You cannot buy a stroke
LOL, so true. I've tried buying one, renting one, pretending to have one and many other variations. None worked so I just decided to buy a Revo and play without one.
Rake
You cannot buy a stroke
just talked to a great player who has a revo shaft and he said it took a couple months to get used to it. Heck, he already is great player. My first thoughts were, I don't need a $ 500.00 shaft, probably $ 500.00 worth of lessons to get my game closer to the game this guy has.
I have a wonderful cue, a wrapless Runde. It is a simple looking cue on order of a sneaky pete. I love it and shoot great with it. A professional player hit a couple of racks with it, what he could do with this cue was simply amazing.
The cue will only improve if I do.
I wonder how many of the people who've responded and said something derogatory about the Revo Shaft have ever played with one.
Hey, never let facts or an absence of experience get in the way of speaking with authority, LMAO!
Most instructors are worthless to players that are beyond B to B+ skill levels. That is fact.
Also a fact: On the other hand, there are a few (very few mind you) that are worth their weight in gold no matter what skill level you are.
Efren has had a coach at times so that means ANYONE can benefit from one as long as the coach is one of the "worth their weight in gold" instructors.
Bottom line:
The $500 is better spent on the shaft unless you are "very certain" your instructor is one of the very few golden vessels.....
As for the money, LOL.........most instructors this day in time will eat your $500 very quick and be gone leaving you with the same game (or worse than) you had beforehand.
A friend of mine charges $190 per hour with a minimum depending on the distance he has to travel to get there. Even if you travel to his house, he has a minimum of hours at the $190 per hour.
He knows who he is and he knows how I feel about it.
And yes, we are still friends and always will be. I'm honest and straightforward and he accepts that which is why I tell him all the time he is ripping people off. He usually replies "a fool and their money will soon _______" (part ways).
Rake
You have no idea about what you are talking about. I've had a lesson from a world champion and it changed my game.
there is no wine worth a price of more than $10 a bottle and there is no cue shaft worth $500............................
Kim
I wonder how many of the people who've responded and said something derogatory about the Revo Shaft have ever played with one.
Hey, never let facts or an absence of experience get in the way of speaking with authority, LMAO!
You have no idea about what you are talking about. I've had a lesson from a world champion and it changed my game.
If the shafts are so good why is so many Revo shafts are hitting the 2nd hand market ?
Because the demand is so high that people are selling them on the 2nd hand market for more than they paid retail.
Respectfully, Matt
(I don’t take myself too seriously. I hope you can return the favor.)
Dennis Orcullo bought a P3 Revo and was using it in the Buffalo's 1P tourney, but then switched back to his other non Revo cue.
Interested to see if he will stay with the Revo or not.
Dennis Orcullo bought a P3 Revo and was using it in the Buffalo's 1P tourney, but then switched back to his other non Revo cue.
Interested to see if he will stay with the Revo or not.
I have never played with a revo shaft , but I wouldn't expect the Revo shaft to be any different then any other man made shaft as in sound and feel.
Its just not going to sound like solid maple and that's enough to make me not care for the shaft..
Any cue manufacture that doesn't buy decent to top grades of maple dowels and get the wood time to move and cure to make cue shaft out of it is going to have issues with the shafts warping.
I don't know if Maple wood grows in china , but the issue of china importing maple, then sitting on the maple wood for a couple of years I don't think is going to happen .
To get a wooden shaft out of china that does wrap is rare .
Not talking about fiberglass resin reinforced shafts just plain solid maple ..
To stay in the cue making game allot of production cue manufactures started making fiberglass reinforced shafts or making laminated cue shafts .
Problem there was some of those LD laminated shaft makers were using lower grades of maple or maple veneers and there cues were still warping.
Personally I believe all these new fangled shafts came about because mainly china couldn't make a shaft that didn't warp ..
They had to come up with something different and then stuck the gimmick of LD on it to market the shafts ...
A cue maker can sand a shaft taper to match the players feel .
In the beginning Efren wanted nothing to do with LD shafts ..
Gina cues sits on his shaft wood for ten years ,, some cue makers use salvaged bowling alley wood that's had bowling balls bouncing on it for over 100 years ..
Me I can make my own solid maple shafts on my lathe or CNC and have never cared for anything but natural solid maple .
Also being a cue repairman I have seen how some of these shafts are put together .
Some of the workman ship looks like a 5 year old glued it together .
If the shafts are so good why is so many Revo shafts are hitting the 2nd hand market ?
I have seen some Lucasi Shaft stay some what straight and seems the MEZZ out of Japan sits on there solid maple wood for a couple years to.
Lucasi wooden shafts are made in less then 90 days , if you don't believe that call Lucasi/players warranty ..
I have never played with a revo shaft , but I wouldn't expect the Revo shaft to be any different then any other man made shaft as in sound and feel.
Its just not going to sound like solid maple and that's enough to make me not care for the shaft..
Any cue manufacture that doesn't buy decent to top grades of maple dowels and get the wood time to move and cure to make cue shaft out of it is going to have issues with the shafts warping.
I don't know if Maple wood grows in china , but the issue of china importing maple, then sitting on the maple wood for a couple of years I don't think is going to happen .
To get a wooden shaft out of china that does wrap is rare .
Not talking about fiberglass resin reinforced shafts just plain solid maple ..
To stay in the cue making game allot of production cue manufactures started making fiberglass reinforced shafts or making laminated cue shafts .
Problem there was some of those LD laminated shaft makers were using lower grades of maple or maple veneers and there cues were still warping.
Personally I believe all these new fangled shafts came about because mainly china couldn't make a shaft that didn't warp ..
They had to come up with something different and then stuck the gimmick of LD on it to market the shafts ...
A cue maker can sand a shaft taper to match the players feel .
In the beginning Efren wanted nothing to do with LD shafts ..
Gina cues sits on his shaft wood for ten years ,, some cue makers use salvaged bowling alley wood that's had bowling balls bouncing on it for over 100 years ..
Me I can make my own solid maple shafts on my lathe or CNC and have never cared for anything but natural solid maple .
Also being a cue repairman I have seen how some of these shafts are put together .
Some of the workman ship looks like a 5 year old glued it together .
If the shafts are so good why is so many Revo shafts are hitting the 2nd hand market ?
I have seen some Lucasi Shaft stay some what straight and seems the MEZZ out of Japan sits on there solid maple wood for a couple years to.
Lucasi wooden shafts are made in less then 90 days , if you don't believe that call Lucasi/players warranty ..
Dennis left Meucci, went back to his southwest and now back to Meucci. He was playing not so great recently so I think he was looking for a short term magical cure the past month.
I don't see myself switching back, I love my Revo.