Kielwood Shaft Search
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That looks like a beauty as well.
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Very nice. Very classic.
Thank you.
There is actually a purple inlay in those points.
Different. 5 point cue.
Going with 4 points in the box cue being built. Wanted 5 points again because 5 points is a little different but the boxes in the butt would be too small with a 5 pointer.
because of what you’re asking for
i know and i don’t need to ‘put’ anyone ‘on ignore’ in order to ignore them
like you i love kielwood shafts and i hope yours will arrive eventually
billiards_watch
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Perhaps all those fancy cues the OP has was intended to be shot by the original shafts by the cue maker. If he is being so demanding over weight and balance then one can argue those cues were made with its original shaft and balance for a purpose. What Tim Scruggs deemed as a great hit and feel will be tossed out the window with a KW shaft.
Putting those KW shafts on something doesn't make it instantaneously better. Unless the cue maker, himself, intended it to be hit and be played with a KW shaft.
I have a friend who wants to put a carbon shaft on his 7k cue, loaded with natural and silver. LOL Its his choice at the end of the day but I just find it defeating the purpose. You can just buy any butt and throw a carbon on them and if you can't? Then the cue maker didn't design the cue for that purpose.
If someone let me shoot with their Black Boar then I hope they put the BB shaft on and not a Chinese or Revo shaft. LOL
Then again, I think its blasphemy to put an aftermarket shaft on a custom cue.
Putting those KW shafts on something doesn't make it instantaneously better. Unless the cue maker, himself, intended it to be hit and be played with a KW shaft.
I have a friend who wants to put a carbon shaft on his 7k cue, loaded with natural and silver. LOL Its his choice at the end of the day but I just find it defeating the purpose. You can just buy any butt and throw a carbon on them and if you can't? Then the cue maker didn't design the cue for that purpose.
If someone let me shoot with their Black Boar then I hope they put the BB shaft on and not a Chinese or Revo shaft. LOL
Then again, I think its blasphemy to put an aftermarket shaft on a custom cue.
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Me too….got my fingers crossed but several cue makers have been revealed to be able to do this based on several PM messages from different members that I’ve gotten. And if you think about it, the flip side alternative I brought up, “slow
and expensive” has nothing to do with what I’m asking be built. That’s Hsu’s std lead time stated on the website & order form. But to be fair, I never even contacted him so he might have been able to build exactly what I wanted. The cue makers that were referred to me to contact are not names I’d have come up with and it’s great to have choices where before none.
-the customer is always right
-nobody has found the holy grail yet
-skill at this game is all in the mind
(we can talk for hours about humidity and
cloth and pocket sizes and special cues
-aiming techniques and vision centers and
bouncy rails and drills and coaching)
this is what i am talking about he is known for being extremely accommodating and exact
my shaft is 31” how great is that
I really have no idea. You might be 6’ or taller so it may be well suited. I’m not sure if my KW will be 30” or 29.5”.
Jacoby is making that call. Before I got my Barnhart version (29.5”), I’d never played any shaft except 29” length.
I am a novice at KW shafts or longer shafts for that matter. I’ve strictly played 29” maple shafts with 1” ivory, or resin,
ferrules all my life until getting my 1st KW shaft. Cues are a entirely different matter but KW shafts are still new to me.
The keilwood shafts I got from a maker near me uses small screws in the shaft to increase the weight.
Flakeandrun
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Many of the Chinese and Japanese made KW shafts also have some kind of variable screw-in weight system