most of you are right
This is a TERRIBLE shaft!!!! I recommend that NONE of you buy it. (insert sarcastic tone please).
This is a TERRIBLE shaft!!!! I recommend that NONE of you buy it. (insert sarcastic tone please).
This is a TERRIBLE shaft!!!! I recommend that NONE of you buy it. (insert sarcastic tone please).
This is a TERRIBLE shaft!!!! I recommend that NONE of you buy it. (insert sarcastic tone please).
I can't help but conclude that much of the criticism posted in this thread is similar to the that in other threads concerning something whose cost is above the norm.
Many negative comments are posted by people blinded by the price tag and others who might find fault with something only because they can not afford it.
If a CF shaft were so easy and inexpensive to produce, I suspect there would be dozens of companies and cuemakers producing them.
This is a comical statement...
First off you don't know everyone's financial situation..I play with a Tascerella and wouldn't be caught dead with a Revo on a Tasc. cue.
But that says nothing about the Revo shaft unless you are inferring you have a preference for Tascarella shafts.
You seem to think that if someone cant afford something they'll criticize it. Thats just a plain old stupid comment. ..Im not calling you stupid just that statement you made....
I hate mine. It's ugly ... I'm too embarrassed to sell it so I'm giving it away.
PVC pipe stuffed with fiberglass....$1300 please. .Johnnyt
That's not the same as layering unidirectional fabrics, which is totally diffrerent than injection molded. I also never said that there were any ceramic tennis rackets made by Dunlop - I was referring to baseball bats (which they make today of carbon fiber). Also the graphite Walmart cue was some injection molded or pultruded thing, not made by rolling layers of unidirectional fabric, with a foam core.
I also mention McEnroe in his PRIME, which was late 70s - early 80s. He actually didn't play in 1986 (took the year off) and was never the same when he returned.
The technology as implemented might be new to the pool industry. I doubt Predator themselves make these shafts because it would require a separate facility with different tooling and machinery.
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The composite technology used by Predator isn't new in the cue sports industry.
It "looks" to be new, because of the Predator -excellent- marketing.
But it isn't a new technology . Marketing effect .
Longoni (N°1 of the carom market) , and some other italian companies, are selling high end composite shafts for >10-15 years . Some are CF only , some are GF/CF (glass/carbon) , some are aramid ("kevlar")/CF or aramid/GF composites . rolled products mostly, but you can find pulltruded products too ... many variations are avaible.
The primary markets for those italian composite shafts are 5 birilli (5 pins) and carom (mostly masse shafts used for artistic carom , but a couple of 3C shafts were produced too) . Almost, if not all the artistic carom players in the top 20 are using composite masse shafts . Mostly made by Longoni ... In 5 birilli / pins , a composite cue is +/- the norm .
a fact is verrry strange : Longoni has decided to not sell composite shafts anymore, when Predator introduced the Revo . ;-) . to me, IMHO, kind of joint-venture between the N°1s ... that's simply a matter of market .IMHO.
Actually the Revo shaft is indestructable under normal use. It will not dent nor warp. Slamming it onto anything is abuse not intended as normal use, and voids the warranty, I would expect.
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
So, if a Revo falls over...as when propped up and simply falls by accident to the floor...is the warranty void? Will a miscue void it?
Food for thought.
That picture certainly shatters a bit of the mystique, doesn't it?
All this is fine and dandy, but if you did the same with a wood shaft in all likelihood you'd dent it but keep on playing and then fix the dent later.
Have you seen Immonen play? He's constantly hitting the shafts on the edge of the tables when he misses.