garczar said:

Pure'n one with forged blades is chubbie material. Nothin like it.

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G, I've always loved the hit/sound Ivory joint and ferrule cues make!

Plenty of feedback with this combo!

garczar said:

Pure'n one with forged blades is chubbie material. Nothin like it.

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Facts.

HawaiianEye said:

Is this a record point score by any chance for a set of this length?

If not, who scored higher?

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I imagine the WST stats guy would know. Maybe not a record. It could have gone 6-5 and Ronnie could have scored more in his losses.

Michael Webb said:

Agreed, that's why I started making my own.
Not the same as thiers and I didn't want them to be.

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And then you've got guys that *think* they can make wood ferrules.....

Customer wanted to use it as a break stick so I fixed it up (with a new tenon as well) .....

fastone371 said:

I would say that that is the exact polar opposite of how Schons hit. They are in my back yard so I have had a few and hit many.

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My backyard too. Although I’ve never been to the actually facility.

Maybe my memory is fooling me. I don’t remember my schons hitting hard.

CeaseLess said:

Are there any cue makers that make a cue with softer, more subtle or buttery hit?

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Buy McDermott Defy shaft now!
McDermott designed that shaft to be softer with a non-carbon-fiber sound. They did that by using special carbon-fiber rod or a CF coating to absorb vibration. McDermott succeeded. See YouTube videos of a Defy shaft dropped on a pool table and not bouncing. This is unusual and, as Dr Dave and Bob Jewett have shown, this can be made into a test of energy transfer efficiency of hit to cue ball. Players swear by the Defy shaft and speak of its soft hit. I think this is what you are looking for in your softer, more subtle or buttery hit.

This sounds wrong to me but your request sounds exactly why McDermott did what it did with its Defy (less the need for a non-boinking sound).

McDermott's description of the CF used in Defy:

• SmacWrap, originally designed for the aerospace industry, absorbs vibration and dampens noise resulting in a confident hit with a soft feel and quiet sound

YouTuber pleasantly surprised at Defy's no-bounce shaft:

Bob Jewett's and Dr Dave's easy bounce test for energy efficiency:

AZers speak of the soft (buttery?) Defy hit:

Amazing!!!

Is this the same thing as last year? The WNT World Pool Championship and this WST Snooker event piggy backed off of each other? Were they both in the same venue?

Was Ronnie trying to make longer a one piece extension at about the 3min mark?

Well he got 2 going to 6 today. Going to 10 tomorrow 3 seems possible.
For sure I will be watching. What ever time it will be here when it starts.