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Iwishiwasrich said:

Contact Sickles Custom Cues. Google or Facebook several people local to me play with his KW shafts and speak highly of them. Jim Sickles has been building custom cues for years and does high quality work.

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What I’ve found is lots of cue makers can build or will sell you a KW shaft but very, very few can build one the way I want. I’ve been waiting 3 months for the two I ordered from Jacoby that was optimistic they could build a heavier KW shaft. Just learned today the first shaft came in weighing 3.6 ozs. which is really just the average weight for a KW shaft. So despite their eagerness and confidence to build the KW shafts, it did not turn out as expected or how I was hoping.

So if cue maker is not already making a KW shaft that is heavier than average, I am not disposed to just call every cue
maker someone knows unless they had already built a KW shaft that is heavier than average KW shaft & I know the #s.
I already did that months ago making many calls which taught me to be more selective about cue makers to contact.

is the wrapless one solid piece?

Black-Balled said:

I only read op once, but isn't Ned your guy for the shafts?

He is certainly a competent cue man and can do whatever man can do with a cue, man.

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Just wrote to Ned asking if he can build two heavier version KW shafts like the one on eBay that weighs 4.3 ozs.

I had a local builder plug and tap my Barnhart KW to a 3/8×10 modified pin. Works great and plays the same as it did before.That's always an option if you have someone you trust to do the work.

JasonATX said:

Since you like the one you have, perhaps you could order the shafts from Superior without being cut for the pin and have a local cue maker tap it for you to your specs.

Otherwise: Jim Pierce builds a good KW shaft, and the Diveney Trans K is good as well. Perhaps one of them can build one out for you.

Hsunami is probably the best, but they are expensive.

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Thanks Jason for the suggestions. I’ve contacted Pat and Jim and asked if they felt up to tackling
what I want built. Now it’s wait and see what they think. Jacoby is no longer being considered.

I have two.
One is wrap and other is wrapless. 1200 each with one shaft.
Wrap is EE from Richard hsu.

I have some small pieces of Simonis from recovering my old table. I just keep a scrap in my case and wipe down the tips.
Probably have a few of the hardware store 1/2 inch covers somewhere, with a tip pick, moose bridge and chalk holder that I never use....

I think there are too many eyes watching fir anyone to wax the balls. At our home tables which are 6 Olhausen Grand Champions tables and 6 sets of Aramith balls. We would run them thru every morning thru the high speed ball cleaner and spray 75% alcohol solution and clean the balls. Our reasoning was to rid the balls of oils and left over grim from people handling the balls the previous day. I watched all the matches and I think Kacli needs to apologize to the Phillipino players for insinuating that they cheat. He just got waxed, not the cue ball.