OLD STYLE SHAFTS

CESSNA10

CESSNA10

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Just curious how many people still use the old style 13mm shafts that
are stiff and not low deflection
 
I use what came with my players sneaky,
A 12.75 maple. Stiff as heck and I love it,
I don't know a thing about low deflection or feel compelled to try it
 
12.7mm, standard maple, ivory ferrules.

There are some shots where I appreciate a little more deflection.
 
Another standard wood user here, though I have many shafts with a variety of ferrule, tip type and diameter choices.
 
I use standard shafts to and 12.5 is what I prefer. I guess all mine are Maple. My Son plays with a Meucci Ultimate Weapon Pro that is L/D. It does play nice , I believe it is a 11.75
 
measureman said:
I've been playing standard Maple shafts for 60 years.
why change?
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I agree. I don't believe low deflection shafts are better, they are just different. I have one and played with it for a while but changing decades of ingrained muscle memory to adjust didn't work well for me. I'm too old to reinvent my game. I'm happy with my regular maple shafts.
 
My playing shafts are Szamboti, Schick, and Showman. All 13+ mm, 4+ oz., w/ natural ferrules and hard tips. I own a Predator 314-2 but never felt a reason to switch from my favorites.
 
I have a standard maple shaft on my Josey cue. it's 13mm. But, as Keith says in this short video, some cues deflect less. Keith a believer in stiff hit and larger diameter shafts. On his website under the repairs section, it says Keith doesn't like to turn shafts smaller than 12.6 mm. Who am I to argue with the opinion of this highly regarded cue builder?

JOSEY CUSTOM CUES - YouTube

Seems to me that even the "low deflection" carbon fiber shafts, still deflect some, so it's still an adjustment when using english?
Not that it really matters with my low skill level ability. My playing is for recreational purposes only.
 
I like regular maple shafts from 12.5 to 13 mm. As others have said, all shafts deflect some, so you have to take deflection into account no matter what. If a cue deflects less, and you have to adjust less, there may be more margin of error, but I never felt like LD shafts made me shoot better. On the other hand, regular shafts feel right and I like breaking with them.
 
CESSNA10 said:
Just curious how many people still use the old style 13mm shafts that
are stiff and not low deflection
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I started with one close to that and a bad installer made it a 12.5mm back in the 90s. I've used the same rock hard maple shaft since then but recently got a hsunami kielwood shaft and I love it. It's hard to explain, it's LD, but it feels much more like a regular shaft. It has the right feel and rigidity. I mean, it is solid maple, just baked in the kiln so no wonder it feels similar. To someone that doesn't give two rips about LD, this is a very nice shaft and much easier to adapt to than the whippy LD shafts I had tried in the past. I'm not even a fan of the wooden sectioned shafts (like the pie shaped ones predator does) but this kielwood is quite a player. It seems to take the half masse shots I throw at it and super thin cuts with outside that gave me fits on a whippier LD shaft I tried in the past.
 
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