Yea, I like your vids. Does not seem to me however you will ever have a cue heavier in the front (insert smart aleck comment here). So, anyhow I got a new cue the balance point is 8 1/4 inches behind the joint. Is this too heavy in the rear? I mean is that normal or what? Thanks. BTW, what kind of shaft you got their? Are they heavier? Thanks.
I use the Revo shaft 12.4. It is slightly lighter than a regular wooden shaft. It isnt necessarily about the cue being heavier in the front but rather the cue being less heavy in the back which changes the balance point. If you use a regular length cue between 18-20 oz, the balance point should be fine. This balance point will change if you A) add an extension on the butt of the cue B) add a midpoint extension like Balance Rite between the joints of the cue or C) take off or put on a ton of weight in the butt of the cue. Besides those three, the balance point should remain relative the same. So your cue is probably fine. However everything is personal preference so may be good to try different weights and possibly an extension if you are a taller person.
Without adjusting the cue's weight bolts, it actually hurts the balance point and shifts it back quite a bit on my cue. So to compensate, I removed most of the weight bolts, so that my cue is very very light. Then with the extension, the balance point is only minimally changed from its original position
In practice this may feel correct but the physics of what you are saying is theoretically not true. To have minimum weight felt (meaning by the back arm) this would mean the weight would have the balance point exactly at the point where your hand is on the table. This would mean that the balance point is shifted super far forward, so far forward that the balance point would actually be about midway on the shaft of the cue
