Ben Mertens cue

[taipafan]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aRp2U6QfK1AGZ5Vy5

His cue shaft is not made by one piece of wood, but layers merged together.
How to call this?

[ken147]

It's called laminated cue.

[Cue crafty]

Not all stories about them are good. https://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/bo...-falling-apart

[taipafan]

Not all stories about them are good. https://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/bo...-falling-apart

Maybe using the wrong glue?
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In late 90' I fixed over 10 John Parris red glue 3/4 cues, that their joins were loosed, just used some AA glue, problem solved. (there were only about 20+ JP cues sold to the snooker club at that time)

[Delphi]

Ben is using his Peradon cue, he's obviously happy with it otherwise he'll be looking for a change, Hendry's cue was a cheap one too and it didn't stop him.

[Mark187187]

Ben is using his Peradon cue, he's obviously happy with it otherwise he'll be looking for a change, Hendry's cue was a cheap one too and it didn't stop him.

The Peradon Newbury isn't that cheap. About £450-500 new, which isn't much different to other cue maker's all ebony butt cues.

[vmax]

It's called laminated cue.

In other words plywood

[Cue crafty]

Didn't work that well with split cane fishing rods either did it. Some people love them though.

[taipafan]

Plywood, we can combine any material with wood.
A layer or two with metals, carbon fiber, plastic, empty space, tube of half filled mercury,...
Then we can have those benefits like low deflection, steady smooth motion with mercury..., and have a feeling of woods.
Can we?

[Mark187187]

I've got a nine ball cue which came with 2 laminated shafts. No problem with either, been using them for about 10 years. The advantage of making cue shafts this way is that if you buy 2 of the same shaft, they are much closer in how they play. I can't easily tell which shaft I'm using unless I'm trying out different tips on each. I'd rather invest an extra couple of hundred quid in a spare of a shaft that I like than have the prospect of buying a whole new cue if an idiot at the club knocks my stuff over.

[itsnoteasy]

Aren't the nine ball cues radially laminated like segments of a pizza? I think to get the arrow effect the snooker cues are layers like plywood.

[DeanH]

Aren't the nine ball cues radially laminated like segments of a pizza? I think to get the arrow effect the snooker cues are layers like plywood.

I belive you are correct.

[Mark187187]

Aren't the nine ball cues radially laminated like segments of a pizza? I think to get the arrow effect the snooker cues are layers like plywood.

Yes, I think that's correct. It looks just like any other maple shaft though. Other than the Peradon looking more like a 'traditional' cue, I think they would have been better off doing the same.

[vmax]

Aren't the nine ball cues radially laminated like segments of a pizza? I think to get the arrow effect the snooker cues are layers like plywood.

With the exception that the grain goes the same way, in plywood it's opposed in order to give stength but in a cue shaft it would prove to be weak with the grain going across the shaft rather than down the length of it.
I fail to see the point of it to be honest, just more silver bullet low deflection bollocks for poor players who can't cue straight anyway, like Dr. Dave Altidore, the Sheldon Cooper of sidespin who has a stance like a giraffe taking a drink and has to prove his theories with shots into five inch wide pockets from two feet away, yet still bounces the cue ball

[itsnoteasy]

With the exception that the grain goes the same way, in plywood it's opposed in order to give stength but in a cue shaft it would prove to be weak with the grain going across the shaft rather than down the length of it.
I fail to see the point of it to be honest, just more silver bullet low deflection bollocks for poor players who can't cue straight anyway, like Dr. Dave Altidore, the Sheldon Cooper of sidespin who has a stance like a giraffe taking a drink and has to prove his theories with shots into five inch wide pockets from two feet away, yet still bounces the cue ball

"Stance like a giraffe taking a drink" probably the greatest line I have read on here.