usually require less spin.

A leather tip naturally compresses and hardens with subsequent shots. Without proper care, the surface of the tip can develop an undesired smoothness or glossiness which can significantly reduce the desired friction between the tip and the cue ball.

Cue chalk is applied to the tip of the cue, ideally after every other shot or so, to help achieve the desired friction and minimize the chance of a miscue.

This is especially important when the cue tip does not hit the cue ball in its center and thereby imparts spin to the cue ball.

There are different grades of hardness for tips, ranging from very soft to very hard. Harder tips major brands include Blue Diamond Plus, Triangle and Le Professional or "Le Pro" maintain their shape much better, but because of their hardness, chalk tends to not hold as well as it does on softer tips.

The hardness of a leather tip is determined from its compression and tanning during the manufacturing process. All cue tips once were of a one-piece construction, as are many today including LePro and Triangle.

More recently some tips are made of layers that are laminated together major brands include Kamui, Moori and Talisman. Harder tips and laminated tips hold their shape better than softer tips and one-piece tips.

Laminated tips generally cost more than one-piece tips due to their more extensive manufacturing process.

A potential problem with layered tips is delamination, where a layer begins to separate from another or the tip completely comes apart.

One-piece tips are not subject to this problem, but they do tend to mushroom more easily. These days there are synthetic, faux -leather or even rubber cue tips available that have similar playing characteristics to animal-hide tips.

Often these are less affected by moisture and humidity than leather tips, tend less to bulge and mis-shapen, and are suitable substitutes for the average player.

The end of the shaft has a cuff known as the ferrule, which is used to hold the cue tip in place and to bear the brunt of impact with the cue ball so that the less resilient shaft wood does not split.

Ferrules are no longer made of ivory, but, rather, are now made of carbon fiber, or a plastic such as melamine resin , or phenolic resin , which are extremely durable, high-impact materials that are resistant to cracking, chipping, and breaking.

Brass ferrules are sometimes used, especially for snooker cues. Traditional Pool Cues. Modern Cues. Fiberglass Bonded Cues. One Piece House Cues.

Sports Team Cues. Graphite Pool Cues. Limited Edition Cues. Such balk spaces define areas of the table surface in which a player may only score up to a threshold number of points while the object balls are within that region.

For the most part, the differences between one balkline game to another is defined by two measures: the spacing of the balklines and the number of points that are allowed in each balk space before at least one ball must leave the region.

Generally, balkline games and their particular restrictions are given numerical names indicating both of these characteristics; the first number indicated either inches or centimeters depending on the game, and the second, after a dot or a slash, indicates the count restriction in balk spaces, which is always either one or two.

For example, in In its various incarnations, balkline was the predominant carom discipline from to the s, when it was overtaken by three-cushion billiards and pool.

Balkline is still popular in Europe and the Far East. One-cushion carom, or simply cushion carom, also arose in the late s as another alternative to the repetitive play of straight rail, inspired by an early variant of English billiards.

The object of the game is to score cushion caroms, meaning a carom off of both object balls with at least one rail cushion being struck before the hit on the second object ball.

One-cushion carom is still popular in Europe. In three-cushion carom, the object is to carom off both object balls with at least three rail cushions being contacted before the contact of the cue ball with the second object ball.

Three-cushion is a very difficult game. Averaging one point per inning is professional-level play, and averaging 1. Wayman C.

McCreery of St. Louis, Missouri , is credited with popularizing the game in the s. Louis, with McCreery a participant and Leon Magnus the winner.

The high run for the tournament was just 6 points, and the high average a 0. On September 22, , Willie Hoppe , the world's balkline champion who later took up three-cushion with a passion , and Ralph Greenleaf , the world's straight pool title holder, played a well advertised, multi-day, match to points.

Hoppe was the eventual winner with a final score in of — Three-cushion billiards retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America, [1] and is the most popular carom billiards game played in the US today, where pool is far more widespread.

It had been staging world three-cushion championships since the late s. In artistic billiards players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty.