Recent content by DeeDeeCues

It says, 'doug leech'. Don't know if he is a cue maker, but seems to play in Ohio.

What if my hand itches? What if a spider got into the glove? What if the guy needed to scratch his butt crack and didn't want the glove to smell?

The two lane highway to my house is 70mph. The only vehicles that consistently drive slower than prius's are suburus and jeeps. I'm never behind a jeep doing over 52mph, and that includes the cars with 'jeep' emblems. If they want to go that slow, they should ever drive in the barrow pit or...

We will see if we can make that happen... Ever get through Montana?

In the not-so-distant, my friend. I have a little more finishing on the cue and I'll have it out. Play well tonight!

Thank-you for the kind words. I was firmly in your camp in regards to CF, but as a maker I was kinda forced to start building CF shafts. I couldn't really sell something I hadn't fully experienced, so this is where I find myself. My verdict is...they are fine. They aren't magical, but there...

That all depends on a lot of factors. Don't presume that I've fully explained the construction. Or that I ever will.

Thank-you. Interesting idea to copyright it, hadn't really considered it.

Thanks, bud. It really opens a lot of possibilities for design. I have an order for a cue that will feature a really cool piece of curly maple. The customer likes the piece so well he wanted to feature more of it, so we will be using extra length in the shaft portion.

I want are of anime doing similar, thanks for the info. I haven't seen any real downsides yet.

The tenon is 3.5" into the cf shaft, tapered and grooved. A lot of cf shafts feel harsh and slightly unpleasant to me, these don't. Very solid, tho.

Yeah, that's the telling feature...

The bubinga shaft is long, 31.5". Weighs 4.3oz with a balance 12" from the joint. I messed up in my original post, the CF section is 20.5" The first one I made with the maple is 30.5", 3.7oz, with a balance point 13" from the joint.

The transition is well past where the pro-taper ends and is as good as a good ferrule install. I haven't seen anyone stroke past that area and it is basically seamless. Thanks for asking.

As the title suggests, the shaft is CF for the first ~18", wood at the joint. In this case, I used bubinga to match the butt. My previous was maple at the joint end. This started as an experiment due to a CF blank that was unusable. The results were pretty fantastic. Feels great, plays...