garczar said:

looks Sampaio-ish.

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That is what it is 99.9%. If you very carefully examine the cue with a magnifying glass at some point you'll find it engraved into the cue actually in the wood.

fjk said:

Wow, 2007. I can't believe it was that long ago; I was there watching and it seemed like 7 or 8 years ago. Never mind that young comment I made, I thought he was mid 20s. Still a good dude though.

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he stays in shape. but he has some gray hair going there on the sides

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This guy's channel has a few kw shaft reviews.

(I've shared this here before so apologies if you've seen it before.)

A (large) number of years ago I was playing a friend at a nearby hall. Next to us was a couple of very early-twenty-somethings. They were having a great time, drinking beer, playing casually, really cutting each other up with pretty funny banter.

One is taking a swig of beer when the other says something particularly funny. Dude makes all these contortions trying not to have beer come out his nose trying not to laugh. Guy struggles with it for a good number of seconds, finally gathers himself up, swallows his beer and says (with PERFECT timing):

"Dude...you almost made me spit out my beer. Then I remembered <pause> ... It's beer!"

garczar said:

its not that loud. you need to try one, only way to find out. i wouldn't order one without a test drive of a KW shaft.

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will do.

dendweller said:

predator doesn't insert a tube, they just core it about a 1/4 of an inch for the first 5 inches. It's hollow. Predator's Z is what the op is trying to match. It's low, and coring does help with deflection. I'd think a cf tube helps make it more stiff and probably more durable than if it would be just cored.

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the fear would be the cored kw. even let's say that it's reinforced with cf tube. the kw could still be susceptible to cracking and it's only held up by epoxy resin. or let's say the kw would act like the bark of a tree wrapped with glue?

skor said:

There is a sound “issue” with mine but I contribute it the tip installed (Kamui Clear Tan Hard) that gave me bad sound on another shaft as well. I need to replace the tip and see if it gets better, I’m sure it will.

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Consider putting a linen sound buffer tip pad on as well if you are going to replace the tip anyway.

garczar said:

in reality you'd probably adjust to the sound pretty quik. its just so different it kinda jarred me.

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I think it doesn't change the way we play but it does create a chuckle (for me atleast) just hearing it. besides, I don't want to be identified in the pool room as the guy with the funny sounding cue. the only times the I heard that tonk sound is whenever my cue comes loose and you know immediately that something is wrong.