Coring Shafts

[Bavafongoul]

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I just ordered a Meucci Kielwood shaft. I contacted them after reading thru this thread and they answered "No, we do not put foam in the tip end of our Kielwood shafts." I also asked the weight and was told they are all around 4oz. Very nice to be able to custom order thru the website and they offer a discount for Veterans.

I found that 29.5” and 30” shafts are often required by some brands to produce a 4 ozs.and heavier Kielwood shafts.

Custom cue makers do a better job at selecting heavier blanks and can build 29” KW just as heavy. It always comes
down to the individual building the shaft & the available wood inventory. There isn’t any good reason to settle for less
or having to order a 13mm shaft instead of a thinner 12.5mm shaft that is always going to be lighter because of mass.

 

[Gilbertfan81]

Cory Barhart, Jim Pierce, SCDiver2112, Jacoby Cues, Schmelke Cues and others if you look.
I won’t name the cue makers that told me what I wanted could not be built without coring.

They were all talking out of their ass because it took awhile, but I ultimately located builders
that had no difficulty building a heavier uncored KW shaft and no weight had to be added.

Now go buy whatever you want and hopefully are delighted with the outcome. I am merely
forewarning readers that there’s cue builders that are either lazy, ignorant or just untruthful.

I can’t know how you feel about this but when someone tells me something cannot be done
& then I find someone that builds what I want, I question the other person’s cue building skills.

Jacoby cores their keilwood shafts with balsa wood. 100 percent sure about this. I called and asked during the ordering process of a custom keilwood for my Mottey. The purpose is to reduce weight and front end mass. Their ferrules also have small drillings through them to reduce weight. This reduces front and mass, therefore reducing squirt that’s the main purpose of.keilwood shafts. Along with more power like carbon.