Straighten your shafts easy with this tool

OK, it's been 3 months. I haven't seen any regression in the shafts. They both appear to be as straight as I dared to make them. But I am still afraid to try this on anyone else's shaft. Nice inexpensive piece of equipment
 
Jacoby shaft straightening tool

Ok just like a lot of others I was skeptical about this tool in many ways! But due to finding 1 of my lets call it pretty much irreplaceable shafts I decided to buy 1 so before using it on said shaft I tried it on an old Meucci red dot shaft I have thats been badly warped for many years & in less than 5 min in front of a live audience of other skeptics at my local room I had this shaft dead straight with very little marring on it as a result of using it as shown in the video, nothing that wouldn't come out with a little cue silk & 400 grit sand paper Volla' good as new! Now moving on to the shaft in ? I wasn't so lucky! with a head full of confidence that I'm now an expert with this thing I go to work. Well lets just say that it took me a little bit longer to get this 1 squared away but I finally did & my audience was quite entertained by the way, thought they were gonna start placing side bets. I realize now that I got a little too aggressive & its gonna need a little TLC on the lathe to get rid of the marks left on it & I'll have Steve Lomax or Joe Blackburn take care of that for me when I get to Tunica in couple of days but I'm telling you it's straight as an arrow! This thing works don't ask me how or why but it does, made a believer out of me!
 
i have one......

I have had one for a while now, probably about 6 months. I have fixed at least a dozen shafts and they are all still straight. I do have a really old mcdermott C series shaft that I have not been able to get straight yet, but it was really bad before and not as bad now. overall this tool was worth the money and more. Saved me hundreds from having to buy new shafts.
 
weathering the storm

Hey! Jacobyguy, good for you man! you stuck to your guns and hung in there thru all the crap to have done what the non-believers thought was impossible. Proved them wrong and appear to be selling these things as fast as you can post them, nice work and by the way I love mine.
 
Wonder Tool

Just came across this old post searching for something else got hooked & read thread from start to finish and all links in between. Thanks to all you members who dropped the cake and bought it to give it a try and chance and report your honest findings. Skeptics and know it all rude members came at you hard Matt thank you for not 'running away' to hide cowering like they wanted. Good luck I am getting one to check out on some shafts I have laying around deemed otherwise useless.

Kat
 
jayman said:
Not many warped but playable shafts are "thrown away" they are quite often replaced with new ones and become the second shaft with a "taper roll"

I have had excellent success taking an arch out of shafts over the years. I use the exact same principles. I don't put a flat spot in the length of the shaft or create a need for further servicing to repair any new damage.

It is the simplest most obvious concept on earth to bend it back opposite the warp in order to relieve the stress or stretch the fibers on the shortened side.

I don't think any one is saying it won't effectively do that job. I think the real question or cause of alarm is; Why drag a steel bar down a cue shaft to do the bending?, knowing full well that it will flatten the wood and probably scratch it as well? when it is simply not necessary.

Again, it's not weather the bending is effective, it's the abrasive method drawing attention to this particular method.
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I have an old brunswick challenger that someone once married(literally has a gold ring on it that ain't comin off) and the taper was phenomenal but it was bent a solid cue ball off center. I used this method and got it straight enough to tip on a lathe, though seeing the cue bend like that always makes you clinch. No water either, she's still straight :) that being said, I have 22 other crooked cues that is like to use this on :)
 
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Anyone else straighten some ugly shafts with this tool? Better yet has anyone purchased this shaft adjustor and not been able to straighten a shaft? Has anyone damaged a shaft with this tool? Lets here it all.
 
shaft

Bought one of your tools and used it on a shaft--I ended up chasing the warp for awhile till I got the technique down....but I got the warp out. The shaft was a meucci...who woulda thought....

Thanks

Joe

ps I have 3 more meucci shafts to straighten now --thanks again
 
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