What ferrule material is Schon currently using? Def different than 90's material

[thubosky]

Did schon use Ivorine 3 in the 90's and now use Ivorine 4? That is sort of what I'm thinking.

My friend has a schon from 93 and another a little newer. His shafts ferrules have a slight slight yellowish tint to them and a tighter, smoother grain pattern. I believe I have a newer schon shaft because mine is super white and more definitive grain pattern. Alot more visible than my friends shafts.

We used all the shafts on my Schon butt, and there was a huge difference in playability. Hard to explain, we both preferred his shafts. Pretty sure they aren't old enough to be micarta. So am I right that it is ivorine 3?
Thanks,
Tim

The black tipped shaft is the newer shaft

 

[carguy]

Just curious...what makes you think it's Ivorine 3?
Do you know what Iv3 and Iv4 look like, or are you just throwing that out there?

Robin Snyder

 

[thubosky]

Just curious...what makes you think it's Ivorine 3?
Do you know what Iv3 and Iv4 look like, or are you just throwing that out there?

Robin Snyder

Well the new material looks like ivorine 4 based on pictures. So I was guessing the older stuff might be ivorine 3? Not sure though. Hopefully someone will know because id like to put that material and a Moori medium on my shaft to have a similar hit to my friends older shafts.

 

[cueman]

I am pretty sure Schon was just using the quality Linen Based Melamine that could be found back in the 90's and not Ivorine 3. I have no idea what they are using now.

 

[Tommy-D]

I have a Schon shaft that came with a new cue I bought in 2011.

Ivorine-4 all day long. I've worked on at least a dozen other shafts from the last 5 years or so that all had Iv-4. Tommy D.

 

[thubosky]

I am pretty sure Schon was just using the quality Linen Based Melamine that could be found back in the 90's and not Ivorine 3. I have no idea what they are using now.

So would that be the ivorine 3? Is ivorine 3 just a name brand of linen melamine? Or is it a less quality version? And how would you compare the hit of ivory and paper based micarta to the hit of linen melamine?

 

[cueman]

So would that be the ivorine 3? Is ivorine 3 just a name brand of linen melamine? Or is it a less quality version? And how would you compare the hit of ivory and paper based micarta to the hit of linen melamine?

Ivorine 3 was different in color and got dirty easier than the melamine most of us were using in the 90's. I saved the last few hundred of the old melamine ferrules for my Hightower cues and am still using them. Micarta has always had a unique hit. The new Micarta plays a little softer than the old stuff, which is a plus to me as the old stuff on Schon's played almost as hard as Ivory.