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Specs on Shane Van Boening's Cues
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Last summer when we were in Des Moines for the SVB/Frost match, Shane had just started playing with his Cuetec a month or two before. Well, we were all sitting around after the match had ended for the night and it was either the Sleeve or Nasty made a comment to Shane "Hey Shane, do you realize you could take your case, cues and everything to the pawn shop and you'd only get about $150 for them?" and without skipping a beat and a smile on his face Shane replies "Yeah, they're affordable, you should get one." LOL One of the funniest things I had heard.
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I do a lot of travelling with my job, and I enjoy playing pool, but I'm not going to lug my expensive cues around to get overheated sitting in a car while in a plant somewhere working. Solution? Get an inexpensive Cuetec. I bought one after SVB got his sponsorship and have never been sorry. The only thing I changed was the tip - original was way too soft. I've had mine for about a year now and I tell you the hit is just about as good as a predator. And it has the advantage of sneaking up on the snobs that think if the cue isn't custom made and cost $1500+ it's "crap". I even had one guy I torched in NC state "How good can he be? He's playing with a Cuetec". I've probably made close to $5K this past year with mine.
If you're a good player to begin with, using a Cuetec is not going to hurt your game.
So he has Cuetecs.....how heavy are they?
Who's bought one of these cues? anyone tried one first hand?
Shanes Cuetec hits about 5 times better than his old Schon with the Joss shaft on it. That thing hit like ass. He did win the Open with it though so I guess he liked it ok.
When he got his first cuetec Nasty said it "Looks like a bass fishing lure" because it had all kinds of flash silver stickers on it. He has since switched to what looks like a plain grey merry widow style.
Triangle tips. Shaft is about 12.6 using my mental calipers.
The funny thing is Shane knows and cares as much about cues as I do quantum mechanics. He just wants something to run out with. If someone pays him for using it even better.
When he got his first cuetec Nasty said it "Looks like a bass fishing lure" because it had all kinds of flash silver stickers on it. He has since switched to what looks like a plain grey merry widow style.
Triangle tips. Shaft is about 12.6 using my mental calipers.
The funny thing is Shane knows and cares as much about cues as I do quantum mechanics. He just wants something to run out with. If someone pays him for using it even better.
anything hits better than the cue he grew up with, he has used a few different butts with cuetec, the fishing lure is history now, he has moved on. I have play with what ever set up he has now, its feels like a 19 oz cue with a 12.75mm shaft, nothing special.He did say that tried a few different bitts/shafts until he found one he likes the best. Honestly I dont think it matters what he plays with-he can adapt to the cue quickly.
Says several times in the thread. Schon/Joss combo.
I have held his cue and shot a couple shots, when he tried mine. Shane's cue is a beat up Cuetec that was given to him from a guy, not from Cuetec. It is about as plain as you can get. Sometimes he even as a case he can fold up and just about put in his back pocket. Pretty hilarious.
this was a couple of years ago
Must have switched tips, as last time he was in Fargo, about a year ago he was using Kamui. I think it was brown, medium. He even blew one of his main shaft doing some trick shots.
But hell he could use a broomstick and beat 90%+ of the challengers.
That is interesting .
When I saw him play at the LA Open years ago , the shafts sure looked like really white maple to me . Both his break cue and playing cue had what appeared to be really white maple shafts.
Every time Earl broke he kept looking at the cue to make sure it was his break cue. Both shafts still looked new .
He was playing Mika and lost when I saw him play there. That was the last time LA Open was held here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sbobEBBWofE#t=2998
New ferrule and medium Kamui brown he says.
Zombie thread. Nice, lol!
I heard that shane doesn't shoot with an R360 shaft. He shoots with some cue maker shaft. Zamboti or something like that. Anyone know if thats true?
Where is Travis trotter when you need him?
Only one experience with Earl and the Cuetec and Earl always is changing things up but around 2000 he came to the Volunteer classic here in Knoxville.
He walked in with his case and sat it down on then went back to his car a proceeded to come back in with an armload of shafts... Likely 40+ which he tossed on the table next to where he was warming up... He then proceeded to try shaft after shaft until he found one that matched what he expected...
I have no idea if the stripping came later or if he had just gotten the shafts in from Cuetec but the armload was all stock shafts....
As far as Shane this is from the horses mouth... His shaft is a stock R360 with a Kamui Brown medium that he beats into a brick...
When I say stock R360 that was what he started with and even quoted me the stock diameter.. However I had taken my micrometer to NJ for the event and when I stuck it on his shaft it was under 11mm...
When I asked him if he had had someone turn it down he looked at me funny and said all he had done was play with it... Over the time he had had that shaft he had worn it down that far from use.... Has he had it replaced since then I do not know...
I asked him if he was still using the Kamui Brown M last month at the MIH event and he said he was but I didn't ask anything else or loo closely at his cue.....
He walked in with his case and sat it down on then went back to his car a proceeded to come back in with an armload of shafts... Likely 40+ which he tossed on the table next to where he was warming up... He then proceeded to try shaft after shaft until he found one that matched what he expected...
I have no idea if the stripping came later or if he had just gotten the shafts in from Cuetec but the armload was all stock shafts....
As far as Shane this is from the horses mouth... His shaft is a stock R360 with a Kamui Brown medium that he beats into a brick...
When I say stock R360 that was what he started with and even quoted me the stock diameter.. However I had taken my micrometer to NJ for the event and when I stuck it on his shaft it was under 11mm...
When I asked him if he had had someone turn it down he looked at me funny and said all he had done was play with it... Over the time he had had that shaft he had worn it down that far from use.... Has he had it replaced since then I do not know...
I asked him if he was still using the Kamui Brown M last month at the MIH event and he said he was but I didn't ask anything else or loo closely at his cue.....
baalpeteor
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As for 2020 and on, seems he uses a HOW TIP (interview from 2022), and possibly the ghost version. All his cues look black/greyish.