Whats the point in having more than one shaft?

[asn130]

I like having more than one shaft so that when i miss a shot, I can blame it on the shaft i'm playing with & swap it for one that would not have missed that shot.

 

[softshot]

my opinion....

Cue Cases do not equate to golf bags..

I believe that changing your cue ,or shaft constantly is detrimental to really refining your game as you are always adapting to a new tool. so you never reach the point of mastering one specific tool.

give me a broomstick shaped like a boomerang and within two years of constant play I'll run racks with it..

mastering the equipment you have is worth volumes more than constant change...

but hey... maybe thats just me...


I have a friend of mine who plays well ...roughly a ball or so better than me.. he owns a nice selection of valley bar cues various weights and lengths.. one is his primary cue...at home.. he has mastered the standard bar cue and as such he can grab off the wall just about anywhere and find a decent substitute for "his" cue...

I am thinking there might be a method to that madness...

 

[JimS]

Having a spare is a good idea.

 

[Cornerman]

I alternate shafts playing one on even days and the other on odd days. That way, the tips and the shafts both wear equally.
I've never understood keeping one shaft unplayed as a selling point. If one shaft is unplayed, it sure as hell will not play like the other one and that to me, is a reason to not buy said cue.

If both shafts are played with and not completely beat, they can be refinished by a cue smith if necessary.

I'm exactly the same way. I use both (or all) of my playing shafts. And personally, I never look at it from a resale value point of view.

In my early years, I had a chunk fly off my tip at the begining of a tournament. So, I had to use my friend's cue. That would have been a good time to have had a second broken-in shaft. I also was playing one time and someone knocked my cue to the floor. Someone broke the balls, the cueball flew off the table and hit my cue. Yeah, it was just leaning on a chair and when it hit the hard floor, the tip popped right off. And that was the end of me. Would have been nice to have a second shaft then.

So, I've always had 2nd shaft for my playing cue ever since. And I don't recall any tragedy like the above repeating, but I have switched shafts during play because one got something on the shaft or had a nick that I didn't want to fool around with right then. Or there was a spot on the ferrule that I didn't want to take care of right then.

Fred

 

[BillPorter]

Yep!

I like having more than one shaft so that when i miss a shot, I can blame it on the shaft i'm playing with & swap it for one that would not have missed that shot.

That's one of my favorite moves as well! In fact, sometimes my game picks right up with a switch of shafts. Maybe it's just "in my mind," but so what, what's in your mind is often what determines how you play.