Who makes the best wooden shafts?

I've played with a standard pechaur shaft for a few years now and now complaints. In fact, everyone who tries it out loves it, even the teacher who gave me a lesson.

I will say though, this teacher had a hoppe Titleist conversion and that cue had a great hitting wood shaft. Just super solid hit.
 
Ken_4fun said:
I use a Searing shaft on my Gus for my usual playing cue.

Probably the best shaft I have ever used.

Ken
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For that price, it just has to be even if it's not LOL
I forgot where the meme or joke is but there is something about a guy spending a bunch of money on something and he was asked "are you enjoying it?" "for that much money, I must!"
 
hang-the-9 said:
For that price, it just has to be even if it's not LOL
I forgot where the meme or joke is but there is something about a guy spending a bunch of money on something and he was asked "are you enjoying it?" "for that much money, I must!"
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I was offered the matching Searing shaft for $300 and at the time I thought that was alot. Now Predators and all these other junk shafts are probably more than that.

So, is it expensive? Not really. Bushka shafts go for $1K+ and Szamboti shafts are nearly that. I just ordered a Southwest and it comes with (2) shafts and a third one is $525 ( didnt order a third). I understand you might not know what things sell for, but that is okay.

So for $300 the Searing shaft sounds like a bargin now. It plays wonderful and the taper is excellent.

Ken
 
TheBasics said:
Howdy All;

We read a lot about who makes the best cues, I thought I'd ask about shafts.
A few years ago there was some discussion about a particular shaft that one of the Pros,
thinkin' it may have been Ruslan Chinakhov, during a match at Griff's???
Anyway, my question is who makes the best wooden shafts, a particular cue maker or
a manufacturer? I'd prefer to leave the Kielwood and the Lake Superior wood out of it
as they are kind of a "Specialty" .
Thanks for ya'll's thoughts.

hank
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IMO Dennis Dieckman is top of list. But, he's busy playing at the Big Sky Billiard Room.

His shaft wood was 20yr and older Hard Maple.
He took a year or 2 to finish one after the blank was gnats ass away from done.

He measured runout on one of mine after 5 or 8 years. Forget the number. Of course not dead nuts but He was happy.
 
Lets say you have one of the best shafts made by a cuemaker with a 7 year waiting period. You buy an excellent piece of maple wood, copy the taper, use the same ferrule material, barring the warping issue, it should play the same as the best shaft, Right?
 
fish2 said:
Lets say you have one of the best shafts made by a cuemaker with a 7 year waiting period. You buy an excellent piece of maple wood, copy the taper, use the same ferrule material, barring the warping issue, it should play the same as the best shaft, Right?
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fish2, Howdy;

Okay, I'll bite, I don't think so. Each section long or short, will be different. They won't act or
respond the same as they are not the same chunk of natural material or man-made material.
Regarding wood, was the original growing from the North, South, East or West facing side of
the tree? Was there some stressor that was near the section that the piece you are working?
Was that stressor above, below or to either side? A veritable plethora of variables that will have
an influence on each piece of material you wish to work with. Ain't it a kick in the butt?

hank
 
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