Louie swore by those early cues of Bob's. Finally beat Buddy using one.
Nuff said.
keilwood for suckers
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Nuff said.
I didn't know you could get a tongue that deep in a cheek.
I have no explanation for the shaft breaking off. No apparent past damage or weakness and I saw the tap myself it was just enough to roll a ball from just outside the kitchen to the racking area. We have all done it thousands of times in all likelihood. I didn't want it done because it risked a tiny dent in the shaft, breaking it never crossed my mind.
My older brother had been in the army a couple years and in that time pool had became much more than a game to me, it produced two or three times the income of my day job most weeks. My stick wasn't a toy. However, it was the only quality stick at my house and we were playing on my home table so I was passing it back and forth. There wasn't anything leading up to the stick breaking. We had been playing eight ball normally for maybe an hour or so.
I was furious when the stick broke but not at my brother. The stick shouldn't have broken. Never the less, I had won low thousands with that shaft, I was currently finely tuned to it, and the loss was a blow. When I explained to my brother why I was upset he understood and offered to buy a replacement but of course it wasn't that simple.
I wouldn't let him buy a shaft both because I didn't hold him responsible for the shaft breaking and it was a crazy fluke. I replaced the entire cue and as expected it took several months to get back to the level of shape I had been playing. Very few people test hit my cue after that and nobody played with my personal cue from then to now.
Hu
My older brother had been in the army a couple years and in that time pool had became much more than a game to me, it produced two or three times the income of my day job most weeks. My stick wasn't a toy. However, it was the only quality stick at my house and we were playing on my home table so I was passing it back and forth. There wasn't anything leading up to the stick breaking. We had been playing eight ball normally for maybe an hour or so.
I was furious when the stick broke but not at my brother. The stick shouldn't have broken. Never the less, I had won low thousands with that shaft, I was currently finely tuned to it, and the loss was a blow. When I explained to my brother why I was upset he understood and offered to buy a replacement but of course it wasn't that simple.
I wouldn't let him buy a shaft both because I didn't hold him responsible for the shaft breaking and it was a crazy fluke. I replaced the entire cue and as expected it took several months to get back to the level of shape I had been playing. Very few people test hit my cue after that and nobody played with my personal cue from then to now.
Hu
billiards_watch
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I wouldn't mind a carbon shaft but I find that you can't just slap it on any butt. I've put one on my Mezz and there is no different than the Mezz wood shafts. I've also played one on a buddy's full splice cue and it shoots great on it. I'm sure I can get use to it and figure out the nuances of it but I'm trying to cut back on the pool equipment. LOL
I like to try new equipment and it would be great to review products but I am usually a one or two cue kind of a guy.
I like to try new equipment and it would be great to review products but I am usually a one or two cue kind of a guy.
I have a cynergy shaft. Can't really say I like it or dislike it. It is 11.8 but gets thicker too quickly to suit me. I would like to have a shaft about ten mm in my bridge hand. If that meant a nine mm tip I could learn to live with it. I keep thinking that there is no reason a carbon fiber shaft can't have an internal taper or compound tapers. Some may have such a design already but I haven't heard of anyone promoting such a thing.
Hu
Hu
From Predator’s web site, about their new shaft:
Centro’s cutting-edge front-end carbon core shaft technology reduces guesswork, allowing the cue ball to push the shaft aside and reducing cue ball deflection. Its forgiveness makes it easier to pocket more balls with confidence.
Centro’s cutting-edge front-end carbon core shaft technology reduces guesswork, allowing the cue ball to push the shaft aside and reducing cue ball deflection. Its forgiveness makes it easier to pocket more balls with confidence.
Right. 
Maybe I misunderstand forgiveness and stiffness?
billiards_watch
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There is no coming back from this..
Our beloved game is so equipment focused.
Its becoming like golf with new drivers every year.
Why can't they just give me a sales pitch with break cues. LOL
Just duct tape a pencil to the end of your shaft Hu. Eraser side out.
Sounds like an excellent way to market a shaft that's basically hollow on the end. Wow. What a concept. Paying extra for a bit of air.
One born every minute.
One your wife never gives, the other she demands.Maybe I misunderstand forgiveness and stiffness?
Lissen to me nau. (points)
Not nau I have a headache.
Not nau I have a headache.
OK, off topic and off color but y'all started it!
A woman was visiting a home in Mississippi on business and was astonished at the racial abuse the black maid tolerated. When the mistress of the home was out of the room for a moment the visitor asked the maid how she had tolerated that abuse for years. "All these years I have been swapping her birth control pills for aspirin. Only woman alive with eight kids and never had a headache!
Hu