Does anyone know if there are shafts out there that are made out of wood but resistant to dings? Maybe something like what the Diamond tables are made out of?
alternate shaft wood, something harder than maple?
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Try seasoned Hemlock. I have worked old barns with it and you need to drill it to put a nail in it. It doesn't split the framing nail just bends.
Try seasoned Hemlock. I have worked old barns with it and you need to drill it to put a nail in it. It doesn't split the framing nail just bends.
diamond wood tables are not really wood... well it's a wood plastic composite. actually birch wood & plastic. Birch isn't as hard as maple, when mixed with plastic though... I think most other woods with the hardness/stiffness desireable for a shaft are significantly heavier than Maple or they have inperfections in the grain/knots that make them undesirable.
*edit* it appears you can use dymond wood for some things like inlays and they do sell dymondwood dowels at Atlas billiard supply
*edit* it appears you can use dymond wood for some things like inlays and they do sell dymondwood dowels at Atlas billiard supply
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Yeah that's what I was afraid of. I guess I'll go get a cuetec shaft to put on my Southwest. lol.
My Morning Wood Shaft is very hard. It has a firm/stiff hit too. It has never been dinged, and I would remember if it had!
I would suggest either White Ash, or Purple Heart but are stronger than Maple and will resisit dents, however, they are both very stiff and will give you a very hard hit. Ash is used for Snooker cues mainly, I have never seen it used for a pool cue and Purple Heart is used mainly for Break Cues.
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One of my team mates has a purple heart break/jump. He loves to jump with that thing. It looks way different, but jumps good.
I tried someones break cue with a purpleheart shaft, and I was surprised at how well it played. If I changed the taper quite a bit, I would have had no problems playing with it.
FWIW Rodney
I once had a Break Cue that was made entirely of Kamagong ... Talk about a stiff hit !!!
Lignum vitae is a hard, dense and durable wood, the most dense wood traded; it will easily sink in water. On the Janka Scale of Hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4500 (compared with Hickory at 1820, red oak at 1290, and Yellow Pine at 690).
LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_Vitae
LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_Vitae
It's a green wood too, so everyone would just think you were a chalk slob who never cleans his equipment. Incidentally, hard maple rings in at 1450 on the Janka scale.
Dymondwood is a laminate it usually contains oak, ash, beechwood or birch.
It is both bonded and impregnated with a phenolic resin under high heat and pressure. Yes cues can be made out of it.
It will not ding even if you wack it hard on the table. Here's mine. :thumbup:
you find a replacement shaft and you'll be looking to sell your south west shaft? hit me up man
That is not really "wood" It resin impregnated & weighs a ton.
Renus (spelling?) makes cues out of diamond wood & the shafts are about 10mm & weigh 6oz plus so you can imagine what a 12.75mm would weigh.
If there was something superior I would think the custom world would be using it.
Renus (spelling?) makes cues out of diamond wood & the shafts are about 10mm & weigh 6oz plus so you can imagine what a 12.75mm would weigh.
If there was something superior I would think the custom world would be using it.
How can anything "be" a laminate? Maybe i have the wrong idea of what a laminate is. I dont know anything about wood and i should never have posted here.
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The Dymondwood cue I have and pictured is a little over 12mm and weighs in at 19.2oz.
Here is some more about Bob's cues.
http://www.westcoastcues.com/bobcues/bobcuepri.htm#aboutmat
I've been using a Hornbeam shaft since 2007 and I like it a lot. It's a little harder and stiffer than maple but still soft enough to play. It's also very similar in color, maybe a little more towards white and a little less towards yellow. Dmitry Komarov (username: DBK) makes these shafts. I recommend to look up his posts.
