Carbon Fiber Hybrid with a twist.

I crank power strokes with a shitload of high inside or outside with no adjustment for deflection on shots 6 or 7 diamonds or less. Full table power may require a tweak, but not much. Vince makes a damn good low def hybrid.
You won't see very many shots requiring an aim adjustment if you play with a shaft that allows you to focus on other aspects of your game and stroke.
Solid consistent hit, excellent feedback. I'm all in.
I have 3.🤦🏻‍♂️
He puts a lot into these. This isn't just a piece of CF jammed on a wood base. The r&d he's put into the urethane foam alone would fill a book. Then there's the dampeners, the ferrule material, and one or two others he won't tell me much about. 😉 The guy will work to make you happy.
I know the CF he uses is not only uni, but has 2 other weave patterns for stability and flex. Preresinated is just the starting point.

Mensabum, that answers my question better than I asked it. The part that stuck with me is no aim adjustment on a power stroke with a pile of inside or outside, six or seven diamonds or less. That's exactly the shot where I overcompensate with my wood shaft and miss thin, so hearing that the hybrid just lets you play the shot is pretty convincing.

And the detail about the urethane foam and the dampeners and the ferrule — that tells me this isn't just carbon slapped on wood. Vince clearly sweats the stuff nobody sees. Three of them says the rest.

Are all three of yours set up the same, or did he build them a little differently from each other? I'm curious whether you found one setup you trust and just repeated it, or whether each one has its own job.

What do you change first when the break keeps coming up dry?

Always check the balls, but I back off the gas a bit until balls fall, then dial in.

Mensabum, thanks — checking the balls first is one of those things I know I should do and then just skip when I'm annoyed at the table. And backing off the speed feels backwards when nothing is dropping, but I can see how it works. Once you get a ball to fall at that softer speed, you are actually breaking instead of just smashing and hoping.

When you back off like that, do you keep the cue ball in the same spot, or do you move it too? I've been keeping mine in one place out of habit, and I'm starting to think that's part of my problem.

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