3/4 or 1 piece?

[Homer]

What are the thoughts on 3/4 cues these days?
Seems like everyone wants a one piece, is this cause cars are bigger maybe or just the trend that Ronnie has started?

[Davebarker1978]

What are the thoughts on 3/4 cues these days?
Seems like everyone wants a one piece, is this cause cars are bigger maybe or just the trend that Ronnie has started?

I have owned and used one piece and 3/4 jointed cues and to be perfectly honest if it is a decent 3/4 cue the joints are good as long as they have clean faces on the joints there is little difference, if the cue suits you it suits you regardless of it being a one piece or a 3/4. The shaft flexes the same that is where I can tell if the cue suits me and I still feel feedback through the butt through both types.

There are still quite a few professionals using jointed cues not sure on the number (maybe someone could confirm) but there seems to be alot using 3/4 jointed cues. I don't think Ronnie ever started a trend on one piece cues? These have been around long before he was around.

Some people may say that you feel more feedback through a one piece due to the shaft running through the butt however from what I have learnt over the years is that even one piece cues do not always have a shaft running through to the end of the butt.

Go for what ever feels good for you. If you are having to travel to have a game a 3/4 is alot easier to carry around.

It's a personal choice.

[Homer]

Obs one piece cues have been arpund for a long long time, I was thinking more Ronnie started the move away from the 3/4 joint cue that Jimmy and Davis made popular.
Id imagine the pros travel so much these days that they choose a jointed cue for that reason.
I was thinking that maybe with cars all being alot bigger then people are more accepting of a one piece case. Lets face it a vw polo or a mini is the same size as mk1 golf or an old escort.

[cally]

There isnt much difference in size to one piece and 3/4 when cased up, really..

One piece for me all day .. :snooker:

[Homer]

There isnt much difference in size to one piece and 3/4 when cased up, really..

One piece for me all day .. :snooker:

3/4 fits in the boot tho

[Davebarker1978]

[QUOTE=cally;896368]There isnt much difference in size to one piece and 3/4 when cased up, really..


It is still the difference between it fitting in the boot of my car

[Booters]

Currently using a one piece for the first time, having only used 3/4's before, had it for about 6 months now and won't ever go back to a jointed cue, maybe it's just this specific cue, I can't really comment on other one piece but I definitely get better feel with the 1 piece, my game at close range has improved more in the last 6 months than it has in the last 4 years, has that got anything to do with a joint or lack of? Who knows, plus its nice to just get the cue straight out without putting it together, only takes a couple seconds I know, I just like not having to do it

[Big Splash!]

^ Spot on post.

One piece case goes down the central section of the car from the passenger floor. If you get a plastic tube case, this will usually fit down side of the car; the gap between the central pillar and the passenger seat, so it's not visible and it can also be used as an emergency bo staff. :biggrin-new: Doesn't get in the way of the rear passengers then. I don't see many applying for an artificial knee unless they really need it, so why put a joint in a cue? There is no positive playing reason for doing so.

A lot of the joints move in the timber over time, and even if they don't, after screwing the thing for a few years, the alignment between the two halve goes off perfect. If it arrived perfectly aligned to begin with. Jointed cues lack feel. Parris and similar joints being the worst. A lot of 3/4 jointed cues use a solid butt of hard wood, usually ebony. This has no shaft wood inside; it's a brutal way to make a cue with no feedback. The better 3/4 are made as one-pieces, then split but they still lack feel.

The single collar Powerglide joint back in the 80s (plastic collar) wasn't too bad, had the feel somewhere between a one-piece and a 3/4 brass joint.

I'm sure there are a few cue makers out there who will disagree golfcart!