Carom Shafts Taper?????

[billiardshot]

We are told most carom shafts taper are Conical. Mbvl mention in another thread he have shafts with Komori and Shooni Taper. I know Dieckman mention these taper on his site and also Ron Kilby mention Shooni Taper on his site. Here the question beside Mazin Shooni - What other 3 Cushion Players have their own special design shaft taper he play with and what are their specs from joint to tip? Whether American, European, Asian, or Latin Players.

 

[Rich93]

Schuler used to have many tapers, some styled by famous players. I bought an Allen Gilbert taper, for example, though I use their European taper. The Gilbert taper has a 13mm tip and slides through the fingers easier than a constant or European taper.

The Schuler web page showing all their tapers isn't on their new website, at least not that I could find. I'm sure they're still all available though. Their website is
www.schulercue.com

 

[billiardshot]

Thank Rich93. I did find this site on schuler web http://store.schulercue.com/WSWrapper.jsp?mypage=Shaft.htm

 

[Thierry Layani]

We are told most carom shafts taper are Conical. Mbvl mention in another thread he have shafts with Komori and Shooni Taper. I know Dieckman mention these taper on his site and also Ron Kilby mention Shooni Taper on his site. Here the question beside Mazin Shooni - What other 3 Cushion Players have their own special design shaft taper he play with and what are their specs from joint to tip? Whether American, European, Asian, or Latin Players.

I don't know about naming the taper according to the player but indeed the taper we developped with Frederic Caudron is actually outside from the line of a conical taper, so it's actually much bigger and stronger than a conical taper. As a pool player, for me it hits more like a baseball bat for carom player it seems to be a very nice and strong taper. There is actually 3 taper in the shaft so that with any tip diameter the general taper is pretty much the same. Or else with a conical taper the tip diameter changes too much the general taper.
For the balkline games though the taper is much thinner, closer to a conical taper but even thinner.