I hit with his old wooden shaft. To me, it "did not" feel like a standard Quetec shaft. I'm 99.9% certain it was special made simply going by how long the taper was to the sound/feel it had compared to cuetec cues that I've hit with beforehand with very similar tips.
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I hit with his old wooden shaft. To me, it "did not" feel like a standard Quetec shaft. I'm 99.9% certain it was special made simply going by how long the taper was to the sound/feel it had compared to cuetec cues that I've hit with beforehand with very similar tips.
I’ve heard him say it’s a standard off the shelf shaft but who knows.
Fedor Gorst, who usually plays with a Revo, is currently playing at the Eurotoor Final with a Cuetec cue, with the new CF shaft.
is shane encourages people to illegally share a payed stream? hahahahah
But I guess you may not watched the recent WPC for youth in Moscow just a couple of weeks ago. He played at that event with a Cuetec and played great but...two of his opponents just played some great pool too. They were Zielinsky and Froehlich and managed to defeat him with there oldschool cues. I've watched those matches closely and once more had a great prove that in this game I love it is much much more about so many to mention and the "magic" cue does not give you such advantages as some equipment gives in some other sports.
I know Fedor a little and heard a lot of good things about him. He is just such a talent that could win either with Jacoby he played several years ago, or Predator, or Cuetec... just like the other such talents who give their hearts to the game. I guess they at the Predator are sorry they lost such great young talent.
But competition between those manufacturerers who offer these new tech stuff is definitely great and the more companies compete the better)
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FYI, I just figured out what was causing my follow-through to veer off course, after watching slow-motion playback of some new footage I filmed yesterday:
When the tip hits the right side of the CB, sideways motion of the shaft (due to natural shaft flex) pushes it to the right against the thumb of my open bridge. Then the cue bounces to the left off the thumb causing the follow through to veer left, but the CB is long gone by the time this happens.
I sure was relieved when I saw this! :thumbup2:
I couldn't accept that my stroke was as bad as the video seemed to imply.
Regards,
Dave
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They emailed me this week and said they would have them in stock within the next 2 weeks. Full MSRP pricing.
Great, I would like a price from your sources for the shaft blanks please, with an 11mm tip end and a .850 inch joint blank end.
Please PM me with a price for 40 blanks.
It will also need to have a layer of vibration dampening material as well.
PS a golf shaft and an arrow shaft do not work for a cue shaft.
Thanks Neil
Nice. Wise-a^* . NEVER said a golf shaft would work or do you have trouble reading??? What the engineer at Aldila DID say is that due to the way a cue shaft is "loaded" during a hit it would most likely require much lower(insert the word "CHEAPER") modulus material. IF you could get them to make any(they are LARGEST golf shaft co. on planet and kinda busy) i would bet you'd have to order a few more than 40.
I have been down that road of arrow makers and golf shaft makers. The requirements of making a composite shaft , that plays better than a wood shaft, can not be made with the cheaper carbon or the current weaving technology or current pulltruded technology. Yes they can be made cheap, but those shafts do not perform better than a well made wood shaft. The latest in high speed photography show what is happening in wood cues versus carbon cues. Do a search for the various video's in slow motion hitting a ball. It is a lot more interesting if you dont have any preconcieved ideas of what you are looking at. And then look at the video's of what are we actually seeing here, and what new thngs can we be learning from this new data. Just looking at the tip itself is very enlightening to me, let alone the reaction of the cue shaft itself. I know what is involved in getting the correct layup for my cue shafts.The cheap materials make a shaft like the early carbon cues that were made in the very late 1980's and very early 1990's . They stopped making them because they did not play as well as a wood cue at the time. Since then , wood cues have improved, and now the carbon shafts have improved and they will get better.
Please tell me who was making a carbon fiber cue in the 80s. I think your confusing fiberglass Cuetec garbage with what’s being made today.
The Balicini line from McDermott was carbon fiber. They were made in the 90s.
They were made in Rotorua, New Zealand, by a company that was called Kilwell ltd. They made tube products. These were sold in a lot of countries.
Which is related to something I noticed way back when I was first using side spin. When I had to use, say, left side but there was a ball just to the left of the cue ball and on this side of it crowding me, I would frequently foul that ball. Of course it was the cue ball pushing the stick to the side. If I had only understood what was going on I would have had some handle on squirt about 30 years earlier.... When the tip hits the right side of the CB, sideways motion of the shaft (due to natural shaft flex) pushes it to the right against the thumb of my open bridge. Then the cue bounces to the left off the thumb causing the follow through to veer left, but the CB is long gone by the time this happens.
I sure was relieved when I saw this! :thumbup2:
I couldn't accept that my stroke was as bad as the video seemed to imply.
Lots of great discoveries begin by someone saying, "Well, that's strange."
What a shit.
Cuetec is synonymous for shit quality and offering it at a price near Revos?
Cuetec is synonymous for shit quality and offering it at a price near Revos?
Have you seen or hit with the new CF Cuetec shaft ??