Someone posted that a Kielwood shaft doesn’t elevate your level of pool skills that is absolutely correct.
You know what you know and don’t know what you do not know, i.e.,pool skills. There’s no disputing that.
Nonetheless, Kielwood shafts that are built to match your pool cue butt will enable you to play better pool
without elevating your pool skills. You will be able to aim tighter and shoot straighter on cut shots and center
ball just seems friendlier because you can send the cue ball seemingly straighter, or so it appears to one’s eye.
The shaft doesn’t elevate your skills but really helps you to play angles more than English to get shape. You’ll
more reliably and confidently send the cue ball 7-8-9’ to hit an object ball with either inside or running English
or follow, feather the CB off the rail for a frozen OB and pretty much any shot you can come up with.
However, there is a footnote to getting a KW shaft. Most KW shafts are likely lighter than your cue’s orig. maple
shafts. If you are going to get a KW shaft, strive to get one that’s at least the same weight as your current shaft.
That isn’t going to be as easy as it seems if you are playing with old growth maple shafts that tend to be heavier.
I currently have 4 KW shafts and 3 of the 4 are four ounces while the other is 3.82 ozs. and all are flat faced joints.
The lightest KW shaft is .15 ozs lighter than one of my maple shafts and the others match my original maple shafts.
If I were ordering a cue, I’d ask the cue maker to build a KW to be the same weight as a maple shaft would turn out.
KW shafts don’t have to be lighter than your maple shafts despite what others tell you. The cue maker needs to have a heavier blank instead of randomly choosing one from inventory. The builder has to be selective when picking a blank.
Kielwood is the best thing that happened for wood shafts that I can think of. Although CF is the rage, it does not feel as
great as wood without a glove in a closed bridge, the acoustics suck, the aim picture isn’t as pleasing to me and although
CF deflection is lower than Kielwood, the difference seems rather minuscule to me versus Kielwood.