Pinstriped shaft

[Houstoer]

Doesn't Viking or McDermott make one of these. A local billard store had one and I shot a couple games with it. It was made by one of the production companies. Had four lines going down the shaft (not together; spaced apart). it did help some with alignment etc and was "kind of " neat.

 

[poolguppy]

Somebody was making shafts with an inlaid stripe in them. I don't remember who.

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Viking, shot around with one for a while, felt gimmicky

 

[DAVE_M]

Viking, shot around with one for a while, felt gimmicky

Yea, I don't like it. I got a free shirt for the "eXact shot" giveaway on facebook, but I think the shaft is crap.

 

[ugotactionTX]

that's pretty interesting...

Good read. It was pretty interesting reading about a cue shaft with such technical and descriptive language. It all seemed rather high brow but it perfectly describes his idea. I'm kinda surprised Kikel would spend the money required to patent something like this. Not sure what it cost in 1990 but I'm sure it wasn't cheap. Anyone seen one of these? did he build any?

Here is a link to the patent Dave Kikel has for this shaft. He took a standard shaft and split it down the middle lengthwise and then laminated a different color wood in the middle. When you open this link the open the PDF file and you can see the description of this aiming shaft..

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4949965.html