Filler seems to be doing just fine playing with CF.
Champions win with CF or Wood.
Wood shafts are a lot more work than CF.
CF so easy to maintain.........
Pia Filler hates wood shafts
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Champions win with CF or Wood.
Wood shafts are a lot more work than CF.
CF so easy to maintain.........
You make some good points in reference to tennis and golf. Those sports have ever-present metrics like serve speed and swing or ball speed, which must be on some constant albeit gentle upward trajectory over time. No comparable metric in pool exists. Break speed has been measured but we know it's much less meaningful than those in tennis or golf.
Put some water in a cup, microwave it to boiling, dip a Q-tip in and apply to the ding.
Viola.
Lou Figueroa
beware super heating the water
because it can explode
This took way too long for someone to say!
My experience aligns with Lou's (although our techniques differ). Perhaps your personal ding removal technique needs refinement.
Coos Cues
Coos Cues
Some shafts are so dinged up you have to take greater measures.
I can see that with house cues, but I typically remove dings from my personal shafts within a few hours of each ding. That way, dings don't accumulate. Personally, a ding on an otherwise smooth shaft feels like a huge crater, so its removal is very high priority once I leave the pool room.
Coos Cues
Coos Cues
You would be amazed at some of the shafts people play with. Just today I put a tip on a shaft that felt like a french tickler. I always try and clean and smooth the shafts when I put tips on and charge a few dollars more but people seem to appreciate it. Lots of comments on the shaft and very few on the tips.
I can believe it. I've encountered a lot of bangers and, to a lesser extent, newer players who have been led to believe that sandpaper is the best way to keep a shaft clean and smooth. Their approach to shaft maintenance is clearly suboptimal.
Cleveland_Rocks
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Pia can be Pia, but as for mea, I play with carbon. Predator 12.4 Revo. Less muss and fuss, thus my decision. I also have a Revo on my break and on my jump for consistency. I would much rather do drills on a nine footer for an hour than talk about cues for an hour.
I am amazed by all the concern for dings in wood shafts. Are people using them for sword fights between games? I have had 2 dings to repair in the last 10 years. Both dings were easily removed in a very few minutes.
I value my equipment and certainly don’t mind keeping it clean and in good condition.
Carbon fiber is great for some people, but not the favorite of all people. My only fear is that someday there won’t be a chance to still get a good wood shaft, and that will be a sad day. I fear that marketing “facts” are being taken too seriously by some players. I wish I had a dollar for every new player I see using carbon fiber, and who hasn’t hit a shot that wasn’t center ball in his/her life. Does carbon fiber make playing easier for everyone? Of course not, but some are able to utilize the lower deflection and some are not. Is carbon fiber “that much better” than a low deflection wood or Kiel wood shaft? Doesn’t matter because it only matters if you are smart enough to compensate correctly for what you use, and we all have to compensate. There are no winners or losers in this argument, find what works for you. Don’t be like the beginners that think they can ONLY play with what some marketers are telling/selling them.
I value my equipment and certainly don’t mind keeping it clean and in good condition.
Carbon fiber is great for some people, but not the favorite of all people. My only fear is that someday there won’t be a chance to still get a good wood shaft, and that will be a sad day. I fear that marketing “facts” are being taken too seriously by some players. I wish I had a dollar for every new player I see using carbon fiber, and who hasn’t hit a shot that wasn’t center ball in his/her life. Does carbon fiber make playing easier for everyone? Of course not, but some are able to utilize the lower deflection and some are not. Is carbon fiber “that much better” than a low deflection wood or Kiel wood shaft? Doesn’t matter because it only matters if you are smart enough to compensate correctly for what you use, and we all have to compensate. There are no winners or losers in this argument, find what works for you. Don’t be like the beginners that think they can ONLY play with what some marketers are telling/selling them.
Why wouldn't she hate wood? Playing with wood is like still using Nokia flash old phones today because you dislike how the smartphones/iphones look.
There's zero advantage to playing with wood as opposed to playing with a CF, in fact playing with a CF will ultimately advances your levels by at least 20% to 30% from where you've started...i.e. the lower level you are the higher you would feel the jump, if you're already a high level player your jump isnt as severe but it is a more consistant jump still.
We've discussed this or at least I did in a whole another thread, I aint gona start the argument again from the wood lovers and those who go by "OH BUT BUT I HATE THE SOUND OF CF" -- BS excuse.
Go back and use these please, because you like how they feel
There's also freeing up the mental real estate and not worrying about your cue. I can move balls around with the cue without being dainty, worrying about it, and still checking it later. If the cue gets knocked over, no concern.
And that's in addition to less general maintenance, less worrying about warpage, and staying smoother longer.
Sounds like you need a rake instead of a cue.
You can’t worry less about warpage, if you aren’t worrying in the first place.
I'm just the opposite, I worry far more about doing something irrepairable with cf than I do with wood.
CF is better in 2 things compared to wood and 1 of them could be equal, CF shafts play more consistent than wood for one simple reason, you will never get 2 pieces of wood exactly alike, as the wood wears it will change, it may take years for it to happen but it will happen, Not all CF shafts are created equal, some are foam filled tubes some are spun with different thicknesses to create a repeatable consistent hit, the Becue Prime II shaft has the perfect blend of feedback and transfer of power to me, MOST CF shafts transfer the power of your stroke more efficiently, there are wood shafts that equal a CF shaft in transfer of power but are fewer in number and can't be manufactured to do so, I have 2 of these shafts with the same tip and they play exactly alike, if a tip came off in the middle a tournament or money match knowing you can screw on your other shaft and not have to make adjustments helps keep you focused on your match, if you are a player that has been playing with the same wood cue for 20 or 30 years and you play at a high level with your cue then I wouldn't change to any other cue, CF or wood, I'm using Bulletproof Recoil tips too, they are synthetic, I know a guy who has been using LePro tips over 30 years, if it's been working for you for that long why change......
I'm using CF but I'm not anti wood, there are so many body types, speed of strokes, heights,weights ect. so there is no one "right" cue for everyone, if you play well with your cue and that cue makes you feel like you don't want another cue then you've found your cue, if you like your cue but don't think it's perfect for you, keep searching, there's one out there for you.......
vintagecollectibles831
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Just get a Whyte Carbon (by Triple 60). Has amazing feel, and amazing power, in my opinion. Love that shaft so much. A friend let me use one, during a tournament, one night, for a few hours, and it was really a game changer for me. The Deflection felt ultra low (Like Zero deflection, it seemed), and the feel / hit was amazing, and the Power was really amazing.
Yeah, I can understand why she hates wooden shafts, lol.
Some of this is probably in your head. The lowest deflection CF shafts don't have significantly different deflection from modern wood shafts (like those of Predator).