Yeah, I suppose it is a tube but there are multiple steps to making it, carbon fiber doesn't grow out of the ground shaped like a cue shaft. They are a composite product made from resin and fillers with carbon fiber reinforcements as one component introduced in one of dozens of steps in the manufacturing process. It's no different from the occasional defect in a automotive tire, a boat hull that cracks or a cake that tastes bad.
Fair enough, I've never baked a cake but I do have 35 years in engineering doing design, development, testing, manufacturing and analysis of composites including carbon fiber reinforced products made by multiple processes.
And that carbon fiber is impregnated with resin that holds it all together. Its bound to shrink and cure with some variation depending on how perfectly everything is distributed and the fibers are oriented.
You've never baked a cake? wow
I don't like cake. I cook extensively, but no I have very little interest in desserts. I've baked pies. You should taste my cashew pie.
That's pretty bad. Who made it? Let us know. What's the point of a forum if stuff like this is kept secret?
We the consumers should know this stuff and hold the manuf's. feet to the fire. These things are NOT cheap and should be straight. If not perfectly straight it outta be better than what you showed in your video. I've had some REALLY hi-end cues where shaft wasn't perfect but close enough and they played fine. Meucci should make this right.
I agree. They pull from stock and ship. They probably outta do a roll test to keep from this drama.
QC should catch this. They could sell those that don't meet a certain criteria as seconds(at a discount of course).
I didn't see anything here about the dealers response, all I saw was you wrote two paragraphs on why you should and were going to hold off on saying who made it...followed in the next sentence by telling us who it was.