Snooker verterens help! on handspliced snooker cues?

Question

Im recently been seeing people selling apparantly "handspliced" snooker cues but they are indeed found out to be painted.

I was just wondering if anyone knows how to spot a handspliced cue without having to chip the wood (just in case it is really handspliced and you end up wrecking the cue up)

Answer 1

The butt of a machine spliced cue will have the splices of the butt tapering into a point, whereas a hand spliced cue will be more rounded splices into the shaft of the cue.

Answer 2

Ask before you buy

:)

Answer 3

always check before buying