Hello, it’s crazy how things have changed. When I was younger I shot league several times a week and the whole low deflection shafts where all the craze. Fast forward almost 20 years and I decided to get back into league and seems like all I seen was carbon fiber shafts. I have noticed, at least in my area people have started to gravitate back towards traditional maple shafts. Am I the only one seeing this? I do love the hit of an old traditional shaft.
Traditional wood shafts making comeback?
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Snooker cues are the original LD poles.
billiards_watch
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Love wood shafts.
Close your eyes and hit the cue ball and you can feel the direction its going just by the feel.
Close your eyes and hit the cue ball and you can feel the direction its going just by the feel.
Cicerone88
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“Cause he's got everything workin' for 'em: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's a - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before”
-Fast Eddie Felson
Wood shafts forever
-Fast Eddie Felson
Wood shafts forever
billiards_watch
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This is the way.“Cause he's got everything workin' for 'em: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's a - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before”
-Fast Eddie Felson
Wood shafts forever
This is the way...
I only use wood shafts - they just feel more natural in so many ways - I don’t want to be perfect bc of my equipment - I seek perfection because I earned it respecting tradition . Some choices in life just should not be technology driven - I like it that way!
Not from what I can see . Some wood shafts locally.. some at nationals. Maybe 50/50 .. maybe less honestly.. I don’t think they need to make a come back. Wood shafts will still be around and alternatives will be there for the people that prefer something different. My advice is play with what you like and don’t worry about what everyone else is doing.
Wood is coming back as shafts with wood on the outside and carbon fiber inside. McDermott's shafts are almost all wood/CF shafts.
Companies with wood/CF:
Companies with wood/CF:
Predator Centro and C8
Mezz EX Pro,
McDermott G-Core,
McDermott I-Series (i-Pro, i-Pro Slim, i-1, i-2, i-3),
Pure X FUZE Kielwood Carbon Fiber InFUZED Solid Shaft
Lucasi Pro Carbon InFUZED 10S
Bear RB-1,
Fury LC series, Fury ST2 Hybrid series, Fury Merlin,
CueLees CT-1 & CT-2,
OB Cues Fusion (no longer available)
Predator BK3 Sport Break cue and its BK3CF shaft (not available on Predator website)
Cuetec R360 (no longer available)
JFlowers SMO-W https://jflowerscues.com/product/smo-wood-shaft-low-deflection .
JFlowers' figure on left and McDermott's on right:
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Moe Szyslak
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You mean "forward"?
Moe Szyslak
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I truly enjoy playing with my old traditional shaft, but I play pool with a carbon fiber. Can't say I miss wood at all.
I'll admit i drank the Koolaid on carbon fiber shafts. I've got three. They never come out of the case since I purchased an Andy Gilbert cue. His plain vanilla cue shafts play splendidly as do a few other cuemakers I've purchased. I believe that hype was manufacturers . Far easier to make a cf shaft than maple. That equals more profit especially since the prices went from 125 for a maple to 400 for cf. Nobody even expects better feel from cf.
Zerksies
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And wood can still warp after the fact too.