KielWood Shaft
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"I'm Buddy Hall", words to live by.
That's a good shaft.
So far So good. I decided to try a Keilwood shaft. Got the fuze from seyberts. radial pin, 12.5. Kamui black soft.
Put it on my Barnhart that I have not used in a long time because I didn't like the way it played. It will be my daily player for the foreseeable future.
Put it on my Barnhart that I have not used in a long time because I didn't like the way it played. It will be my daily player for the foreseeable future.
what's its weight?
3.7. made the cue 19.1
I think a 30 inch would be perfect for me. Looking
3.7 sound great. I got one with 5/16x14 thread and it's 4.3oz, a bit heavy for me and makes the cue too forward balance but it plays nice
Next week my cue maker is shipping my KW shafts. Been playing with a borrowed KW shaft made by the same cue maker the past 3 weeks. It’s a inch longer than the 29” shafts I had built that aren’t cored but happens to be the weight I want that matches my orig. maple shafts. It’s taken awhile to find someone but IMO, should be worth the time & effort.
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What shaft is that with 4.3oz weight ?
InFuze Kielwood
I have hit balls with a couple kielwood shafts when they first came out and even though they hit solid and moved the cue ball, they felt kind of "dead" to me when it came to the feedback you get from striking the cue ball.
All wood is dead, but the kielwood shafts seemed to have lost some of the "liveliness" that you normally feel in a good wood shaft. Maybe it was from the heat used in curing the wood.
They also had a higher-pitched sound than other shafts. It could have been due to the tip, ferrule material, wood or a combination of any of those.
I would like to try some of the newer ones being made.
All wood is dead, but the kielwood shafts seemed to have lost some of the "liveliness" that you normally feel in a good wood shaft. Maybe it was from the heat used in curing the wood.
They also had a higher-pitched sound than other shafts. It could have been due to the tip, ferrule material, wood or a combination of any of those.
I would like to try some of the newer ones being made.
It is a 5/16x14 joint so the metal receiver in the shaft collar adds xtra weight.
I posted a photo of a 4.01 oz KW shaft I borrowed that’s 30” but is all wood.
You have to search for cue makers that can build heavier KW shafts that are
always lighter after torrefication. The KW shafts I’ve ordered are flat faced 29”.
I have a PureX inFUZED with a 3/8x10 thread at 12mm. I originally bought it for a couple of customs. One custom is gone and the other has a finicky joint pin that this shaft won't screw down onto. I now use it on a cheap Lucky butt and it makes for a sweet shooting combo. 3.5oz & 14.5oz for a very nicely playing 18oz. I thought about getting an actual McDermott or other nicer butt to use with it, but I can't see it being any better than these two together.
I'm still a CF fan, at least with a couple of my cues, but I'm really liking this KW on the Lucky and I've got a really dark roasted shaft from cuemaker Shelby Williams being made for some radial pin cues I have. Very much looking forward to trying that one out.
I'm still a CF fan, at least with a couple of my cues, but I'm really liking this KW on the Lucky and I've got a really dark roasted shaft from cuemaker Shelby Williams being made for some radial pin cues I have. Very much looking forward to trying that one out.
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Paul_#_
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So, an inFUZED Kielwood shaft weighs 3.5 ounces while another one is 4.3 ounces (Bavafongoul wants a kielwood 4-ounce shaft).
The InFUZED website claims its shafts are 0.12 pounds or 1.9 ounces. That must be a shaft without joint?
probably a mistake
Perhaps not……cored KW shaft weights can vary based on the blank selected. My reason for wanting an uncored KW
shaft is I believe matching a KW shaft weight to my orig. maple shafts is very important. I’ve played pool for longer than
most readers have lived so deflection is really not worrisome or bothersome. A little less is always better but it is not my
Golden Fleece. I want the weight and balance of my cues to not change very much. I tried several cored KW shafts and
all were 3.4-3.7 ozs. My cue shafts are heavier than that and so I wanted KW shafts in the 4 oz. range. I decided that a
solid wood KW shaft would be better suited for what I wanted and embarked on trying to find a cue maker to build it w/o having to add weight to the shaft. Most cue makers didn’t have the inventory to build what I wanted but eventually I found a few that were willing to tackle building the shaft to my specs. That’s the reason and bottomline for my search.
SSDiver2112
Escott Cues
I’m finishing up these two KW shafts 3/8-10 Mod 4-4.2 oz. May have to take out some wood behind the joint on the 4.2 one for balance reasons. It is a second KW shaft I made for myself. I really like the way they feel and play.
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I just received a KW shaft I had made for a 1980s Budweiser cue I found. Had the maker match the profile of my favorite Mezz W-700. It’s got a little more deflection than the Mezz but plays really nice and the color is basically the same as the 37 year old shaft it replaced.
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Buddy used to win a tournament each week, and he'd sell the cue after the win. Also Bugs Rucker never owned a cue. He either borrowed, or used a house cue. Maybe the greatest banker of all time.