Pia Filler hates wood shafts

Over 15 years ago, I used to travel a lot to Hong Kong. I met there a few guys from AZB, and every time I would come, we would meet and play. I never travelled with a cue and just used a house cue. My friends always offer me cues to play with. I did use their high-end cues (SW, Szam, BB, etc.), but I always fear damaging them, so I went back to a house cue.

During one visit, I bought a cue at the pool hall (A Dominiak Sweet 16).
After a few sessions at the pool hall and walking back and forth to my hotel and then travelling back home while the cue was stored in a Zero Halliburton case, both the shaft and butt warped a bit.

There are countries that are humid enough to damage maple.

I haven't touched my cues in, like, 15 years; all are stored upright in cases in a closet. Now, after 15 years, getting back to the game, I pulled them all out; a few of them are warped.

So sorry, but not BS...

BS.

You could take a well made maple shaft into a sauna, wipe it down, and it'll be fine.

Here in the States, the most humid conditions you're likely to encounter is a pool room in Louisiana where they're boiling a big tub of crawdads in the back. The tables are certainly going to play goofy but your maple shaft... not so much.

Lou Figueroa

Pia Filler hates wood shafts

You can play with any cue and shaft.
Top players have done so for decades.

But, It doesn’t mean that just because something has been done for years, you shouldn’t embrace new things that are better and make life and playing pool easier. Or at least give it a good solid try before making up your mind and throw baseless facts in the air.

Most people don’t give anything a fair try, you might think that running a few racks is enough or setting up a few shots to make a solid opinion, But all you do is letting everything that you are used to, take over.
Play with a good CF shaft for 3-6 months, the. Go back to what you were used to, only then, you’ll know what works best for you.
Play with keilwood shaft for 3-6 month and again, go nack to what you were used to.
Same for every piece of equipment.

CF is the future, might as well get used to it.
This not for collectors, this is for players.
I think that kielwood is a hype that will pass, doesn’t come close to CF in performance. It’s just pretty…
If you are 75 years old and have enough wooden shaft to last until you’re dead, that’s fine, but that’s just being a grumpy old man, got nothing to do with pool.
Yes, there are pros that still use wood and prefer wood, that’s fine, they are just delaying the inevitable and prefer not to put in the time to get used to it.

CF is the future for the manufactures selling CF shafts.

And please save the "new is automatically better" argument because it ain't necessarily so. Many experienced players will tell you the feedback from a maple shaft -- in terms of feel, sound, and vibration -- cannot be duplicated with a CF shaft because it feels so dead.

Lou Figueroa
and don't even get me
started with examples
of new being better, lol

Funny pic/gif thread...

No worries here , I know here in Montana we've got sturgeon that can reach 20' + in Fort Peck and then Flathead Lake but they are rarely ever seen or caught for that matter once they reach that size .

I've caught much small sturgeon and released them right away as they are a slow growing fish that hasn't changed much in the past 1000 years or so ha ha

Florida Open 2025, August 5-10, Orlando, Caribe Royale

Hopefully today's players learned from yesterday's players, realize they've got a very good thing with Matchroom and don't do anything stupid to screw it up. I don't think Matchroom would want to get wrapped up in tax evasion issues with any country. I think they have the right and authority to ban a player for unsavory tactics. I'd be shocked if the contracts they signed does not have a clause in it to that effect.

Deflection question, explain how a stiffer CF shaft has less deflection.

I'll buy this when I see scrimshawed microchips and hand carved F1 motors.
Well, it's not the whole chip, but I think this qualifies for the first part....

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One of the first chips I worked on was code named Jupiter, and an engineer figured out how to make an image of Jupiter on the chip complete with the Great Red Spot.

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