Aggressive chalking strikes again.

[MmmSharp]

I agree with your assessment as to being the cause of the concave shape of / damage to the shaft.

I'm sure everyone here already knows this, but almost all the players at your local pool hall or tavern are clueless.....

The people who drill holes into chalk don't know how to chalk. They are stupid as stumps. That technique does not get chalk on the tip well. Good players don't chalk like that. If you have a home table and your chalk looks like the typical pool hall chalk -- drilled down the middle -- you don't know how to chalk. And bad chalking can ruin your spin game.

We call them borer's. Since they bore holes in the chalk

I have a feeling this fella also has a chalk holder, and the chalk is way below the holder so the holder itself is scratching the shaft. A solid holder, plus chalk rubbing on the shaft coild work like sand paper.

 

[garczar]

I find this a wee bit hard to believe. Carbon fiber shafts have not been around long enough for that to happen..

Chalk is fairly gritty. I see no reason for this NOT to happen if chalking was super aggressive. once you get thru the thin finish and into the fibers this is what happens.

 

[iusedtoberich]

I did cue repair for about 10 years in the mid 2000's. I'd come across chalk damaged ferrules all the time, but only on banger's cues. For actual players, I think I only had one customer that did this. He was just so engrossed in the game he didn't pay any attention or care on chalking.

This all does not add up to me. I still feel maybe it's a hoax. I have yet to see complete bangers buy a $300 or higher CF shaft. And players would not do this, as per my experience above of only 1 case in many years.

 

[MitchAlsup]

The measure of someone who does not care.....

 

[Bob Jewett]

... . I have yet to see complete bangers buy a $300 or higher CF shaft. ...

I visited a couple of years in the OB Cues expo booth where they were selling LD shafts for about that much. The players who tried shafts on the demo table seemed to never use side spin. I don't know if they were bangers, but I think they didn't realize what LD is about. Sometime people just buy the latest buzz.

 

[Kim Bye]

I see that all the time. It sucks when the customer spends $500 on a shaft because they care so much about performance, yet don't know how to chalk properly..

 

[Quesports]

I visited a couple of years in the OB Cues expo booth where they were selling LD shafts for about that much. The players who tried shafts on the demo table seemed to never use side spin. I don't know if they were bangers, but I think they didn't realize what LD is about. Sometime people just buy the latest buzz.

If the marketing really gets going there will be a newer better chalk every year. Golf has been doing that since they went from hickory shafts to metal. Look where that industry has gone!

 

[Philthepockets]

Didn't know Rafael was playing with carbon now.

 

[Pocket Change]

If the player went that far before posting or doing anything, they might be fine with a little Bondo fix. Get a rattle can of satin black and move on

 

[Bob Jewett]

If the marketing really gets going there will be a newer better chalk every year. Golf has been doing that since they went from hickory shafts to metal. Look where that industry has gone!

I think Dick Helmstetter made a lot more money at Callaway (Big Bertha, etc.) as their head designer than he ever made with cue sticks.

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