OB-1 by far has the better design as far as laminated shafts go. However, The predator shafts can be alot better if they used better wood. I have seen cut-section of several predator shafts and the quality of the wood is lower and the quality of the wood in one shaft varies between the 10 pie sections. This was done by a custom cue maker (Who has been making cues for 30 years) and these were his findings and not my opinion.
The shafts that I am talking about are from elite custom cue makers such as Black Boar and Southwest. At Black Boar, only 3-5 shafts make it to a end product out of every 100 shaft blanks. I like to see Dan Janes from JOSS cues make this claim. These are the words of Tony himself, who makes the cues. I have 5 Black Boar shafts. They have the same diameter and taper and I can tell you they all play the same. I do not need to adjust between shafts. Also, these shafts are almost 20 years old and they play just as good today as they did when i bought them.
The wood that is used in Fury, Joss, Players cues for shafts is not the same wood that is used in a Black Boar. It ain't even in the same class. That would be laike saying a BMW AMG is just another import like Honda.
Heres the bottom line, I like high end Custom Shafts, You like your OB-1. Fine, I could care less. There have been only two points I have been trying to make. One, All wood is not the same. Secondly, Why want laminated shaft makers like Predator, OB-1 and Meucci back up there claims by testing there products againist High Quality wood shafts like Black Boar?
If they don't want to, MAybe all of us AZer's should bann together and get the TV show "MythBusters" to do it so that we can put this issue to rest!
