Jesse Gilbert
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Just watched a interested you tube video. Anyone know what's up
What's going on with cdx shafts
- Thread starter Jesse Gilbert
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For those that haven't seen the video. Perhaps a business venture gone bad.
https://youtu.be/NVBxQbXIUgo
https://youtu.be/NVBxQbXIUgo
The collapse had to be at least a few weeks after the SBE, because Kings of Billiards (Chad Bowling) was promoting those shafts during the stream of the Appleton/Strickland 4-pocket 10-Ball Challenge in May.
Too bad. Wasn't Dechaine playing with one of those for a while?
[I see he is back to regular, non-LD maple shafts now.]
I have no idea what went on with the business side,but this is my exp with those shafts as a product.
I've never seen a decent Meucci,Perry,Players or whatever come apart in the way my buddie's did.
He got this shaft in a trade so it was the spare shaft for a quick-release McD with the 3/8-16 thread.
The brass insert was PRESSED in :scratchhead: with maybe a little epoxy somewhere but the outside of the insert had a couple grooves cut into it with a raised burr that ideally would have bitten into the wood maybe .002 deep at best.
However he only got to hit 3 balls before he knew something wasn't right with it.
I tried unscrewing it a couple times before it showed itself but on the 3rd try the insert came completely out of the wood with a pop like a ground dowel pin in a perfect fitting hole sounds.
It became a joke of a product instantly. I've only made 5 shafts and know that will NOT work.
I was able to make the thing 100% playable and much nicer looking,but only after major surgery that a 189.00 retail shaft should NEVER need. Tommy D.
I've never seen a decent Meucci,Perry,Players or whatever come apart in the way my buddie's did.
He got this shaft in a trade so it was the spare shaft for a quick-release McD with the 3/8-16 thread.
The brass insert was PRESSED in :scratchhead: with maybe a little epoxy somewhere but the outside of the insert had a couple grooves cut into it with a raised burr that ideally would have bitten into the wood maybe .002 deep at best.
However he only got to hit 3 balls before he knew something wasn't right with it.
I tried unscrewing it a couple times before it showed itself but on the 3rd try the insert came completely out of the wood with a pop like a ground dowel pin in a perfect fitting hole sounds.
It became a joke of a product instantly. I've only made 5 shafts and know that will NOT work.
I was able to make the thing 100% playable and much nicer looking,but only after major surgery that a 189.00 retail shaft should NEVER need. Tommy D.
