Re Weighting a Cue

[bolton-cueman]

FOrgive the elementary question... but when people say they've had their cue reweighted.. how do you actually reweight a cue? Do you remove the splices and drill the lead out or remove the butt socket and drill out?

Or even plane the butt and add lighter density splices?

Sounds daft but apart from rebuilding the cue I cant see how you do it

[the lone wolf]

I am probably wrong but the basic idea of re weighting is to go up into the butt end of the cue which can be a problem in some cues that have already been weighted with lead.

However. I'm pretty sure that a competent cue maker could re weight a cue via the re splicing route but this would take more time and a greater skill set.

But I could be completely wrong so perhaps the many experts we are lucky to have here could weigh in?
I love a good pun

[thai_son22]

take out the base joint, adjust the weight and back in

[ebonynivory]

Hi.

Adding weight when it cannot be accessed far enough from the butt is covered by Andy Hunter, Via Dave Bennett channel.

https://youtu.be/fwq8Wm1Q7BU

[anish147]

Hi.

Adding weight when it cannot be accessed far enough from the butt is covered by Andy Hunter, Via Dave Bennett channel.

https://youtu.be/fwq8Wm1Q7BU

You beat me to it - love the series of videos

[the lone wolf]

I like the way he ends the video by saying that this is an alternative way of re balancing a cue... "if you're good enough."

[ebonynivory]

You beat me to it - love the series of videos

Yes I agree, great series of videos Anish.