A few years back when Earl was still sponsored by Cuetec he came to Knoxville for the Volunteer Classic.
He brings his stuff in and then goes back out to the car and brings in an ARMLOAD of shafts and lays them on the table next to the one he's gonna warm up on. He proceeds to hit a shot unscrew the shaft and curse it and toss it to the end of the table and screw on another shaft from the pile. Rinse... Repeat....
I would say out of the 40 or so shafts in the armload half of them made it to the toss pile before he found 1 that was worth shooting with. I still laugh when I think about it. He had us all laughing and taught us some quite colorful sayings to boot......
Shane would play with a mop handle if Swiffer paid him enough. Scott you know he didn't choose them... They came courting with a check in hand LOL.. Word has it he still uses the shaft from his old cue on the Cuetec butt....... Not sure if that is still true.....