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Yes, they switched back to wood but not kielwood. One of the reasons to stay with wood is if you don't like to use a glove, with kielwood you need to use a glove (Yes I know there some out there who use kielwood and cf without a glove but they are the exceptional), Kielwood maybe smooth but not...

more interesting characters and maybe more fun to watch, but today's game is at a higher level

I think that Kielwood to shafts is like Custom pool cue to butts. They look nicer but they don't really play nicer compared to a high performance shaft/cue. It's mostly all in our head. If Kielwood was such a great option, I think that we would have seen more pros and top players use them, but...

He should get a job

so exploding brittle wood sounds like a lot of fun

CF is lighter than wood

Yeah, I'm going that road with all my tip installations, I use the Mezz pads

Are you shooting pool with it or chopping wood?

There is a sound “issue” with mine but I contribute it the tip installed (Kamui Clear Tan Hard) that gave me bad sound on another shaft as well. I need to replace the tip and see if it gets better, I’m sure it will. I have a solid maple shaft that was made from a Barnhart old growth maple blank...

The process of making kielwood makes the wood lighter and reduces front end mass so the deflection is lower than a standard maple shaft. But a front end cored maple or CF will still have lower end mass and will generate less deflection. I have the InFuzed kielwood shaft that is cored with CF at...

Depends who are the guests, how well they play and how well do you know them in regards of taking care of the cues. When I visited HK many years ago, I played with some of the HK guys that I met through this forum, and one of them lent me one of his Szambotis to play with… The players are cheap...

Busti is playing now in switzerland in a tournament, and from what I’ve seen, he is in good shape. Still my pick to win but definitely not going to pay $30 to watch this.

rules are rules

Who cares? Just shape it to how you like it

Just think of all the times that you accidentally applied spin to a break shot and how much spin and action you got using an average of 13mm rock solid tip with somewhat flat tip shape… It’s all in the stroke

They look like JFlowers rebranded

There is a whole surface of the tip that compresses and contacts the ball. The wider the tip, the larger the surface that contacts the ball. Now let’s say that you aim the center of the shaft/tip, 7mm off the center of the CB. A 12mm tip won’t touch the center of the CB while a 13mm tip will...

Once you understand that the contact point is not a point, everything will be clearer

It’s not the same The tip is not rock solid, it’s elastic and upon impact it spreads and “grabs” the cue ball. In fact the shape diameter less matters than most think

It doesn’t matter as long as the tip placement is correct. Wider tip will grab more of the ball’s center so you’ll need to go out off center more than with a small diameter tip which allows you to stay closer to the center.