help with schon taper

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I trying to order a custom schon shaft for my schon ltd,so I emailed Evan Clarke telling him the specs of the shaft I would like him to make:
Among these specs, there is "strong european taper". He replied <<Ok,I could do that,the only problem is that there is a different european taper for each european,so I will need specification>>.
Now,I want the taper to be similar to ray schuler's european taper (I've read its description on its site),but I have no idea of its measures...
And its not very kind to ask a cuemaker to build a shaft similar to an another cumaker's one, am I right ?
Any hint?
 
How do you know this is what you want? What I mean is, do you have a cue that has this type of taper, and you like how it plays? If you do, or you can get your hands on a cue with the taper you like, take the shaft, measure the diameters at equal lengths (cheap calipers with plastic jaws and you won't scar up the shaft), say every 2 inches from end to end. You can then graph the line on some good graph paper or on a computer, judge where the change of taper is happening, and how much by some simple math, and report that to your cue maker. The information would be like first 2 inches from tip no taper, next 6 inches so many thousands of an inch increase per inch, next 8 inches ...etc.

Not a cuemaker, just a wannabe, so maybe someone with more knowledge will respond also..
Kelly



Master said:
I trying to order a custom schon shaft for my schon ltd,so I emailed Evan Clarke telling him the specs of the shaft I would like him to make:
Among these specs, there is "strong european taper". He replied <<Ok,I could do that,the only problem is that there is a different european taper for each european,so I will need specification>>.
Now,I want the taper to be similar to ray schuler's european taper (I've read its description on its site),but I have no idea of its measures...
And its not very kind to ask a cuemaker to build a shaft similar to an another cumaker's one, am I right ?
Any hint?
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The real problem is that I live in Italy,and I don't have any chanche to try a similar shaft , I know that I want my shaft to be like that only basing on the knowledge gathered from this site and other people in internet.
Never seen any pool cue with conical taper , Just billiard cues, this is why I'm asking the measures it should have.
 
If It's just a straight taper, with no ajustment in the playing area of the shaft, then a maker could probably figure it out from three measurements. lenth, joint dia., and ferulle dia.

Custom tapers, I don't know what most makers do outside their own tapers. I do a few custom retapers for league players ocasionally, but I prefer to have a shaft they like to get an idea of the taper they want. That way they know that's what they want, and I can get something close. They don't always come out exactly the same, but My intention is not to do a complete duplication, just something close. Greg
 
The schuler shaft he is asking about is not quite conical. Isn't Ray's son(s)/family making cues in his name? You can try emailing them. I believe the web site is still active. You can ask about the taper measurements, at what points the tapers change, and what rates of changes. They might tell you the info directly.
Kelly
 
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