Making a Pool Cue, Playing Cue w/ a LD Shaft and a Break Cue w/ a Purpleheart Shaft

What's going on YouTube, today's video I'm going to be making a break cue. I got these cue blanks from my cousin and he ordered these blanks from Schmucky. As you can see he ordered a cocobolo wood with maple. This one just has a more reddish tint to it and this one is just a brownish tint to it. I'm going to be turning these blanks into breaking cues and I'm going to be mating them with a purple hard shaft. For the tip, I'm going to be using a jump break hollow tip. This is the tip itself. This is going to be the ferrule, it's going to be a G10 pin, it's a radial pin. This is going to be the butt cap and this is a southwest style bumper. For me, what I'm going to be using to cut the wood itself, I ordered this cutter. This came from Cue Components and this is the attachment to it, it goes onto the router. Before we go ahead and do any cutting and mating, let's go ahead and weigh the blanks and take the diameters of the blanks itself. Before I weigh the cue, let's go ahead and take the measurement of the length of the blanks itself. Let's go ahead first with the first blank. You can see this one is a little bit over 30 inches and this one also is a little bit off 30 inches. I'm going to be making a 29 inch cue. Let's go ahead and take the weight of this blank. This blank weighs 19.4 ounces. This one is a lot heavier than the purple heart I made for a plain cue. The purple heart blank I had was 16.3 and this blank weighs at 20.35 ounces. Let's go ahead and take the diameter. This one is on millimeters so this is 26 millimeters and 36 millimeters on this one, 26.5 and 36 on the back. Let's go ahead and weigh the purple heart. The first blank weighs 18.5 ounces and the second blank weighs 7.8 ounces. This is what I'll be working with. This is 17.7 millimeters, 17.74 millimeters and of course the back end is 24.4 millimeters and 24.34 millimeters. Let's go ahead and take the measurement of the length of these blanks. This one is a little bit shy off 30 inches and a little bit shy off, this one is a little bit longer than 30 inches. So they're about 30 inches long so I'm going to make this into 29 inches and the total length of the pull cue should be 58 inches. Let's go ahead and take the measurement of the length of these blanks. So I'm going to make this into 29 inches and the total length of the pull cue should Let's go ahead and take the measurement of the length of these blanks. I finished making the cues. I made a break cue and I actually made a plain cue. This is how the break cue turned out. This is the one and I put my cousin's name on it, G-O-G-I-O and this is the shaft that it comes with. This is the purple heart and this is for my friend. I put his name Jesse on it and this is actually a plain cue and you can see this is the shaft that goes with it. So let's go ahead and do the weights of these cues and do the measurements and test out how it plays and how it breaks. Let's go ahead and weigh the cue. This is the break cue. As you can see the butt itself weighs 15.05 ounces and the shaft weighs 4.45 ounces and together it makes a total of 19.50 ounces. So it's a pretty heavy break cue but it should work especially if you want to convert this into a plain cue. This would be a nice plain cue. This is the reason why I made this into a plain cue because it hits really nice and this one weighs at 13.7 ounces and with the shaft it's 13.65 ounces and together the total weighs 17.40 ounces. So let's go ahead and measure the tip. This is the purple heart for the break. As you can see I got it at 13.35, excuse me, let's do that again, yep 13.3 for millimeters on the tip for the break and I got this one at 12.9 millimeters. So the plain cue is almost 13 millimeters and the break cue is above 13 millimeters. I got the total length for the cue itself from the end all the way to the butt itself on the joint. The butt cap is 29 inches and the shaft itself is a little bit over 29, just a little bit over 29. And then for the plain cue I got it at 29 and for the shaft itself a little bit over 29. So I got the shafts a little bit over the length just in case they want it a little bit longer but if they always wanted, like I always wanted a standard butt length so it's 29 inches. So you can always put a different shaft on it and it will feel the same. So if you check out the straightness of these shafts, this is the plain shaft, as you can see it wobbles, this is the tip, you can see how straight it is. So the lay I used is actually really nice and really accurate so you can see how straight it is, no wobbles and how it mates and this is how it looks together and then this is the break cue itself and we'll test that. It has a little bit of a taper roll, you can see on the purple heart itself but when it rolls on the table you can see how straight it rolls. So let's go ahead and test this out, I'm going to go ahead and test out the break cue, I'm going to do a 10 ball break, 9 ball break, any 10 ball break and then we'll do a deflection test and some shots with the plain cue. This horo tip and this purple heart actually makes a nice break cue, also with the purple heart what I did is I made a straight taper on this almost to 17 inches up to here and then I tapered it out so that it hits a nice plain joint and with the straight taper it makes a nice smooth feeling especially for your 9 ball break, your 8 ball break and your 10 ball breaks. Now we've got the plain cue, let's go ahead and do a leg shot so we can hear how it sounds and see how it feels. The cue feels not bad, let's go ahead and test out the deflection, I'm going to also compare this to the Revo 12.9 and the 12.4. So let's go ahead and test out the deflection on this shot, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit extreme right on the cue ball and see how far it deflects off the center diamond. This is going to be a firm hit. So if I'm going to compare this to my Revo 12.9 and my 12.4 what I like to do is actually go off the rail and get this cue ball close to the rail itself and aim in at the pocket and see how far it deflects off this rail, so let's go ahead and do that now. For this deflection test I got the cue ball on the rail and I'm going to hit extreme right on the cue ball itself and see how far it deflects off the rail. So I'm going to go ahead and change out the shaft, this is going to be the Revo, this is the 12.9, and let's do a deflection test on this. And this one is the 12.4, so I got the Revo installed to this plain cue, as you can see the cue itself, how straight it is when you roll it on the table, there's no wobble, that's why I like the carbon shaft, so he decided to change it to a carbon shaft and the cue is perfect to mate with any other shaft, so, and you can see the joint, so, now let's go ahead and do a regular shot with these, let's do a stop shot, a force follow, and a draw shot. So this one is going to be a stop shot, this is going to be a draw shot, and this one is going to be a follow shot. I did a brief review on the cues I made on the break cue and on the plain cue, hopefully this video was informative. If you haven't already, hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, and leave a comment down below. Thank you for watching and see you next time. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe me, don't forget the thumbs up. Bye bye. I did a brief review on these cues, I did a...