Specs on Shane Van Boening's Cues

NO it didn't, it was a stock SST SHAFT on his cuetek player forget the length of taper but it was stock, I would have noticed a diff. ( This was back in 03/04 I believe)

But his cue he has now which is a meucci has a insanely long pro taper on it....told me Bob would not taper the shaft like that for him so he got someone else to do it (can't remember who)

I don't know how he shoots with that new shaft on that meucci of his.....Earl is earl i guess lol

-Grey Ghost-

Dude, you couldn't be more wrong about Earl's Cuetechs.

First, assuming that the shafts were stock, the taper was heavily modified. Earl liked the taper pulled waaay back to the joint. I'll have to check my pics from past US Opens, to see if I have a snapshot.

Second, weren't the Cuetech "Earl cues" the model with a fiberglass coated shaft?

Either way, there is no way, without a single doubt, that the shafts were stock, out of the box Cuetech shafts.


Eric
 
Dude, you couldn't be more wrong about Earl's Cuetechs.

First, assuming that the shafts were stock, the taper was heavily modified. Earl liked the taper pulled waaay back to the joint. I'll have to check my pics from past US Opens, to see if I have a snapshot.

Second, weren't the Cuetech "Earl cues" the model with a fiberglass coated shaft?

Either way, there is no way, without a single doubt, that the shafts were stock, out of the box Cuetech shafts.


Eric


Yes earls shafts were the SST with fiberglass cladding.....same as the solid color strickland series cueteks that could be bought for like a bill 20
 
Yes earls shafts were the SST with fiberglass cladding.....

For years, Earl would carry 3 white Cuetecs with him; his playing cue, break cue and a shorter cue that he jumped with (it was longer than a standard jumpcue). Earl refuseed to use a jump cue and would jump with a (roughly) 52 inch cue, with a hard tip.


Eric
 
For years, Earl would carry 3 white Cuetecs with him; his playing cue, break cue and a shorter cue that he jumped with (it was longer than a standard jumpcue). Earl refuseed to use a jump cue and would jump with a (roughly) 52 inch cue, with a hard tip.


Eric

yea thats right I do remember him having 3 diff cues never knew about the shorty for jumping tho.....


yea earl has a meucci b/f the cuetek years.....he's now back with meucci has been for over a year or so
 
Cue Specs. on Shane's cue

I don't know how this thread got off subject (SHANE'S Cue) to Earl's cue (yes, they both have/had Cuetec as a sponsor, BUT...)
I know Earl, I've practiced with him MANY hours and have seen him recently. The Cuetec cues he played with were STOCK butts and wood (not fiberglass coated) modified shafts (with a VERY long straight taper!). Shane plays a Cuetec R-360 plain jane (no points on forearm) and since that stock wooden R-360 shaft DOES have a long taper, I don't know if it has been modified or not.
 
I don't know how this thread got off subject (SHANE'S Cue) to Earl's cue (yes, they both have/had Cuetec as a sponsor, BUT...)
I know Earl, I've practiced with him MANY hours and have seen him recently. The Cuetec cues he played with were STOCK butts and wood (not fiberglass coated) modified shafts (with a VERY long straight taper!). Shane plays a Cuetec R-360 plain jane (no points on forearm) and since that stock wooden R-360 shaft DOES have a long taper, I don't know if it has been modified or not.

Exactly (Earl's). I think he used to say that they were factory shafts that he had his guy grind the fiberglass coating off, and neck the taper down/pull it back. The shafts were a lot skinnier than 13mm(stock) and the taper was so gradual (could have been no taper at all) and went to about an inch from the joint.

For TAR 19, SVB was playing with a stock Cue Tec. I don't know if the taper was modified slightly. If so, you couldn't tell. You could see the "360" logo on the shaft. Don't know what tip he was using either.

I didn't ask him about his cue. This is just my observation, from sitting next to him.


Eric
 
ill take yal's word for it...that was some time ago and I only saw those cues once...could have swore diff but oh well not like its the first time i've been incorrect

not that i ever really cared who plays with what and this and that......equipment fads are not my thing....i play with what I like b/c its good for me not cuz its what shane or someone else uses.

But hey thats marketing for ya :)

-Grey Ghost-
 
ill take yal's word for it...that was some time ago and I only saw those cues once...could have swore diff but oh well not like its the first time i've been incorrect

not that i ever really cared who plays with what and this and that......equipment fads are not my thing....i play with what I like b/c its good for me not cuz its what shane or someone else uses.

But hey thats marketing for ya :)

-Grey Ghost-

Yea, I'm not really interested in what shaft or butt he's using. Weight and tip diameter are really all i'm wondering about. Everyone else can talk about the rest.
 
Earl used to sand his cuetec shafts down to the wood and they were not the regular taper like a stock shaft.
 
Earl used to sand his cuetec shafts down to the wood and they were not the regular taper like a stock shaft.

How thick is that fiberglass cladding on a Cuetec SST shaft? I'm just wondering how hard it would be to sand off the fiberglass down to the wood. As much as I hate to admit it, I have a Cuetec cue from some years ago that before I get rid of it, I'd like to try to sand down the shaft to the wood and see if it improves anything. I actually like the butt on this cue (Mahogany series) but absolutely hate the shaft. Thought about buying an LD shaft but don't really want to spend that kind of money for a cue that I don't really need.

Maniac
 
I'm not sure on the specs, but I know that when Earl played for cuetek that his cues were STOCK CUES off the shelf....He let me hit a few balls with his cues some years ago when he was still sponsored by them, everyone always swore they were not the stock strickland series cuetek's he played with.

I played with a strickland for about 4 years when I was younger....the same one that earl shot with and when I drove his cue around I couldn't tell any diff at all.

Its BS Earls Qtek wasn't STOCK....and I see no reason that Shanes would not be.

Your being sponsored by a company they want you to use their product, if he wasn't then it wouldn't be their product we are all buying.

just a guess based on previous arrangements,
-Grey Ghost-

Perhaps things changed. I took a 2 hour lesson with Strickland somewhere around the 2002 neighborhood. His cue sure didn't seem stock. It weighed 17 oz, and the shaft was a standard maple shaft. At that time, Cuetech didn't offer shafts that were not fiberglass coated (to my knowledge). He had no bumper on the butt and probably removed the weight bolt, so the butt may have been stock, but the shaft definitely was not. I hit some balls with it and it didn't even feel a little like a Cuetech.

KMRUNOUT
 
I don't know how this thread got off subject (SHANE'S Cue) to Earl's cue (yes, they both have/had Cuetec as a sponsor, BUT...)
I know Earl, I've practiced with him MANY hours and have seen him recently. The Cuetec cues he played with were STOCK butts and wood (not fiberglass coated) modified shafts (with a VERY long straight taper!). Shane plays a Cuetec R-360 plain jane (no points on forearm) and since that stock wooden R-360 shaft DOES have a long taper, I don't know if it has been modified or not.

This matches my experience. Having shot with Earl's cue, it definitely did NOT have a fiberglass coated shaft.

KMRUNOUT
 
Earl also had a shaft(s) that were not stock. I remember one tournament he played in, the collar on the shaft was brown.
Chuck
Ill see if I can find a picture of it.
 
Justin from TAR posted about a year ago something to the affect of he saw with his own eyes Shane would get maybe 10 or 12 shafts from cuetech, try them all, and keep the one's he liked. He would take them right out of the factory sealed packaging when he tried them.

This implies to me they are 100% stock, to include taper, ferrule, and tip.
 
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