Recent content by Paul_#_

Somehow replace the Sneaky Pete butt with a McDermott H-Series butt (3/8x10 joint). It is not like all other butts that give miniscule weight and balance adjustment. It allows you to vary the weight along the entire length of the butt. _

Is Rhino Must’s "refined" pro taper closer to hybrid conical taper than real pro taper? Rhino qualifies its’ response to SkillZelite’s question in Post #8 regarding pro vs conical taper. Rhino’s Dustin claims the Must shaft has pro taper “But this pro taper will be a little different...

No company except JFlowers gives numbers for its deflection and compares it to others. Deflection is not all what makes a shaft but it is an important item. Dr Dave's method seems accurate even when it is done by a human. It has several procedures that help guarantee close-enough accuracy and...

I sent my video to Matt at darkSIDEpool and got a thorough set of analyses. It helped me confirm some of my suspicions that I had from videos that I took myself earlier. His analyses is an independent analyses and helps me remove some of the confusion and guesses over what the hell is wrong...

OP OscarGrouch asked for differences in Predator's butts. There probably aren't that many differences or, certainly not compared to something like comparing to a one-wood Schmelke butt. Predator's butts have a core with four and at most thirty pieces of wood versus Schmelke's one. Predator's...

Are these the shafts you are talking about? Is it kielwood the complete shaft? It looks like the shaft weight can be adjusted. _

Below are Predator's description of butt construction using C4+ (4-piece core), C10+ (10-piece core), and P3 (30-piece core): The 9K uses C4+ construction. The SP2 uses 4-piece hard maple construction.

- - - - - there was no good reason for hitting the balls without a tip on the ferrule.

The 10.5mm Cynergy cue tip popped off playing and I hit a couple balls with it deforming the ferrule. I sanded it so that it works but I wonder if a new ferrule would be better.

How hard is it to replace the ferrule on the Cynergy? Does the ferrule you use look like the $5 ferrule Rhino sells?

Another explanation for why gluing the Kamui clear tip to the Revo vault plate fails is that you need to glue the vault plate to a fabric-like material instead of gluing the hard-plastic clear Kamui clear pad. I presume Revo’s silencer pad (or the replacement Mezz IG tip plate) are fabric-like...

That's a good point. I deleted that post --- no sense helping a company's fraud.

That may be true but its more likely that years ago the smaller and weaker shafts could only handle the lighter snooker balls. Now, with stronger carbon fiber shafts and combination wood/CF shafts, even smaller shafts can handle larger pool balls. This is certainly true regarding pro taper ---...

It took a year, but, yes, I asked and answered.

AliExpress has three models with a carbon fiber shaft that looks like wood and another that is wood exterior and CF inside. The three 10.5mm shafts are made by OKHealing, Zokue, and a no-name brand. The Zokue is a combination wood and carbon fiber shaft. The OKHealing CF shaft has a...