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What question would YOU ask the owner of a shooting robot to resolve?
(I am curious about the questions, and not restarting debates.)

I'll start with some recent topics:

Do hard tips reduce squirt? (Yeah, yeah,I hear the jokes already....)
Do heavy cues result in bigger breaks?
Are Brand X balls better (whatever that means) than Brand Y?
Are full-splice cues really better than no-splice cues? (I know, heresy....)

Yours?
 
Are laminated shafts more consistent than solid maple shafts?

How do typical carom shafts (conical taper, small tip, short light ferrule) compare to various low squirt shafts (Predator, OB) with respect to squirt and consistency? In other words, why haven't carom players jumped on the aftermarket shaft bandwagon?
 
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Which, if any, of the following can produce more spin?

1. One cue vs. another (with the same tip)

2. "Accelerating through" the CB

3. Longer contact time

4. More followthrough

I think I know the answer, but I'd like to finally have some definitive proof to show.

pj
chgo
 
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Rich93

About the carom market.

We ahve built several OB carom shafts, and their owners love them. The problem comes in with volume. What makes it possible to bring shafts to the market is economy of scale. We would need to build high volumes of the same product to keep the costs in line and make it profitable. Not only is the carom cue market small compared to the pool cue market, but the variety of joint configurations and sizes makes it even more difficult.

With all that said, I would love to sell our cue shafts to the carom market. All I can say is that demand is king. If we get enough demand for them, we will build them.


Thanks

Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com
 
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Rich93

About the carom market.

We ahve built several OB carom shafts, and their owners love them. The problem comes in with volume. What makes it possible to bring shafts to the market is economy of scale. We would need to build high volumes of the same product to keep the costs in line and make it profitable. Not only is the carom cue market small compared to the pool cue market, but the variety of joint configurations and sizes makes it even more difficult.

With all that said, I would love to sell our cue shafts to the carom market. All I can say is that demand is king. If we get enough demand for them, we will build them.


Thanks

Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com
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Thanks for the explanation - it makes sense, and I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
 
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