What a great explanation, never read something more stupid than that!
Seems to be no reason to ask a question, if you already know all the answers.
What a great explanation, never read something more stupid than that!
From what I read, you seem a CF Pro, therefore you explain me why a tapered tube of 1mm of wall 3 feet long will be more flexible in the larger part than the smaller part of the tube.
IF you could add enough reinforcement to the tip to make it ANYWHERE near as strong as butt-end the shaft would deflect as much as solid metal bar. Golf shafts made for hi-speed swings(105mph+) have reinforced tip ends but the butt end is still stiffer. Take any cf pool shaft on the market and apply same force to both ends. The big end is stiffer/stronger.Not necessarily.
IF you could add enough reinforcement to the tip to make it ANYWHERE near as strong as butt-end the shaft would deflect as much as solid metal bar. Golf shafts made for hi-speed swings(105mph+) have reinforced tip ends but the butt end is still stiffer. Take any cf pool shaft on the market and apply same force to both ends. The big end is stiffer/stronger.
I understand that. Been fitting/selling/fixing clubs for 20+ years. The big end of a tapered cf tube is still the stong/stiff end due to its circumference. To soften a shaft you trim the big end. To stiffen it, the opposite. Regardless of flex the butt end is always the stiff end.Some golf shafts flex up higher by the handle or grip area by design. They are designed that way to produce a flatter ball trajectory.
What is your preferred TV emission? I suppose The Flintstones
You're going backwards, actually.
Cues use to be really fat at the bottom and thin in the middle .
That's why old house cues can still be chopped, extended and converted.
The average cue butt dimension now is around .840"-1.250".
it used be around 1.300" at the bottom.
Your 30mm taper would be ridiculous today.
You probably won't even find that many hard cases to fit the butt.
How long is the butt ?
What's the joint diameter , bottom of the forearm/top of the handle and the bottom of the butt diameter ?
How about reigning in people saying some builders are greedy.
Or putting out a product just to make a quick buck.
If you dont like my products, that's fine with me. Dont buy them.
But when you start calling me a crook, you might be looking for an ass kicking for an old man.
on march 6th I said I might make a carbon fiber shaft and see what all the hype was about. I like wood shafts. I was called an old dinosaur, behind the times, had no clue what I was talking about and that I could not make a carbon fiber shaft.
I have 2 being used locally, one on the way to Washington for an azb member to test and the one pictured here, so much for telling me what I can and cant do,
the cue below is a one piece purpleheart 3/8 by 10 pin flat face joint with a shaft I made, it is not perfect and has discoloration where it is tapered, but that will make zero difference in how it plays. I will work on that problem if I ever build anymore like this. I am working on some silver material for future shafts.
it weights 3.6 oz, has a 18 pro taper, and a s.i.b. medium tip. it moves cue ball as it should, has a different sound at contact but not unpleasant, something like a real hard tip. i use a very hard bees wax on my wood shafts and did the same to this, to me feels about the same.
it takes about a year to make a maple shaft, and finding good wood is getting harder. I had never worked with carbon fiber before accept for tip pads when I started this project. I can make one of these shafts in 3 days and a total work time of less than 3 hrs
and its cheap to make but nasty to work with this material.
Mike, Personally the person that needs the warning is Hit's em Hard.....He has not followed the rules of posting in this section thru most of this thread, especially against DesiPicos, let's rein in the sarcasm here.
Mike
Hi, what is the differences between Chinese cheap priced shafts and others high priced well known shafts, my knowledge in CF are very limited.
Mike, Personally the person that needs the warning is Hit's em Hard.....He has not followed the rules of posting in this section thru most of this thread, especially against Desi
Dave
Desi is the one who couldn’t properly keep his answer confined to the topic at hand. While I may been dealing with him in a not so pleasant manner, he brought this upon himself. He wants to speak as if his carbon fiber weave shaft is equal to these newer tow wound carbon fiber shafts. I’ll apologize to desi for treating him harshly, as long as he apologizes for trying to spread misinformation and implying his shafts are comparable to the tow wound versions. But I doubt that’ll happen as he’s threatening me with physical violence for showing him he’s wrong about his shafts.
But of course we know that in just a few weeks Picos went from not knowing anything to seemingly the expert. And as I seem to recall, there’s only three users on this board who deal with the full production and sale of these carbon shafts. And all three of them cannot answer to the extent needed because of their jobs. So should this entire thread be moved then?
Have you hit with one of Chuck's shafts, have you made carbon fiber shafts before, since the answer is a big fat no to both those questions, maybe you should slow your roll a bit.
But of course we know that in just a few weeks Picos went from not knowing anything to seemingly the expert.
Did you remember my question that you did not answer yet, concerning your affirmations?:
EXPLAIN ME WHY A TAPERED TUBE OF 1MM OF WALL 3 FEET LONG WILL BE MORE FLEXIBLE IN THE LARGER PART THAN THE SMALLER PART OF THE TUBE!
Of course that I need to be an expert in C.F. to know that your are totally wrong in yours affirmations!
My first question in this thread was not about this absurd basic thing!
I always have respect for people who respect others people.
Because simply put, you’re not looking at the distortion of the shape. Visually you may not see the bend being as great, but the circular shape is being deformed to an oval. And that’s where the weakness is. If we take this from the size of cue shafts, to the size of a sewer pipe, it’d be easier to see the shape deformation occurring. And then at a large enough size, the 1mm wall thickness is not strong enough to support the weight of itself. A very easy way to test this would be to put it into a press and measure the force needed to cause failure.
The joint end of a carbon cue shaft has a higher chance for failure than the tip end. But again, since cue shafts have multiple points of taper changes. All those changes will augment the flex points of a shaft, and change their inherent weak points. If we take a carbon fiber cone and flex it, you’ll visually see it flex more towards the thin end, but structurally it’s deforming at the thick end and no longer round like the thin end. By plugging the entire shaft with foam, adding a large mass to accept a joint pin. You’ve change the properties for flexing. And by the methods used to make the shaft ‘sound’ playable, you’ve created a new flex point. That’s the flex point you are looking at when claiming the joint end is ‘stronger’.
Your first question is asking what the differences are. Simple answer is a lot, but also not much. These companies making the blanks to sell are using basic known techniques to put layers together. They are making them to an industry known stable thickness, not always cue friendly thickness. And not always understanding that the finish needs to be perfect because these blanks are not getting a finishing treatment like golf shafts or normal carbon fiber. But that doesn’t help you understand all the nuances that goes into why carbon fiber weave was ditched and everything is done with a single filament. It doesn’t help you when someone chimes in that carbon fiber shafts aren’t designed to flex. Yes, structural pieces of carbon fiber are designed not to flex. But could you imagine if golf shaft makers held that same idea! Hell, how about a golf shaft filled with foam! Cue shafts are not structural, and are designed to flex.