The Truth About Cues, Part 5 By Roger Long I ended my last article by relating how changing from my old Rich to a new Scruggs had made a...

The Truth About Cues, Part Four In my last article I mentioned that there are three standard joints used in cues: 5/16-14, 5/16-18, and...

The Truth About Cues, Part Three The main point I’ve stressed so far in this series is that the less you put into a cue, the more you ...

In this industry we are all looking for that competitive edge.  In the end your stroke and creativity on the table is the only thing that...

For those of you that like the forward weighted breaking cues there are some options.  The idea is that the forward weight stabilizes the...

I’ve been using Predator S-Tuned Z2s exclusively for years as, in my opinion, they were the best LD shafts produced… until now! I just...

Imagine that the cue ball and the object ball are lined up straight and both very close to the end rail. You need to get position for the...

Have you ever heard anyone arguing over pool rules? First of all there are hundreds of different rules for pool and different games of...

The arm with which we hold the back part of the cue is the arm that forms the catch or the grip of the cue. We should answer some...

As a longtime Viking fan ( all of about 12 years ) with a standard or maple shaft, I recently purchased a custom Pechauer JP17L cue. At...

Throughout my pool-playing career I have had the opportunity to play with a variety of low deflection shafts. This month I was asked by...

For all of human recorded history and even well before we were able to make records of our activities, humans have used the skins of...

You will rarely find a full spliced cue broken in the forearm area where the different sections of wood have been spliced or joined...