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Whoa! Your "favorite shaft ever" --- Cuelees EX Solid--- is weird --- carbon fiber shaft in the bottom few inches and a wood exterior/CF interior in the top part of the shaft. As you mentioned, the Cuelees CT2 shaft does not have a few inches of shaft made only of carbon fiber like EX Solid...

Amazon is selling a fiberglass Rhino shaft. I don't think there are fiberglass players shafts on Rhino's website. I think Rhino has discontinued it's fiberglass shafts.

If the 10.5mm Rhino shaft has pro taper, I'd bet the larger shafts do, too. My 10.5mm has pro taper. My guess is that whatever playing cue and shaft sold on their website has pro taper. I know that sounds wrong but the specs for their over $330 cues are the virtually the same as their $250...

Rusty asked why not just get Le Pro instead of the knock-off, ThePro? Cue Components explained that the Le Pro company (Tweeten) is stuck-up and it hasn't done anything since Grandpa Le Pro invented Le Pro. Le Pro's $1.50 price is too much versus ThePro's $1. If you can tell the difference...

This orangutan played before the square tips became available: __

Seller required minimum bid of $425 and provided photos and this nothing-like description of the "Vintage Unknown 2-piece Billiard Pool Cue": Up for your consideration is this sharp looking vintage cue. The weight is 19.2 oz. Butt half measures 29 1/4, the shaft is 29 1/2, together it's 58 3/4...

I'm thinking about something from Character Cues. The one on the left is made from Ash (blue), Black Cherry burl. The one in the middle is made from spalted/stabilized maple (purple), black cherry burl (handle) The one on the right is made from Spalted & Stabilized White Ash, Walnut and...

Not recently, you're right. HawaiianEye posted about Burl eight years ago in Post #18:

I am surprised the butt and shaft worked. Maybe they gave up on the shafts because they failed too often???

SP-1 is another unusual design. I don't think they had that before. Both are nice. The price, too, was good --- $620 for SP-1 and $670 for the other. SP-1 still available at the Chops website: __

Does AI get most of it right? It seems like it was mostly correct in your AI result. AI's lies are disturbing because it writes like an encyclopedia and it uses computers that are otherwise extremely accurate for trillions of other computations made every day. Part of its problem is its...

Another AI-generated pool image:

Water buffalo Pro $1.25 tip from Cue Components. See below a user's positive comments from that company's web site about using buffalo hide on a break shaft shaped to a silver dollar circumference and then using it on a 13mm players shaft dime shaped.

My square cue tips appear to be made of micarta. See ads from Woods Cues, AliExpress, and Alibaba below for the same kind of square tip. One AZer figured they were like G10 cue tips (fiberglass) but, it appears, they are micarta. Two photos of my cue tips from Amazon's Lljsszr: PHotos...

Koehler claimed a corner pocket’s effective target size is the same regardless of object-ball angle to corner pocket. Koehler’s finding is not what you see — pocket and target size decreases with increasing ball angle to corner pocket (angle increases from zero degrees for ball sitting on table...

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So, with five-inch pockets, an object ball at the table spot sees a five-inch corner pocket but for the ball frozen to the rail, its a 3.5 inch corner pocket. I will have to find those reports. Koehler intuitively is wrong. Newer players joke the slow-hit ball pocketed off the cushion near...

Jack Koehler writes in The Science of Pocket Billiards that the pocketable size of corner pockets is the same size regardless of object-ball position: “The unique thing about corner pockets is that the effective pocket size remains the same regardless of approach angle. The target area shifts so...

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