What type of shaft do you use on your playing cue?

What type of shaft do you use on your main playing cue?

  • Traditional Maple Shaft

    Votes: 98 50.3%
  • Meucci Black Dot

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Meucci Red Dot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Predator Z or Z-2 shaft

    Votes: 13 6.7%
  • Predator 314 or 314-2 shaft

    Votes: 39 20.0%
  • Cuetec

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • OB-1 shaft

    Votes: 12 6.2%
  • Tiger X

    Votes: 6 3.1%
  • Terminator shaft (Arnot)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 25 12.8%

  • Total voters
    195
  • Poll closed .

JoeyA

Efren's Mini-Tourn BACKER
Silver Member
Most of my shafts are standard maple wood. I was just wondering what most AZers use for their playing cue and wanted to compare our poll with some other shaft manufacturers claims.
Thanks,
JoeyA
 
Nornal maple shaft. Have tried most of the others just to see what the hype was about..... and wasnt impressed at all.
Chuck
 
I find it a personal insult that you catagorize 314 and 314/2 in the same catagory:mad:







Just kidding.

Good luck with your poll.
 
vin said:
314.. wanted to try mezz hybrid though

We're getting some really nice numbers of posters voting on the types of shafts that they use.

This is very interesting.

I hope everyone continues voting so that we get a good overall consensus of what everyone is using.

Sorry about not including some of the shafts that some of you guys and gals use but there are only 10 available options on a poll. I guess I should have left out Meucci red dot.

If your REGULAR playing shaft isn't listed, please add make a post and name it.

THANKS!.
JoeyA
 
I voted other, cause I play with an old growth shaft, 32 rings per inch. When I order a cue from a cue maker, I order 1 old growth if the price is reasonable and 1 regular shaft with 3/4" ferrules.
 
some years ago, I recall hearing about some special old growth maple wood, recovered from 200' down in one of the Great Lakes. The decades spent in deep cold water supposedly gave this wood some sort of magical properties when used in a cue shaft. Anybody know more about this...hype or reality?
 
pwd72s said:
some years ago, I recall hearing about some special old growth maple wood, recovered from 200' down in one of the Great Lakes. The decades spent in deep cold water supposedly gave this wood some sort of magical properties when used in a cue shaft. Anybody know more about this...hype or reality?

Hype in my opinion. Nothing magic about them other than they were old growth. The time under water didn't do anything but preserve them. As an aside, some oak was deliberately sunken to use to repair Old Ironsides if ever needed when she originally slid down the ways. Roughly two hundred years later some of the logs were retrieved and used for repairs. They were reported to be in the same condition as when put in the water.

Hu
 
Wood

Standard wood shaft by Rick Howard.

I use the PBK2 for breaking and sometimes the new x-breaker (I like the BK2 better for breaking though- hard to beat that).

Just ordered a new Diveney with a lake salvage shaft. Interested to see how it turns out.
 
pwd72s said:
some years ago, I recall hearing about some special old growth maple wood, recovered from 200' down in one of the Great Lakes. The decades spent in deep cold water supposedly gave this wood some sort of magical properties when used in a cue shaft. Anybody know more about this...hype or reality?
I believe that the subspecies of the logs was the rare... Youllneverevermiss Maple. :D
 
I play with a Shoen with a 314 predator shaft.
Have played with various sticks & shafts through the years and I love the solid hit, with minimal deflection, that I get with the predator.
No criticism for anyone playing a different type shaft.
It's all about the feel!
 
I use the shaft that came with my Gilbert.

I would think that Mr Gilbert knows a thing or two about making a good playing shaft.

I mean why in the hell would i want to put a junk 314 shaft on my Gilbert? that kinda defeats the purpose of having a custom cue.
 
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