What do you guys look for in good shaft wood? I know ring count - color . What would be your rule of thumb if I put 100 blanks in front of you or a couple 5/4 boards and told you to pick 5?
What do you guys look for in good shaft wood? I know ring count - color . What would be your rule of thumb if I put 100 blanks in front of you or a couple 5/4 boards and told you to pick 5?
Grain runoff for the most part, dont really care about color. Sugar marks, high ring count is nice but not that important to me.
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Picking from squares/boards is a crapshoot .
Turn them round and let sit for a while.
Picking the best after that is much more accurate.
I don't know if all your cues are the same, but a guy over here has one of your cues and I ALWAYS comment on how perfect the shaft is. It is top quality wood and super smooth.
I would look for the dowel being straight, straight grain and tight grain. I would also look for it being clean of sugar or mineral marks. Then I would weigh it and want heavier weight.
Clean of sugar and mineral marks for what reason? Purely aesthetic or quality?
If it's straight grained, has the "tone" and probably most important doesn't move after it gets to 560 on the business end, the rest is purely aesthetics.
Certainly not going to put one into service that is peppered with mineral or sugar but I'm not going discount it on 1 or 2 minute marks.