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Buy McDermott Defy shaft now! McDermott designed that shaft to be softer with a non-carbon-fiber sound. They did that by using special carbon-fiber rod or a CF coating to absorb vibration. McDermott succeeded. See YouTube videos of a Defy shaft dropped on a pool table and not bouncing...

An el cheapo, Sportcraft C 6 12 Carbon Graphite, had a metal ferrule over a longer, about 5-inch, plastic ferrule. The plastic ferrule was inserted into the carbon graphite rod (and the metal ferrule). The carbon graphite rod was glued to the plastic and metal ferrules. Photos of a blue...

I don't know how old it is but it is very old. Very unusual, long joint. I suppose the flatness to the butt was common to pool and snooker cue sticks years ago.

How do you know it was over 100 years old? I have four Briggs cues and may be able to prove they are over 100 years old by the fact the company went bankrupt in 1929 and that most of its tables and cues were sold years before the company closed. I still have to visit the Boston Public Library...

I am a surprised. My Le Pro seemed very leathery but flaky, too. I do shape mine a lot and that may account for a tear in the tip. It also started to mushroom. I just figured that some milk and compression would make it a less-flaky, stronger tip.

That is correct (although the vendor called it a French cue):

It goes without saying, DON'T buy square tips or square tips made of some super-hard ceramic. Knives don't cut it and a metal file works but slowly. If I could trim it to put on a shaft, it probably would damage the cue ball.

OK. So maybe decal cues aren't the best. Here is a French cue that puts the decal cues to waste. It is odd that in one photo some of the wood has a gold tint while in another it is white.: ____

Probably this one: _

Nice price, too, $6

The black and clear pads that are part of the tip are very hard plastic. Sandpaper and knives used on other tips don't cut as well. I get it done but it is much, much slower than working on a Le Pro. I might try a small hack saw or metal file next time for my first effort on reducing the 14mm...

About 1972 to 1976 a vertical with some overlapping: HI1 About 1976 (???) to July 1986 a verticalL HUEBLER About July 1986 to about 1988: Cue by Huebler About 1988 to June 1993: CUE BY HUEBLER MADE IN U.S.A. After June 1993: HUEBLER MADE IN U.S.A. According to the WorthPoint website, the H I 1...

Are you saying the logo before the vertical huebler was a straddling-vertical H I 1 ??? When did they quit making those straddling-vertical HI1 Hueblers? Seems I heard there may have been some Hueblers made before the vertical-Huebler logo that had no logo? Correct?

A Chinese researcher posted in the last year a video of his tests of a unit that would test deflection. I cannot find the link, however. Predator and Meucci have made their own cue-ball hitting machines. Dr Dave shows you to do deflection testing without a machine at There is great...

McDermott's 8-piece laminated i-Pro and i-Pro Slim shafts are hollow, with a hollow carbon fiber rod inside, and a wood dowel inside that:

The billiard community could be improved if there was a Consumer Reports like evaluation of cue shafts and a description of the materials used in shafts. It could start with deflection scores for ten shafts. It could publish lists of shafts' energy transferring efficiency of shaft-hit to cue...

It is clever use of a golf tee --- it allows only one ball to be released each lever pull. __

You can add color with a blue highlighter:

And this one for $900

This one is $265 https://rock-itlauncher.com/product/rock-it-semi-automatic-pool-ball-launcher/