what pros play with maple regular deflection shafts ?

[garczar]

If you look hard enough, you'll always find the exception....
I bet that if we check the player's rosters of the WPA and now the WNT junior events, we'll find much more CF shafts users than wood.

Again, we live in the transition era of pool equipment, it might take 10 to 20 years to complete.

trying to check which pro is using wood is trying to justify one's choice, might as well ask which pros are using a specific brand to feel good about one's choice.

Pros can play with anything. A large part of their switching to cf is inducements($$$$$) from the big makers. Not all but a lot. IMO 'ease of ownership' aka slick finish/no warping/no dinging are bigger selling points than how they play. Nothing you can do with cf you can't with wood. The 'pool peer pressure' sells a lot of cf too. I see tons of league players using them simply because they see pros doing it. Marketing baby, just like golf.

 

[maha]

marketing plays the major role in most purchases in this world. even if you research wisely its hard to go against the crowd.

 

[Matt_24]

Pros can play with anything. A large part of their switching to cf is inducements($$$$$) from the big makers. Not all but a lot. IMO 'ease of ownership' aka slick finish/no warping/no dinging are bigger selling points than how they play. Nothing you can do with cf you can't with wood. The 'pool peer pressure' sells a lot of cf too. I see tons of league players using them simply because they see pros doing it. Marketing baby, just like golf.

110% this.

 

[Matt_24]

used to be QB cues but Ken went out on his own. Makes really nice stuff.

At one point I had the LAST QB Cue made. AJ and Ken dissolved their partnership and I had to carry the cue between them to get it completed. Ken was nice enough to finish it off. The shafts had the "Scott Frost Taper". It was a pretty cue but i didn't fall in love with it and traded it off.

 

[JasonATX]

Savannah Easton is not even 18 and she uses a wood shaft.

I don't even find there to be much of a correlation between age and carbon use, but rather location (Asia = more wood).

And on the amateur side of things, the vast majority of the cues I see at league are wood or hybrids, though carbon is pretty popular of course.

Technically, she does. It's a Fuze InFuzed CF cored wood shaft. Similar to the McDermott i-Series and Predator Centro shafts.