Show me your best shafts!!!!

[Cuemaster98]

Hi Guys,

I thought it's about time that we now show the most important part of the cue, the shaft!! It far too often that we like to show off the quality of the cue but hardly has anyone really show the most powerful part of the cue..IMO the shaft quality is what makes the cue plays like a magic wand.

Skip Weston: 12.92 mm (4.05 oz No insert..the shaft has curly throughout the shaft and play awesome. Hard Molavia is installed with Ivory Ferrule.

Skip Weston: 13.10 mm (4.12 oz No insert..)..Original Medium Moori with Ivory Ferrule

Both skip shafts have near perfect straight grain with translucent curly..love how it plays with the butt.

Alex Brick shaft: 12.4 mm, straight grain, with aegis ferrule...sweet taper and player

I'm will have pics of my favourite curly maple shaft along with a shaft that's probably the best shaft of all time for me from Joel Weinstock cue. Some shaft works from Don Broos

Now lets see some more shafts work.

 

[skor]

The bottom one.... with KJ custom work to fit the Carmeli

 

[SwissChris]

One of my BB shafts was 4.4oz. at 12.8 mm that was a monster

 

[skor]

My Jacoby shaft is 4.79oz (136 grams) at 13mm
Would that make it a better shaft?

I understand that dense wood could feel better to some but if someone (like me) likes to play with light cues and a balance point of 18.5 to 18.75 inches from the butt then these heavy shafts are out of the picture....

From my short experience... light shafts play better, therefore they are the best... and I'm not talking about LD shafts like Predator... The Carmeli shaft I have is 3.38oz (96 grams) at 12.4mm and my Schon shaft is 3.98oz (113 grams) at 13mm and they both play much better (to me) then the 4.79oz Jacoby shaft..

 

[Detlev Rackow]

Original shafts on my Murrell - 3.925 oz, LBM ferrule, no insert, Talisman Medium Pro - the tips' colour is usually a little lighter, but this one has darkened from some polishing: