Gloves and Carbon fiber shafts

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fish2

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Most pros use a glove when using CF shafts, at least the ones that I have seen on TV. I have both Rhino and Revo and using it without gloves works and find no need to use a glove.
 
Everyone is different, I have very dry and massive hands so never needed a glove. Playing in more tropical, humid places might change that.
 
I've been playing with Rhino shafts and like them fine without a glove, but it's pretty dry here. If I moved back to Virginia I might want a glove. Pros play in a wide variety of conditions, so for consistency sake it makes sense they'd just wear the glove all the time.
 
I have a glove but never use it, company for my case lol. Maybe the pros get paid for wearing the glove.
 
I have sweaty hands. Been using gloves since they were very uncool, used to be the only person in my league that ever used one. Now almost everyone does.

It is less necessary with a carbon shaft for sure, but I still like the consistency in feel it brings regardless of if my hands are sweaty or dry.
 
My first session with the Rhino (first CF shaft), I played with no glove and it was fine.
Second session and it started to get sticky. I use glove with CF shaft and usually glove-less with wood, unless it's really humid, then I'll use gloves as most rooms don't allow powder these days.
Wood is easier to wipe down, CF gets sticky and needs alcohol wipes which is too much to handle during play.
Really, what works for you.
 
I don’t wear a glove 95% of the time but there are environments that are humid enough that even a freshly cleaned CF shaft feels sticky and a glove really helps.
 
fish2 said:
Most pros use a glove when using CF shafts, at least the ones that I have seen on TV. I have both Rhino and Revo and using it without gloves works and find no need to use a glove.
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Good for you.. you want a cookie? Lol I’ve been wearing a glove since they started showing up at the pool halls over 30 years ago. I like to do the same thing all the time for consistency so to me it doesn’t matter the conditions I’m wearing it all the time.. you do you.
 
I never wore a glove until I bought CF. I was using masters chalk and it would get on the shaft and make it sticky. I switched to Taom and a glove and like the feel.

I live in Florida, though...
 
I just started wearing a glove when I shoot , I'm old fashioned and still play with a wood cue , I've got a JP cue that I've got a Rogue shaft for and I like it but I like wood shafts better go figure !
I'll add that with my rheumatoid arthritis and the shots I give myself for it and the glove make making a bridge and holding onto my cue tolerable ha ha
 
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I was at a tournament about a month ago and also found my carbon fiber shaft cold to the touch. I don't think it affected me much, played well enough in the tournament but didn't like the cold feeling it had. I just started using one early this summer, so that hadn't come up yet. I always thought of a wearing the glove as something to wear when it's hot and sticky, which isn't that common in Montana. But may have to consider wearing one when it's cold, or just go back to wood, which I've been doing lately.

Good luck with the RA, Rusty. I hope it doesn't slow you down too much. MT isn't the most forgiving place for it. I don't know if I have the early stages of it, but know my hands hurt a lot more when it starts to turn cold like it has this week.
 
I used a glove before CF shafts were ever made, I just liked the consistency of wearing the glove and how it made the shaft feel slick all the time so there was no adjustment moving to CF, I do know players who use CF without wearing gloves, so much like most billiard gear, be willing to try things with an open mind, give it a week minimum, if it still doesn't work for you, no amount of advertising will make you try it again, that piece of gear just doesn't work for you 😉
 
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I used a glove before CF shafts were ever made, I just liked the consistency of wearing the glove and how it made the shaft feel slick all the time so there was no adjustment moving to CF, I do know players who use CF without wearing gloves, so much like most billiard gear, be willing to try things with an open mind, give it a week minimum, if it still doesn't work for you, no amount of advertising will make you try it again, that piece of gear just doesn't work for you 😉
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Got for years.. no decades people would make jokes about players wearing gloves lol to me it just made sense. No powder.. no wiping your cue down all the time. Same feel no matter what the situation was.
 
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