How do aged pool shafts play?

[Chopdoc]

i couldnt tell you all my shafts are from out of business or long dead cue makers with funny foreign names. i do have a couple from 1980 but they are too new to use yet.

Last week at the local 9 ball tournament I was playing my old Joss, a guy said he would never bring a cue like my old Joss to the pool hall. He was playing with a $2,000 Predator.

I told him his cue wasn't old enough yet and that I might consider it when it had matured...in 30 years or so.

1980? I would play them once in a while, and store them near the older ones so they learn something.

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[Bavafongoul]

Often times a lot better than its original owner.

 

[cuesblues]

Tomato stakes are fine but this is what happened to me last time I used a cue shaft in my greenhouse.

You guessed it

Octomatoes

That had nothing to do with using old shaftwood for tomato stakes.
It's what happened when Jack traded his cue at the pool hall for 5 magic beans

 

[spktur]

I found these growing under the stairs about twenty years ago, I keep checking but they haven't changed much.

 

[Cuebuddy]

Well, if you can grow a full set you have a money making proposition there. :thumbup:

But how do they play?

Well the old shaft I staked them with was a Meucci so the Octomatos play a little mushy or rather moochi hahahhhhhaaahhah.

That had nothing to do with using old shaftwood for tomato stakes.
It's what happened when Jack traded his cue at the pool hall for 5 magic beans

This is more what I have found

 

[mjantti]

They leak a bit after usage and not as stiff as they used to be.

 

[Ron Padilla]

I think some are saying that in time they will dribble the shot and the owner is a little more like a eunuch!