Sneak-Peek, Half-CaF Shaft
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By the way.......I just watched Dr. Dave's video. It's interesting that we recorded EVERY time I shoot this. I would freeze an object ball to the head rail. Set the cue ball 2-1/4 inches to the left of the foot spot. Effectively identical to what Dr. Dave does. I would then aim my shaft straight through the cue ball to the exact spot I wanted to hit, THEN I'd look down and ensure my shaft was 90 degrees to the short rail and the correct distance from the center diamond of the short rail. I metaphorically say I aim the shaft like a rifle. I aim precisely where I want the bullet to go. Then I'd shoot and cut the object ball in the top right corner. In the video I'm presenting here I upgraded a clients shaft with my new ferrule. With witnesses present, I had never once but a ball with that cue or shaft. I took no practice. No warm up. Set it up. Got down. Shot the cue ball one time. You judge the results. At one point, again, with witnesses present and on videos my girlfriend recorded I made that more than 18 consecutive times on 8 different tables, different lengths of table, different balls and cloth and different environments. I even asked Kevin Stier of INTEGRITY CUES ( who I will add has a tremendous inventory of cues at realistic prices) to shoot that same shot. 15 seconds of instruction on how to aim it (because we're both old school and our first inclination is to OVER compensate for upcoming deflection) with the cue perpendicular to the rail. He made it on his first try. As a sidebar, he'd actually set it up so that the object ball was beyond 90 degrees and he cut the ball backwards. I have it on video..............
NOTE: Well apparently you can't upload a video file to this forum. If you message me with your email or Facebook Messenger info I'll message you the videos. And about 20 others if you're curious.
The message here is, I AM doing exactly what Dr. Dave suggested in DIY testing the deflection not of the shaft but the result of the cue ball. I think that's an important distinction. "How does the cue ball react to the impact of a tip attached to a low deflection shaft and ferrule?" I however do not have access to six different low deflection shafts worth thousands of dollars to run tests on. What I will do is give this a shot over the weekend and see if we can't record the results. I'll then share those with whoever wishes to share their contact information with me. How's that sound?
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Paul_#_
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If you are interested in low deflection, sooner or later, you will have to buy or borrow two or three low-deflection shafts to determine how good your shafts are. Or let others test for you. Dr Dave's tests will give you a good estimate of the deflection properties of the three shafts. Do the replications and follow the instructions he provides. Post results on the sometime snakepit, AZBilliards.
Later, get witnesses to your tests. Later, get others to conduct and repeat your tests. Rock on. Interesting.
If you wish to send me a message I'll respond with my phone number and happily discuss my process with you.........within reason, of course. I welcome anyone's opinions with what I'm trying to do. Please read my response further on in the forum.
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A little late to this thread, but would like to say I had a chance to try out the maple bottomed version DeeDeeCues mentioned. I didn't play extensively with it, but completely agree with this assessment in terms of the feel. Would love to try out this later version if DeeDeeCues would be so inclined.
DeeDeeCues
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In the not-so-distant, my friend. I have a little more finishing on the cue and I'll have it out.
Play well tonight!
this one is too short carbon part, I would say, compared to the pyramid cuemaker. His first gen of these trials was 50/50 I recall
would you elaborate on your personal reason for that? I've always been thinking, why try to fight deflection? Better be a good scholar of it.
It is not possible to upload a video to the forum directly, but it is very much open to links from any other hosting. One could upload a file to Dropbox or any kind of a cloud storage, make a link to share and... share it
I state in my pdf. that I am not an engineer nor physicist nor a mathmatician. I am nothing more than an insanely curious person about the game. My reason is because when I strike the cue ball at whatever speed I want it to go precisely where I aim it without doing the mental gymnastics of running through all the variables necessary to determine how much it's going to deflect before it arrives at it's destination. I am quite aware that this is a fool's folly but so are many of life's worthwhile endeavors. Perfection is unattainable but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try. It's what drives the human struggle forward and sparks innovation and inevitably, missteps. I do not look at mistakes as failures; rather I think of them as ways that my idea won't work. Onward and upward for being all the wiser.
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Thank you very much for that advice. I've never used Dropbox or similar service before but I'll look into it when I get home this evening. That's a terrific idea.It is not possible to upload a video to the forum directly, but it is very much open to links from any other hosting. One could upload a file to Dropbox or any kind of a cloud storage, make a link to share and... share it
Paul_#_
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Some noted here the better hit with a wood half-shaft spliced to a carbon fiber half-shaft. The Cuelees EX Solid mentioned above with its carbon-fiber portion of the shaft at joint end was considered the best shaft ever by BigBreakSheikhYT in his post (click here).
There is something to shafts that mix carbon fiber with wood and not just those with CF at one end and wood at the other. Many players like the hit of the shaft with a carbon-fiber rod inside an exterior of maple (Mezz EX, Centro, McDermott i-series and G-Core).
There is something to shafts that mix carbon fiber with wood and not just those with CF at one end and wood at the other. Many players like the hit of the shaft with a carbon-fiber rod inside an exterior of maple (Mezz EX, Centro, McDermott i-series and G-Core).
Maybe a patent but not a copyright.
Hello again everyone. So my amazing girlfriend was able to upload all the videos taken off me and a few other people sitting that long thin cut shot by aiming the shaft like a rifle. Aiming exactly like Dr. Dave by maintaining cuing the shaft perpendicularly to the short rail and aiming precisely at where I wanted the cue ball to end up. With extreme center ball right hand English I literally point the cue through the cue ball to a point about an 1/8" it so too the left of the object ball. I do not compensate for deflection by canting the cue. We uploaded all the videos we have to Instagram and this is the link. Thanks very much for your patience.
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You may find this interesting. These were all one and done shots. I absolutely did not play the shot multiple times then pick the best one. No practice. No warm up. Get down and cut the ball in on the first attempt. Two of these videos are from a security camera the bar owner gave me access to.
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