Pechauer Performace Plus Shaft

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twal

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I just got an email yesterday from Pechauer that they just released a new shaft call the Performace Plus shaft.

I am curious becuase I am a equpiment junkie :D

Has anyone tried this out? I just know someone in AZ world has.
What do you think?

So far I see just limited information on it.
 
Played with it, one of the better LD shafts I have tried, liked it better than the Predators and most OB shafts I played with. Don't have it on my cue but did try it on someone elses Pechauer.
 
I don't know anything about the performance plus shaft. All I'll say is I bought a pechauer pro series sneaky Pete for $270 two weeks ago and Holy Shit! This thing is a magic wand! I previously played with a standard maple shaft McDermott I payed $170 for. I like it, but this pechauer is the finest piece of wood I've ever touched. It's actually transformed my stroke. I let it do part of the work I used to do.
 
His Boy Elroy said:
I don't know anything about the performance plus shaft. All I'll say is I bought a pechauer pro series sneaky Pete for $270 two weeks ago and Holy Shit! This thing is a magic wand! I previously played with a standard maple shaft McDermott I payed $170 for. I like it, but this pechauer is the finest piece of wood I've ever touched. It's actually transformed my stroke. I let it do part of the work I used to do.
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Are you in sales :thumbup:

I am really looking to for any feed back from anyone who has tried it.
What is it similar to? Stiifer than X or not as stiff as X.
 
Nope, I'm not in sales. I'm 53 years old. My dad put a fine pool table in the basement when I was 11. I still live in the same house. I'll estimate I've played on that table for 10,000 hours. I've spent 2 hours of my life in a pool hall. Four these reasons I'm both very knowledgeable about some aspects of this game and very naive about other aspects. for the last twenty years I've been playing with a cue I bought at J.C. Pennys for $50. It was one of their top of the line models and a fine cue at that. A few months ago I bought the Mcdermott. It definitely had a better feel to it. Although this was the case it didn't really really improve my game much other than psychologically. When a cue has a better feel to it, you feel better overall about all aspects of the game. In reality though , it didn't improve my ball striking ability above my previous cue. I'm glad I bought it though and I'm still quite fond of it. So recently I decided I wanted to go a little higher up. I didn't want to go with A predator or mezz because I've been playing with a regular deflection shaft for 42 years and I didn't want to pay all that money and end up disappointed. I didn't want to go with an OB because their maple shafts, while not being advertised as low deflection, are said by many too be stiffer than most other maple shaft cues. Now maybe if I had bought one of these stiffer cues I would have loved it. It's just that I didn't want to take the chance of paying all that money and being disappointed after playing with a regular deflection cue for 42 years. So then I decided to go with Shon, until I discovered that they use elephant ivory in their expensive models. That's an ethical issue for me and there was no way I was going to buy one of their cues. So After reading much about penchauer, basically at these forums, I decided to go with them. I bought the sneaky Pete, because if I'm going to pay $270 for quality I have no desire to pay anything for decoration. Anyhow, this thing cost $100 more than my McDermott, which as I said I'm still quite fond of, but it is light years ahead of the McDermott as far as quality. The weight is in the butt and it has a balance and a smothness which is amazing. I can say without question it has tangibly improved my game. As I said, I'm both very knowledgeable and naive about this game, so I don't know what "x" is.
 
His Boy Elroy said:
Nope, I'm not in sales. I'm 53 years old. My dad put a fine pool table in the basement when I was 11. I still live in the same house. I'll estimate I've played on that table for 10,000 hours. I've spent 2 hours of my life in a pool hall. Four these reasons I'm both very knowledgeable about some aspects of this game and very naive about other aspects. for the last twenty years I've been playing with a cue I bought at J.C. Pennys for $50. It was one of their top of the line models and a fine cue at that. A few months ago I bought the Mcdermott. It definitely had a better feel to it. Although this was the case it didn't really really improve my game much other than psychologically. When a cue has a better feel to it, you feel better overall about all aspects of the game. In reality though , it didn't improve my ball striking ability above my previous cue. I'm glad I bought it though and I'm still quite fond of it. So recently I decided I wanted to go a little higher up. I didn't want to go with A predator or mezz because I've been playing with a regular deflection shaft for 42 years and I didn't want to pay all that money and end up disappointed. I didn't want to go with an OB because their maple shafts, while not being advertised as low deflection, are said by many too be stiffer than most other maple shaft cues. Now maybe if I had bought one of these stiffer cues I would have loved it. It's just that I didn't want to take the chance of paying all that money and being disappointed after playing with a regular deflection cue for 42 years. So then I decided to go with Shon, until I discovered that they use elephant ivory in their expensive models. That's an ethical issue for me and there was no way I was going to buy one of their cues. So After reading much about penchauer, basically at these forums, I decided to go with them. I bought the sneaky Pete, because if I'm going to pay $270 for quality I have no desire to pay anything for decoration. Anyhow, this thing cost $100 more than my McDermott, which as I said I'm still quite fond of, but it is light years ahead of the McDermott as far as quality. The weight is in the butt and it has a balance and a smothness which is amazing. I can say without question it has tangibly improved my game. As I said, I'm both very knowledgeable and naive about this game, so I don't know what "x" is.
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Waste of pool playing to never play outside your house. Like playing baskeball and just shooting free throws in your back yard for 10 years.

OB shafts are not stiff at all, even their new models. I've had an original OB on my cue for a few weeks and it was very flexible, felt like a Meucci or a Samsara shaft. I've shot a bit with the newer model on a Pechauer butt (not my cue) and it played better but has a smooth hit to it with a lot less whipiness, not any stiffer hit than my regular shafts.
 
hang-the-9 said:
Waste of pool playing to never play outside your house. Like playing baskeball and just shooting free throws in your back yard for 10 years.

OB shafts are not stiff at all, even their new models. I've had an original OB on my cue for a few weeks and it was very flexible, felt like a Meucci or a Samsara shaft. I've shot a bit with the newer model on a Pechauer butt (not my cue) and it played better but has a smooth hit to it with a lot less whipiness, not any stiffer hit than my regular shafts.
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Lol - I cherish the time I spent alone in my backyard shooting free throws as a kid. I wasn't much of a basketball player. When I would run up and down the court I'd get winded before the other players. I couldn't throw a pass without it getting intercepted. If someone passed the ball to me too hard it would bounce off my hands and go out of bounds - but I could sure shoot the ball. So I decided to stop playing in games and stay in my backyard and just shoot. When I was 18 I invented a method of free throw shooting where I would simply never miss until I lost my poise. I could make a hundred in a row. The method was so unorthodox I never showed it to anyone. It looked like I was offering the ball to the gods. I knew I could never teach it to anyone and it would be ridiculed so I kept it to myself, but I considered that an accomplishment and not a waste of time at all. When you become an adult you don't want to be seen in your back yard shooting free throws for hours so I turned my attention and this thing I have for this type of thing to the pool table. I can't play pool games. I lack the mental aptitude. If you throw 5 balls on the table I can't for the life of me figure out a pattern to put them in; but I can sure pocket balls when I have open shots. Again I'm lol.
 
His Boy Elroy said:
I can't play pool games. I lack the mental aptitude. If you throw 5 balls on the table I can't for the life of me figure out a pattern to put them in; but I can sure pocket balls when I have open shots. Again I'm lol.
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That ^ is only probably because you never played anywhere and did not get proper instruction. I have run into many people that "have a table at home and play all the time against friends", but because there is no other standard they can see, we start to play, they lose 10 games in a row, and never come out of the basement again because they realized that "good" is relative. But it just takes a few weeks of finding a player to teach you stuff to actually GET the game. I like to call it Pool Vision, when you start to see the layout instead of just balls in some random order.

My 13 yr old I think finally got that, he just beat a good B player in league 56-10, the first 2 games the other guy did not sink a ball, lost on 3 fouls first game, and missed a ball the second game, my son ran out the full rack of 10 ball on him. I think he plays better safeties than me now LOL, but I did teach him to play so I can feel a little bit good about it :o

Head out of the dark and find some tournaments man!
 
hang-the-9 said:
That ^ is only probably because you never played anywhere and did not get proper instruction. I have run into many people that "have a table at home and play all the time against friends", but because there is no other standard they can see, we start to play, they lose 10 games in a row, and never come out of the basement again because they realized that "good" is relative. But it just takes a few weeks of finding a player to teach you stuff to actually GET the game. I like to call it Pool Vision, when you start to see the layout instead of just balls in some random order.

My 13 yr old I think finally got that, he just beat a good B player in league 56-10, the first 2 games the other guy did not sink a ball, lost on 3 fouls first game, and missed a ball the second game, my son ran out the full rack of 10 ball on him. I think he plays better safeties than me now LOL, but I did teach him to play so I can feel a little bit good about it :o

Head out of the dark and find some tournaments man!
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Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it. I'll think about it.
 
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