Lol I think players mechanics are stronger now then they’ve ever been. They have to be for 4 inch pockets. The consistency of today’s players kicks and banks is 10x above what they were doing then. It has to be. Saying today’s players don’t have a stroke is wild lol

garczar said:

For that kinda dough it outta be straight together or apart. Sounds to me like facings need to be trued up.

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For that kind of money, send it back and get a straight cue...It's already in your head.

Beautiful cue brother, not sure if you’d be interested in trades but I’d trade ya a killed Jamie Crouch wrapless and a Tony Layne killer playing cue loaded with pure silver in the rings for it

One thing that might hold water is with the skates, the stick gets gravitationally torqued in unnatural ways so I may not quit.

I bought cue skates and stuff that air rolled picture perfect oscillates to one degree or another.

I'm going to quit pool.

Mensabum said:

Checkered flag, not the caution.

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The one I liked to ignore was the black flag. The flagman held it out but didn't wave it around so I ignored it. All I was doing was giving one driver a friendly little nudge once or twice a lap to make sure he was awake. Then one turn I didn't hit him. He had set up expecting to get hit. When he wasn't hit he spun out all by himself!(grin) True story! The old boy in the flag stand didn't have the balls of a bull gerbil!

Later a friend of mine was flagman and I was assistant flagman. I handed him a flag occasionally but my main job was to beat on the fingers of the guys trying to climb the ladder and join us in the flagstand. Three indeed would have been a crowd!

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z3 shaft

I don’t wear a glove and I tried the CF shafts. The sight picture was fine with a small white ferrule on the shaft. 12.5mm and 12.75mm is what I tried. Didn’t care for the 12.75mm as the12.5mm. I just couldn’t get adjusted to the sound of my stroke that previously gave me a sense of how well I stroked the cue ball with a maple shaft. The feel of a CF shaft in my closed bridge was bothersome whereas my wood shafts are protected with Renaissance Wax that lets the shafts glide like satin. Now that I play Kielwood shafts with my cues’ butts, I haven’t any need for or any interest in CF shafts. I prefer my stroke’s sound, the feel in my bridge & sight picture playing with KW shafts that offer low deflection. Some folks prefer CF shafts.

Absolutely. Guiness and BCA are nits.

Rusty in Montana said:

Not knowing the asking price of this cue or where its located if I were going to try and buy it id ask for a video of it being rolled across a pool table at least .
Then go from there , or low ball them and roll the dice ha ha !

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Located in Japan, and around $400. Not possible to ask for a video, nor negotiate on price, as I would be using a 3rd party service just to be able to buy it, and they do not ask questions for interested buyers. The shaft alone is probably worth about a $100, but that is all I know. Thanks.

What a great video. It’s been coming for a while, but cues are almost fully commodified now.

Mensabum said:

Uh yah.

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Look at racing records. Finish line only.

dr_dave said:

I didn’t notice any difference in how the finishes of the shafts felt, but I use an open bridge (and I have bony fingers) so difference would probably not affect me much anyway.

Concerning the sounds of the hit, they were certainly very different. The hit of the Rhino was the the most thuddy with the soft tip, and the WSC was really pingy. But again, I don’t really care much about these things as long as the CB goes where I want at the speed I want. I think I could play equally well with any of these cues (except with the Rhino when using lots of spin at slow speed, as discussed in the video), but there is a fix for that (as also discussed).

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Where do you purchase the WSC cue shaft?
The only information I found, didn't yield a solid conclusion.
Thank you.
j2