What is your preferred shaft size for a regular maple, pro taper shaft (not LD)? 12.75mm seems fairly popular, along with 13 mm.
Preferred Shaft Size (Regular Maple)
- Thread starter Dr_CollieCue
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12.8
12.80 dense maple, 15 in pro taper, plastic or juma ferrule
I would like to go to the smaller ferrule on my next shafts.
12.80 dense maple, 15 in pro taper, plastic or juma ferrule
I would like to go to the smaller ferrule on my next shafts.
11.5-11.75
Size
13mm. or the new Pred. Vantage at 12.9mm
13mm. or the new Pred. Vantage at 12.9mm
I've pretty much settled on 12.5'ish. Just feels "right"
After much experimentation, I found that the taper has as much to do with my satisfaction playing with the cue as the shaft sizes.
I like 13mm shafts but only if there's a long pro taper like with my Scruggs cue's shafts but I prefer to play with shafts 12.65-12.8mm.
That's the best shaft size range for me but 13mm is perfectly acceptable too as long as it's not a short taper.
My Bob Owen cue has 3 perfect shafts (2 the same size and 1 a little bigger) and the cue Jerry R. has just about completed will have
the same size shafts........12.65-12.8 size fits for my bridge hand really tight & feels good in my fingers and also looks better to my eye
when I aim to decide how much English to apply on any given shot.
Matt B.
I like 13mm shafts but only if there's a long pro taper like with my Scruggs cue's shafts but I prefer to play with shafts 12.65-12.8mm.
That's the best shaft size range for me but 13mm is perfectly acceptable too as long as it's not a short taper.
My Bob Owen cue has 3 perfect shafts (2 the same size and 1 a little bigger) and the cue Jerry R. has just about completed will have
the same size shafts........12.65-12.8 size fits for my bridge hand really tight & feels good in my fingers and also looks better to my eye
when I aim to decide how much English to apply on any given shot.
Matt B.
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:yikes:
But on the Vantage shaft, only the tip is 12.9 and the shaft itself is at least 13.25mm.
:frown:
Me too. I thought there would be a lot of 12.75-13mm, with some slightly smaller, but it seems that most prefer a shaft that is much smaller.
