dave st.pierre
dave st.pierre
How good would a purple heart shaft be for a playing shaft? Compared to one made of maple!
P heart shaft
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The general feeling is they can make decent break or jump shafts, but not very good playing shafts.
I'm sure someone will come along and disagree.
Kelly
I've also tried it and agree with Kim mostly as my p heart shaft is almost always on my break/ jump cue however, I do really like using my Purple heart shaft on my player when I'm shooting with a big old bar table ball. I can't tell you how much fun that added weight up front makes moving the ball around.
They hit very stiff, don't think they make a great playing shaft at least not for me. I have also tried an Ebony Shaft and it played the same way only heavier and much more expensive.
In my opinion Maple or Ash are best for playing shafts, with my preference being well aged (Old) maple.
JIMO
It'll be too heavy and it'd look gay.
No way, not if you wore a pink shirt.
I turned a PH shaft down to @ 11.8 mm and it was still heavy and didnt play all that great. Leave it for breaking and jump shafts 
Purple Heart shafts
They hit like a mini I-Beam. Great for busting balls, but too hard to give one a sense of feel for the cue ball position in my opinion. I only sell them for break or jump cues. And one of my customers wears his lavender ensemble when using his Purple Heart shaft ! Very chic!
They hit like a mini I-Beam. Great for busting balls, but too hard to give one a sense of feel for the cue ball position in my opinion. I only sell them for break or jump cues. And one of my customers wears his lavender ensemble when using his Purple Heart shaft ! Very chic!
I personally only like them for break shafts. They jump good too, but are a little heavy for that. When I used to sell the Purple Heart shaft blanks there were some people who liked to play with them. They were popular among some of my Canadian customers for a while and they were making playing shafts out of them as well as break shafts. When you go down to small diameters, they are not as whippy as maple. So my guess is they were using them in small diameter pool cue shafts or snooker cue shafts. They shoot most shots okay except for the draw shot and on that shot they are too weak on for me to like them for regular playing shafts.
The main reason I introduced Purple Heart as a breaking shaft was I saw Jimmy Mataya breaking with an Ebony shaft at the pro events I was working on cues at many years ago. His break was pretty powerful with it and it made me want to try it. So after I started pricing ebony in 30" pieces, I decided to experiment and find a different stiff hitting shaft wood that was not so expensive. Purple Heart was the one I settled in on and started selling the blanks. It was pretty rough on the tooling and I hate the dust, so after I went to the Saw machine for tapering I quit selling them as blanks.
The main reason I introduced Purple Heart as a breaking shaft was I saw Jimmy Mataya breaking with an Ebony shaft at the pro events I was working on cues at many years ago. His break was pretty powerful with it and it made me want to try it. So after I started pricing ebony in 30" pieces, I decided to experiment and find a different stiff hitting shaft wood that was not so expensive. Purple Heart was the one I settled in on and started selling the blanks. It was pretty rough on the tooling and I hate the dust, so after I went to the Saw machine for tapering I quit selling them as blanks.
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