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Cory builds a fantastic roasted maple shaft , aka Kielwood. I purchased one from Martin a year ago. I have zero complaints and would have bought more if Cory made different threads. Nonetheless, it was Cory’s roasted maple shaft that caused me to add more Kielwood shafts for my other cues. I now...

Since I couldn’t get a ivory joint cue built residing in CA, my next choice for a cue joint is a wood to wood joint. 40 years ago I played with a cue that was just wood, no metal pin, and it played fantastic. But I was forewarned that if I played a lot of pool, the joint would not hold up like...

In all likelihood, Bill built this cue using ivory. It was what he usually used for ferrules and joints during that period of his cue making. As far as testing the material to confirm it’s truly ivory is not worth attempting. Knowledgeable buyers will trust that the cue has ivory as long as this...

At this price, everyone with a home pool table should have one if they do not already own a pool ball cleaner.

I totally concur, not that my opinion matters much. All my life I used a cube shape and so I was delighted when TAOM & Alex Pagulayan arranged an endorsement for a cube version of TAOM chalk under his name. It solved my complaints about TAOM’s original oval shape pool chalk. Pagulayan chalk...

I have never had my clothing cause a foul. If it had, it’s never been called on me by any oppponent or referee. All my fouls are caused by my limbs like arms, hands, fingers, legs, misuse of a bridge and sheer clumsiness. Maybe if you wore loose fitting clothes or hoodie this happens but I’m...

I don’t get it….”if” you wore a leather chalk pouch, what’s the reason or need to use a chalk holder too? And if for some odd reason you chose to do that, I suppose to each their own. But a rubberized chalk holder isn’t going to be removed or inserted as smoothly because the pouch’s interior is...

Chalk pouches are by design meant to lay close to your waistline or pocket. This is so there isn’t any swing interference with one’s pool stroke. The closer to your bodice the pouch lays lessens any obstructing placement where you prefer the punch to be positioned. That is understandably...

What do most players use as a chalk holder? I don’t like having to move my chalk around the table or walk to go retrieve it so I wear a leather chalk pouch. The naked chalk just drops in the pouch easily and retrieving it is but a few inches away the whole time I play pool. Something like this...

I wish I could have ordered my Kielwood shafts built using 5/8” ivory ferrules but the ban killed that option. If you can order a KW shaft built with ivory ferrules, the acoustical sound of the hit would be the sweetest. Nothing performs as well as ivory but it’s admittedly a controversial topic...

If you use a cue maker that buys heavier blanks, getting a decent weight Kielwood shaft, even over 4 ozs., is easy. The harder task is locating those cue makers. It took me several months of searching but I located a few cue makers. Torrefication does lighten the shaft but all you have to do...

The plastic shouldn’t afffect the cue’s condition and storage in a plastic sleeve is fine but a cloth sleeve provides more protection despite it isn’t water resistant like plastic should moisture ever became a environmental variable.

Aside from California & New York, there other states with the same restrictions; cue sellers & buyers need to remain alert. The de minimis exemption in the statute does not apply to buyers or sellers in states that’s passed legislation banning ivory sales. You just cannot buy or sell anything...

Actually I carry it like a briefcase in one hand while my other on carries my Aramith travel case with Centennials. If I wanted, or needed, to go a little lighter, I have a couple of Instroke hard leather 3x7 cases & 2x4 case as well. I could always go The Color of Money approach and just use...

If you are having a cue built, just ask the cue maker to make one of the shafts, presuming you’d order two, Kielwood. Even if the only maple shaft that came with your cue was Kielwood, it only adds a few extra bucks but well worth it.

Change can either be the hardest thing to do or acknowledge and it can also be the easiest to do. What determines how difficult or simple accomplishing change depends on how slight or severe the change actually is and whether any alternative is any better? The longer you do something the same...

Hickory might work great for an axe handle as Clint showed us can be a useful weapon in a fight. Anyway, aside from self defense purposes, I just don’t recall seeing many Hickory pool cue shafts.

When you go to practice, play 14.1 against yourself without any imaginary ghost opponent. Assign a score…..50 points……better yet, 45 points. 3 racks of pool which keeps this short. So you need to jot down some data but it’s pretty simple info to record as described below. In fact, I’d even say...

I have played with wood shafts from my introduction to pool the summer of ‘61. Of course, initially it was because the cues I played with were one piece pool cues. But I was just a young teenager and really had no other options at my age back then. As soon as I could get my first two piece cue...

Gil Castillo……..