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This post is about hybrid shafts that have a CF top and a wood bottom. Little is known about these but players' seem to react to them in a similar fashion to that of shafts made of a combination of CF and wood. The hybrid and the combination CF/wood shafts appear silly, wacky, and gimmicky...

AZBilliards posts linked here, and ChatGPT's hallucination-less response (below) won't say what the different coatings on the various versions of the Defy shaft are.

North Carolinians can get other colors from Tickle Cue & Repair:

As to BobbyDee's question, Are LD shafts only really helpful on long shots w/ a lot of side spin? ChatGPT said it helped some to a lot even on shots with side spin where both cue ball and object ball were on the same half of the table. See below. This likely could mean whether spin was...

How helpful is using an LD shaft on shots close to the pocket (OB and CB on the same half of the table) and inadvertent spin applied? Or on those shots where side spin was not inadvertently applied?

Right----Hitchhiker $45 versus the $125 Interstate that includes the Hitchhiker and a 5.5' telescoping handle with pivoting head. If I buy the Hitchhiker, I may pick up some cue tips Dynamite, Razorback, and Mad Man:

I like the moosehead at our table because its the tallest bridge there. The Hitchiker is taller than PoolDawg's Moosehead (photos show Hitchiker 5-1/4" vs PoolDawg's Moosehead 4" ). I would have to work with the Hitchiker to see if its ability to pivot is a major advantage. The Moosehead I...

Some players buy the older Valley Supremes house cues converted to two-piece cues. See Mr. Joshua

They don't get much cheaper than that --- $125 for four one-piece cues of Russian Maple, 1" fiber ferrules, 13mm tip, pro taper

The Avid should eally be better since many players swear by it. Could the PoolDawg cue be better because: Differences in cue-tip type? Differences in weight balance? Avid has Acueweight Gen II weight system --- maybe its a bummer? Differences in total weight? Differences in taper? PoolDawg...

Isn't the spot on the wall 3.3 diamond lengths from pool table's pocket and the cushions-lines intersection?

Correction, there is more information on that shaft than I had thought: i) wood instead of a plastic sleeve at collar; ii) doesn't thin the front end, or thin the ferrule or hollow out the front end to achieve lower deflection; iii) gets lower deflection via "mass distribution, vibration...

Pagulayan and company's marketing strategy riffs off it’s the Indian and not the arrow. Theirs is it’s the Buzz and not the arrow. Their lack of description of how their carbon fiber shaft is better than other carbon fiber shafts and Pagulayan’s posts refusing to speak about the shaft...

Jacoby's V4 CF shaft may be an example. Who else has, as Jacoby claims with its V4 carbon-fiber shaft, "specially machined ferrule and thinner wall thickness near the tip end" with 19 inches of pro taper?

Prices vary on the Flying Pig _