Pia Filler hates wood shafts
- By lfigueroa
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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