Throw away shafts?

[Ken_4fun]

Cuemakers,

I often buy cues that need TLC, which usually means a refinish and either one or two new shafts.

I may be crazy (easy now), but I see shafts as just throw away items. I see alot of guys spending hours cleaning, caring, etc. I like a shaft 13mm-12.75 and if they get smaller I usually send them to a cuemaker to make another shaft and reuse the collar.

You see guys screwing with a warped shaft, (called taper roll if you are selling it), when you can spend a little and get a new shaft.... I just dont get it.

Thoughts?

Ken

 

[pescadoman]

Cuemakers,

I often buy cues that need TLC, which usually means a refinish and either one or two new shafts.

I may be crazy (easy now), but I see shafts as just throw away items. I see alot of guys spending hours cleaning, caring, etc. I like a shaft 13mm-12.75 and if they get smaller I usually send them to a cuemaker to make another shaft and reuse the collar.

You see guys screwing with a warped shaft, (called taper roll if you are selling it), when you can spend a little and get a new shaft.... I just dont get it.

Thoughts?

Ken

I don't get nostalgic about my shafts.....lol, but some do.

I think that many players use what money they can spare on weekly APA and BCA fees.

How much is a little though??

 

[MINDSEYE153]

Just wondering how many Szamboti, Rambow and Tad shafts you've thrown away?

Paul
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[pescadoman]

Just wondering how many Szamboti, Rambow and Tad shafts you've thrown away?

Paul
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LOL....that was my mindset...

The only shafts I've thrown away we already shattered.

I think I broke enough McWorter shafts to clothe Ryan through his high school years..

 

[Ken_4fun]

Just wondering how many Szamboti, Rambow and Tad shafts you've thrown away?

Paul
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None.

Plenty of JW (seems to be the most "sanded on" shaft), Gilbert, etc. I actively try to buy abused cues at lower costs, because I have a great cuemaker I use to make shafts and refinish cues reasonably. He uses it as filler and I am not in a big hurry usually.

Ken

 

[bobroberts]

I know cue makers who go through 100s of dowels before they feel that the wood is good enough to become a shaft.
If you own shafts by the greats then you probably wont be throwing away many shafts.
Besides i never sand my shafts i might burnish them if they are dinged but that is seldom, if your careful.A good shaft can last for ages.

 

[Lexicologist71]

I have several Ray Schuler shafts that are about 20 years old. If you don't abuse them or use sandpaper to clean them, they can last a long time.

 

[manwon]

Cuemakers,

I often buy cues that need TLC, which usually means a refinish and either one or two new shafts.

I may be crazy (easy now), but I see shafts as just throw away items. I see alot of guys spending hours cleaning, caring, etc. I like a shaft 13mm-12.75 and if they get smaller I usually send them to a cuemaker to make another shaft and reuse the collar.

You see guys screwing with a warped shaft, (called taper roll if you are selling it), when you can spend a little and get a new shaft.... I just dont get it.

Thoughts?

Ken

Some may disagree but, in my opinion for collectible cues the original shaft can add or detract value. Outside of that I completely agree that shafts are veiwed by many as expendible components that are normally replaced over time on cues that are designed and used as players. The thing most people forget is that in most cases they need to save the original shaft if it has a uniquely designed shaft collar. Remaking a single shaft collar will cost more than the wood to make the new shaft or in some cases a few new shafts.

JIMO