Two wood shafts imho. You can get any carbon shaft you want later on. The market is flooded. Wood shafts especially with ring work that match up with your cue are getting harder to come by especially from top tier makers. Also if your going to use a CF shaft I don't see the point of a custom butt. I would just go production. Custom for me is old school wood all the way. When I drop some coin on a tasc definitely getting two wood 30 inch shafts from Pete.
I would order two wood shafts, if I was in market for Carbon. Local guy who is old, retired, does custom Carbon Shafts for 200.00 bucks, if you want Super Tip the uncharged is 15-20 bucks.
Every person who has this guys no name CF Shafts Just loves.
It's fucking sacrilege!. I'd love to see the look on the cuemakers face when he puts the chinese blank on his wonderfully crafted, aged and inlayed wood butt. That's got to be heartbreaking. Or maybe he doesn't care, I don't know him. I'd feel sick to my stomach, if it was me. If he actually manufactured the blank, it would be slightly different, but still...Kind of like a plywood or carbon violin.
It’s not bargain basement by any means, but I love the hit of my Becue shaft on my 10k Boar. My ferrule-less shaft from Tony plays great too don’t get me wrong.Lol, putting a cf shaft on a custom cue? That's just bonkers. Can't wait to see a 10 k black boar with a bargain basement Chinese carbon fiber shaft on it! If the cuemaker finishes it and adapts it to the cue or not is just not the point.
In a matter of time most cues will be "all" carbon anyway, shaft and butt. For a collectors item, I think I'd much rather have an all wood cue. As for playing, I want all wood there too, but if I were to go with carbon, it would be carbon all the way. When you pay custom prices, you should expect to get properly aged and selected wood shafts. Not some carbon blank the guy put a joint on. Just my opinion. Plastics and carbon fiber decay, quite badly with time. Properly cared for, a wooden cue could last almost forever.
You want carbon fiber, buy a Cuetec. Best bang for the buck. When you get sick of the "tink" and it starts to degrade, chuck it in the bin and buy another
I have to assume you were fooled by the video. Ned's finish is absolutely first class. His cues perform the "hit" on the cue ball is as good as the best.
Keep in mind some of these CF shafts cost more than a shaft you order from Black Boar orLol, putting a cf shaft on a custom cue? That's just bonkers. Can't wait to see a 10 k black boar with a bargain basement Chinese carbon fiber shaft on it! If the cuemaker finishes it and adapts it to the cue or not is just not the point.
In a matter of time most cues will be "all" carbon anyway, shaft and butt. For a collectors item, I think I'd much rather have an all wood cue. As for playing, I want all wood there too, but if I were to go with carbon, it would be carbon all the way. When you pay custom prices, you should expect to get properly aged and selected wood shafts. Not some carbon blank the guy put a joint on. Just my opinion. Plastics and carbon fiber decay, quite badly with time. Properly cared for, a wooden cue could last almost forever.
You want carbon fiber, buy a Cuetec. Best bang for the buck. When you get sick of the "tink" and it starts to degrade, chuck it in the bin and buy another
I've had a hard time finding information on his CF shafts. Would you consider them LD, and how do you order one?
Check him out on Ned Morris on Facebook. He has contact information there
So your statement is that you like the Evolution shaft. But your thread is asking a question, what would someone else would purchase?
But then I've got to ask, what is the point? Why not just buy a Cuetec or a Becue? You're not getting a Black Boar playing experience anyway. You're getting a Becue. To me it would be a little like having a luxury gearstick in your Toyota. It's still a Toyota, Toyotas are great, but the gearstick is not really contributing much but looks, even if it came from a Rolls Royce. I mean, if you want to do it, nothing is stopping you and tastes are different. The fact that to me it looks ridiculous is just my opinion, nothing else.
The comparison to tennis is not valid.
The point is that the flexing (or not) of the pool cue doesn't contribute as much to the power as a tennis racket or golf club shaft. I don't have to be empowered to have an opinion. Whatever can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence, as Christopher Hitchens famously said. I've seen zero evidence that carbon shafts or cues have anywhere NEAR the same effects as changing a tennis racket into carbon from wood. So I don't have to be especially "empowered" by the high council of pool cue fanciers to dismiss claims of that nature. If evidence were to be provided, I'd test the claims, then revise or keep my opinion. So far, nothing but opinion and anecdotal evidence have been provided, so I provide my own, which you are likewise free to dismiss.
Well "the way I see it" is the whole point of my post, isn't that the whole reason for posting on a forum such as this? Anyway, putting a high price on something doesn't necessarily make it a higher value to me, in the sense of making it desirable. A pool cue gets a high value in my eyes if it helps me play better or is beautifully crafted with materials that I like and that are rare. Secondarily comes the sentimental factor of liking the cuebuilder or admiring the process of cuemaking. So if someone suddenly cranked up the price of Cuetecs to 5k, I'd give zero fucks, no matter how many people bought them. If you are buying pool cues merely as a monetary investment, then I don't have anything to add, as I don't have much knowledge in that field. It seems risky to me, that is all I have to say on that front.
The evolution of tennis racquets changed the game. I feel my CF shaft is better than wood shafts but not what I would consider revolutionary. I get low deflection but without giving up accuracy. I've played with a low deflection wood shaft (314-3) and felt I was giving up accuracy. I've played with wood shafts that seemed to make potting balls effortless. With the carbon I have both. I don't feel like I gain noticeable power, if any. There may be an LD wood shaft that I can shoot as accurately, to be honest, I would prefer one if I could perform as well. The hit feels better to me and I prefer the feel of wood sliding on my bridge hand. At some point I will probably try another wood shaft but I'm still learning this carbon shaft. It's even possible that after learning to shoot sidespin with this shaft, I will be able to adapt to with shafts with more deflection.
