Thanks a lot. Yeah I quess Revo shaft would look nice in the pair but short for my extra length cue. I'm more curious how will my future shaft play
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Thanks a lot. Yeah I quess Revo shaft would look nice in the pair but short for my extra length cue. I'm more curious how will my future shaft play
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I like your imagination and the name:smile:.
The shaft is still in work. I'll share the pictures as soon as it's finished.
Some pictures of the future shaft in progress.
On the joint end there is a phenolic insert where brass female sits with 8" carbon fiber rod going into the insert so it is one solid piece inside the shaft. The idea was fairly simple so as my shaft is 2" longer I did not want it lose its stiffness. On the other end there is 7" carbon fiber tube. There will be no ferrule but just T-shape pad sitting in the tube. We'll see how it works when is ready. Very curious about it but some patience is needed. I'm turning the shaft slowly but surely to the final taper. I quess two more turnings with some time between to try it finally in play.
On the joint end there is a phenolic insert where brass female sits with 8" carbon fiber rod going into the insert so it is one solid piece inside the shaft. The idea was fairly simple so as my shaft is 2" longer I did not want it lose its stiffness. On the other end there is 7" carbon fiber tube. There will be no ferrule but just T-shape pad sitting in the tube. We'll see how it works when is ready. Very curious about it but some patience is needed. I'm turning the shaft slowly but surely to the final taper. I quess two more turnings with some time between to try it finally in play.
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Bad ass man should play pretty sporty.
We'll see fairly soon:wink:
The happiest playing day
After three very long months of waiting for final turning down it's finally completed today and of course I was so curious to find out how it plays that I went to our pool hall immediately to test it. All I can say I'm just absolutely satisfied with how the shaft alone and the cue together turned out. I love the hit, the taper and the feedback. I got just what I wanted to. It's stiff enough for my taste and has very similar deflection with 314/2 but better feedback and that's being 31" long. I'm also satisfied with the weight of the finished shaft. It's 4,65oz and the cue together weighs 21oz. Not a bad result for 62" cue with such hard and heavy woods in it. And from now I'm a ferrule less fan
After three very long months of waiting for final turning down it's finally completed today and of course I was so curious to find out how it plays that I went to our pool hall immediately to test it. All I can say I'm just absolutely satisfied with how the shaft alone and the cue together turned out. I love the hit, the taper and the feedback. I got just what I wanted to. It's stiff enough for my taste and has very similar deflection with 314/2 but better feedback and that's being 31" long. I'm also satisfied with the weight of the finished shaft. It's 4,65oz and the cue together weighs 21oz. Not a bad result for 62" cue with such hard and heavy woods in it. And from now I'm a ferrule less fan
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Beautiful cue! Definitely makes me want to look into making cues.
It's the honour to use the co-invention of such a great cuemaker in my cue. Thanks for your kind words.
Thanks for your compliments.
After one week of playing with completed cue it seems that in spite of some issues with my neck and back with a new cue I start to enjoy the game again like it was in the very beginning. It is just much easier to make most shots I had some troubles with because now I have just enough length with comfortable balance and can easily reach any shot on the table. The cue is just extremely stiff and has a great feedback. I reached also one of my major goal by building the shaft being 2' longer than standard but also stiffer than all the shafts I used to play and try. So I can't be happier with how the cue plays, feels and sounds. Here are two short videos with two standard drills for rotation games. Now it is much easier to complete them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GETwjn3MSZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimtnnWgbSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GETwjn3MSZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimtnnWgbSw
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Thanks for your compliments. There were quite a few things I tried first time when I built this cue but I remember my teacher's favorite rule very good and it's simple as it could be.. "learning by doing". This is how I found what cue's length works the best for me for example. The video might be helpful for those such tall players as me who also feels the lack of the standard length cue and want to figure out what will fit them. Here you can see how 62' cue looks in hands of 6'5 tall man.
I’m 6’1 and play with a 60” cue and it fits me perfectly. Here is a video of me practicing with my 60” JMW(though I’m a big fat guy lol):
https://youtu.be/1kCawfLMUQI
I believe you have very beautiful and good hitting cue from such a great cuemaker and yeah it looks like it fits you fairly well. Good run out in the first rack btw.
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It's getting redundant, but cannot be said too often: very, very impressive cue! Construction, design, choice of woods, ... superb!
I'm in the process of making a cue for myself as well (a one-piece 60" hand spliced snooker/pool hybrid), but I'm not yet sure about what type of ferrule to use. Was also considering going ferrule less, which brings me to my question:
Could you share a little more information on that "T-shape" pad you used? Is it a cylinder with a smaller tenon that fits right into the shaft? If so, is it glued only, or threaded/screwed into the shaft? How far is the tenon going into the shaft?
If you had a picture of the pad before installation, that would also be lovely..
Thank you in advance!
I'm in the process of making a cue for myself as well (a one-piece 60" hand spliced snooker/pool hybrid), but I'm not yet sure about what type of ferrule to use. Was also considering going ferrule less, which brings me to my question:
... And from now I'm a ferrule less fan
Could you share a little more information on that "T-shape" pad you used? Is it a cylinder with a smaller tenon that fits right into the shaft? If so, is it glued only, or threaded/screwed into the shaft? How far is the tenon going into the shaft?
If you had a picture of the pad before installation, that would also be lovely..
Thank you in advance!
Thanks for your kind words.
With regards to that T-shape pad... It is pretty simple: black phenolic pad 2 mm thick with short tenon (4-5 mm) and 6 mm in diameter. This tenon goes inside the carbon fiber tube in the shaft (glued only). So this pad substitues the common ferrule. On top of this pad I put a common pad out of brown phenolic 1-1,2 mm thick in order not to worry during the tip change.
After building two more shafts (wood out of the same board of hard maple) but with small ferrules out of tomahawk material for LD properties I can say my ferrule less shaft has different hit feeling and sound (crisp). So the ferrule depending of the material used may soften the hit. Here you can see some pictures of another shaft I've built with the same pad https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?p=6219698#post6219698
I wish you all the best with your project).
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