The cue shaft spine, which exists in all cylindrical items, refers to the single place in the shaft that bends the least; it is the certain place in the three hundred-sixty degree circumference of a shaft that will present more opposition than anywhere else in the shaft. As a rule, the point that bends the most in the shaft is approximately one hundred-eighty degree - opposite to the spine.
The exact identical shot, performed many times, will respond differently on account of the shaft's spine. This happens in play merely owing to a player turning the pool cue in his hand, in effect rotating the shaft's spine into a different position with each shot. The pool cue's deflection may be diminished or amplified in relation to the alignment of the spine as the cue ball reacts to the shaft's inflexibility or flexibility at the point of impact.
In England, snooker, which is played on a larger table with tinier balls and with a number of shots being 13 ft away, will definitely exhibit the spine of a cue stick shaft. Fortunately, tradition in England stipulates that a flat place be cut into the surface of the pool cue at the bottom of the butt. Snooker players always keep the flat place in the palm of their rear hand when stroking, which guarantees that the position of the grain and the shaft's spine will be in the identical position with each shot. This pattern enables the player to make allowances for the quantity of variations triggered by a cue with a more visible spine.
If spine alignment is not paid attention to when bonding the head of a golf club to a graphite or fiberglass shaft, the club will never play reliably. Every club in the bag will strike the ball in a different way if the manufacturer does not bear in mind the importance of the spine position. A few materials, for example tubular steel employed in golf shafts, are uniform in nature and have a virtually inconspicuous spine; despite the fact that other materials, like fiberglass or graphite, have a evident spine.
As for pool cues, the majority high-end cue sticks, are manufactured with maple shafts that are much more uniform than graphite or fiberglass styles. Yet, each piece of wood will undeniably have a spine that is calculable and recognizable in the hands of a accomplished player.
The stiffer a cue shaft is, the greater the variation amid the most rigid and bendable section of the shaft. Accordingly, the cue can respond very differently from hitting a ball with low, high, right or left just by the location of the more noticeable spine within the billiard's shaft.
A shaft's wood integrity can disintegrate over time and the shaft can lose it's capacity to snap back in time to correct for swerve. Therefore, while new the billiard cue reacts as it supposed to nevertheless eventually it becomes too flexible. One approach to stop this degradation, so that the shaft will maintain the proper flex that doesn't wear down and will keep it's spring, is to be certain it has 6 or more aligned grain lines crosswise on a thirteen mm shaft. This tight grain indicates that the wood was taken from middle of the wood log where the older growth is found. This more mature growth adds to the stability of the cue shaft. An extra manufacturing approach is to in essence generate these grain lines, like what is found in the Black Dot Bullseye shaft by Meucci, in which 35 flat maple veneers are glued together and then turned round, forming greater than twenty grain lines that run parallel end to end the length of the shaft. Additionally, the tighter grained shaft has a less discernible spine.
There is a different method that some cue builders have tried to deal with the problem of the spine being askew. The objective is to craft a spine that is perfectly centered in the shaft, but unfortunately, the very thing they wish to minimize, creates a more definite spine that is off-center. The intention is to cut a shaft into pie pieces and then reconstruct it with the grain radiating from the center. Unfortunately, no pool cuemaker that the pie piece shaft is less likely\probable to warp after a while, the point is that the less consistent spine ends up to be off center.
A player must remember that all cue sticks have a spine and no cue builder has been able to consistently offer a billiard cue with exact radial consistency. A skillful player will know with the reaction of his equipment and make corrections for the spine of his billiard cue. Graphite or fiberglass shafts have the most significant spine, pie piece shafts have the next, and finally the natural solid or flat laminated maple shafts have the least.
The exact identical shot, performed many times, will respond differently on account of the shaft's spine. This happens in play merely owing to a player turning the pool cue in his hand, in effect rotating the shaft's spine into a different position with each shot. The pool cue's deflection may be diminished or amplified in relation to the alignment of the spine as the cue ball reacts to the shaft's inflexibility or flexibility at the point of impact.
In England, snooker, which is played on a larger table with tinier balls and with a number of shots being 13 ft away, will definitely exhibit the spine of a cue stick shaft. Fortunately, tradition in England stipulates that a flat place be cut into the surface of the pool cue at the bottom of the butt. Snooker players always keep the flat place in the palm of their rear hand when stroking, which guarantees that the position of the grain and the shaft's spine will be in the identical position with each shot. This pattern enables the player to make allowances for the quantity of variations triggered by a cue with a more visible spine.
If spine alignment is not paid attention to when bonding the head of a golf club to a graphite or fiberglass shaft, the club will never play reliably. Every club in the bag will strike the ball in a different way if the manufacturer does not bear in mind the importance of the spine position. A few materials, for example tubular steel employed in golf shafts, are uniform in nature and have a virtually inconspicuous spine; despite the fact that other materials, like fiberglass or graphite, have a evident spine.
As for pool cues, the majority high-end cue sticks, are manufactured with maple shafts that are much more uniform than graphite or fiberglass styles. Yet, each piece of wood will undeniably have a spine that is calculable and recognizable in the hands of a accomplished player.
The stiffer a cue shaft is, the greater the variation amid the most rigid and bendable section of the shaft. Accordingly, the cue can respond very differently from hitting a ball with low, high, right or left just by the location of the more noticeable spine within the billiard's shaft.
A shaft's wood integrity can disintegrate over time and the shaft can lose it's capacity to snap back in time to correct for swerve. Therefore, while new the billiard cue reacts as it supposed to nevertheless eventually it becomes too flexible. One approach to stop this degradation, so that the shaft will maintain the proper flex that doesn't wear down and will keep it's spring, is to be certain it has 6 or more aligned grain lines crosswise on a thirteen mm shaft. This tight grain indicates that the wood was taken from middle of the wood log where the older growth is found. This more mature growth adds to the stability of the cue shaft. An extra manufacturing approach is to in essence generate these grain lines, like what is found in the Black Dot Bullseye shaft by Meucci, in which 35 flat maple veneers are glued together and then turned round, forming greater than twenty grain lines that run parallel end to end the length of the shaft. Additionally, the tighter grained shaft has a less discernible spine.
There is a different method that some cue builders have tried to deal with the problem of the spine being askew. The objective is to craft a spine that is perfectly centered in the shaft, but unfortunately, the very thing they wish to minimize, creates a more definite spine that is off-center. The intention is to cut a shaft into pie pieces and then reconstruct it with the grain radiating from the center. Unfortunately, no pool cuemaker that the pie piece shaft is less likely\probable to warp after a while, the point is that the less consistent spine ends up to be off center.
A player must remember that all cue sticks have a spine and no cue builder has been able to consistently offer a billiard cue with exact radial consistency. A skillful player will know with the reaction of his equipment and make corrections for the spine of his billiard cue. Graphite or fiberglass shafts have the most significant spine, pie piece shafts have the next, and finally the natural solid or flat laminated maple shafts have the least.
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Bit confused. Seems like maple shafts have two spines opposite each other (or is it one spine that passes through the wood and is visible where it emerges on each side. So 180 degrees from spine is more spine. Also just noticed every pie slice of my 314² is composed of spine wood.
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