Lowest deflection kielwood

skor said:
Yes, they switched back to wood but not kielwood.
One of the reasons to stay with wood is if you don't like to use a glove, with kielwood you need to use a glove (Yes I know there some out there who use kielwood and cf without a glove but they are the exceptional), Kielwood maybe smooth but not as slick as regular wood or CF and it catches my skin of the bridge hand. CF is the smoother and slickest but catches dirt and sweat fast and gets sticky and just wiping it down with a towel like standard wood doesn't work, got to get those alcohol wipes out and it's just a hustle during play that I just go for the glove.

I go back and forth between CF and LD wood when it matters like in a league or a tournament, and once in a while my kielwood or just standard maple when I just like to fool around.
Lately I'm using my old trusted 314-2 shafts more, I think that I just prefer to avoid the glove.
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Not sure what you are watching, but I see more than a few high-level players playing with Kielwood now. Justin, Tyler, Billy, Rodney, Johnny, occasionally Corey come to mind, I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of. There are a number in WPBA using them and if you watch any of the Ultimate Pool Open events it appears about 50% of those guys are using it.
 
dendweller said:
Don't know, but it makes sense that brittle wood would be more prone to cracking if cored. The cf tube would probably help if it was cored the same diameter but it would probably raise deflection because it would be more end mass.
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I've watched Bergman play a few of the Ultimate Pool open event. He breaks 8 ball racks pretty hard with his playing cue. Haven't seen one explode yet.
 
Jerry R said:
I've watched Bergman play a few of the Ultimate Pool open event. He breaks 8 ball racks pretty hard with his playing cue. Haven't seen one explode yet.
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By the way, keep in mind, I'm no expert in roasted wood, just relaying something one of the cuemakers in the cuemaker section said that seemed to make sense to me.
 
What are the advantages of wood over cf or kw? I see alot of players use cf for a while, only to go back to wood because they enjoy the feel better. I like both, personally, and maybe wood slightly more.
 
SeniorTom said:
What are the advantages of wood over cf or kw? I see alot of players use cf for a while, only to go back to wood because they enjoy the feel better. I like both, personally, and maybe wood slightly more.
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it's not carbon fiber. other than that, plainly feel and aesthetics. mind you I don't have any experience of it yet but based it on what people here talked about.
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
it's not carbon fiber. other than that, plainly feel and aesthetics. mind you I don't have any experience of it yet but based it on what people here talked about.
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I guess my point was that people enjoy the feel of wood, and how it does deflect the ball. Deflection is not a bad thing if you know how to use it?, and it also feels good to people. I used a friend's KW yesterday, it's sound was a bit different, but the biggest aspect that I liked about it was the aesthetics, how it 'can' compliment the color scheme.
 
SeniorTom said:
I guess my point was that people enjoy the feel of wood, and how it does deflect the ball. Deflection is not a bad thing if you know how to use it?, and it also feels good to people. I used a friend's KW yesterday, it's sound was a bit different, but the biggest aspect that I liked about it was the aesthetics, how it 'can' compliment the color scheme.
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my builder swears by it as far as LD goes. he described it as something like playing with an LD CF. funny though that his main selling point was saying it looks beautiful.
 
Coos Cues said:
No one here has that ability. It's all opinion and subjective.
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100%. Unless you are using a robot to strike the ball and a jig to set it up, "deflection" tests are just silly. They just break down to a guy guessing where and how hard he is hitting at a ruler taped to the short rail. Testing requires perfect consistency, something humans cannot do.
 
BobPA said:
100%. Unless you are using a robot to strike the ball and a jig to set it up, "deflection" tests are just silly. They just break down to a guy guessing where and how hard he is hitting at a ruler taped to the short rail. Testing requires perfect consistency, something humans cannot do.
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I'm pretty close to a perfect stroke, I would be glad to test out anybody's kw, for a fee of course!
 
Jerry R said:
Not sure what you are watching, but I see more than a few high-level players playing with Kielwood now. Justin, Tyler, Billy, Rodney, Johnny, occasionally Corey come to mind, I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of. There are a number in WPBA using them and if you watch any of the Ultimate Pool Open events it appears about 50% of those guys are using it.
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Non of them are top players today on the international level
 
skor said:
Not all CF are LD at the same level, some not at all
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Truer words have never been spoken. Some people swear by the Rhino and Cynergy and when I took a couple shots with them, they had soooo much deflection.

I play with a Z3 so my opinion might be skewed since it's one of the lowest deflection shafts on the market. To me, the Revo had the lowest deflection when it comes to CF, everything else is on a lower tier, however, they might have better feel, feedback, sound, etc.
 
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