Your shaft LD or regular Mayple?

9Ballr said:
Solid maple for me.
I fell for the hype and lies about LD's making my game better etc.
but the bottom line is that there's nothing LD's can do that solid
maple can not do......and in my case and preference the solid maple
do everything better.
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Except squirt the cue ball less.

But if folks are proficient at adjusting, then bully for them. If they are not, then there is an option. Chose what you like, and what does best for you.

I don't think a $200 shaft is "hype" or "lies" if they do what they say they do, squirt the ball less. It's more expensive them some maple shafts, it's on par with some maple shafts, and it's a LOT cheaper than some other maple shafts.

I've NEVER read any marketing from OB or Predator that says you will absolutely will play better, because they don't know how bad your stroke is ;) What they say is it will "squirt" the cueball less, and if you like that, then "buy me". If not, no worries.
 
ChicagoRJ said:
Except squirt the cue ball less.

But if folks are proficient at adjusting, then bully for them. If they are not, then there is an option. Chose what you like, and what does best for you.

I don't think a $200 shaft is "hype" or "lies" if they do what they say they do, squirt the ball less. It's more expensive them some maple shafts, it's on par with some maple shafts, and it's a LOT cheaper than some other maple shafts.

I've NEVER read any marketing from OB or Predator that says you will absolutely will play better, because they don't know how bad your stroke is ;) What they say is it will "squirt" the cueball less, and if you like that, then "buy me". If not, no worries.
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Sure they deflect less, but since you still have to compensate anyway it doesn't matter.
For me solid maple do everything better than LDs.
This includes going down table in a straight line with English.
Drawing, following, plus I get to break with my play cue.
I've tried them all. I even currently have a 314-3, Z3 and Vantage, 360 etc. (OB doesn't work for me
at all, not even a little bit) and I always go back to solid maple.
I play in an 8-ball and Straight Pool leagues and I see a LOT of people who play with solid maple shafts,
probably a strong majority, and many those people play an amazing game.
All that with their solid maple shafts.
To each his own is the bottom line.
 
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I tried LD shafts for a couple weeks and just couldn't get used to them. Maple is my choice
 
If you had a perfect piece of solid maple, it can be made to be a LD shaft. Sorting through pallets of dowels to find the 10% or less that would be considered "perfect" would be a daunting and costly task. The pie construction just makes more yield of what otherwise would be barely passable wood, if that... So they are "better" because they are more consistent - which is what all factories strive to achieve. But that doesn't necessarily make them "better" for all...
 
only thing i find harder with a traditional shaft is a long, hard cut shot to the corner when the object ball is on the short rail. For some reason, two tips of left or right isn't working as smoothly as it did with an ld shaft.
 
Ak Guy said:
I use Diviney Lake Salvage shafts. I have tried 3 LD shafts and just prefer the maple shafts.

How bout you guys, is it LD or maple?

I know great pool can be played with either shaft.
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What is a Diviney Lake Salvage shaft ?

I talked with Pat recently and he told me he was offering LD shafts, but it was not clear to me if he was making or buying them.
 
Lake Salvage or "timeless timber", as Keith Josey calls it, is shafts made from logs salvaged from the great lakes. Very tight grained old growth Maple treated by having been submerged in cold lake waters for many decades. Have to admit, I'm tempted. Never have tried one, so dunno...
 
pwd72s said:
Lake Salvage or "timeless timber", as Keith Josey calls it, is shafts made from logs salvaged from the great lakes. Very tight grained old growth Maple treated by having been submerged in cold lake waters for many decades. Have to admit, I'm tempted. Never have tried one, so dunno...
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Thanks
Sound like that might cost more than revo
 
Chopdoc said:
What makes people think LD shafts are not maple?

Why can't maple shafts be LD?

The posted question has been asked so many times and literally does not make sense and no amount of explaining can make it make sense. :eek:

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The first question, Doc, should be whether the title of this thread, "MAYPLE" was a
missplelling of "MAPLE".....or MAYPOLE....

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All I know

I know many LD shafts are made from maple and I think most members here also know that.

The Diviney Lake Salvage shafts are what I use and they run $250.00 and up. Pat told me he prefers his regular maple shafts, but one of his sons prefers the Lake Salvage shafts.

Two of my three Lake Salvage shafts are 12.5 mm at the tip and one is 12.75 all have an extended taper so the shaft diameter is consistent through my stroke.. They have 3/4" long Ivory X ferrules. I would describe them as giving a stiff hit, especially the one with the 12.75 tip diameter.

I like the idea of using reclaimed submerged wood and read a very interesting article on the internet on what happens to the molecular structure of wood that has been submerged for many years.

Is a Lake Salvage shaft any better then any thing else, ya got me. Pat offers regular maple, Lake Salvage and Kiel wood shafts, but will make up about any shaft a buyer wants, LD from who ever etc.
 
I prefer LD shafts.

However, a good friend who plays banks a lot better than I do says regular Maple shafts (not LD) are the way to go when playing banks.

If that's true, I wonder why it is true?

JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
I prefer LD shafts.

However, a good friend who plays banks a lot better than I do says regular Maple shafts (not LD) are the way to go when playing banks.

If that's true, I wonder why it is true?

JoeyA
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It's probably just whatever you get used to.
 
Funny about the ld shafts....
some days it is the hottest thing ever, all that action!!
Some days it is all over the place and like a horse that is too much "hoss" for the rider .
I know it is all in me and the variations in how well I can concentrate on what I see.

Those days I go back to the basic maple shaft ( pechauer in this case) and next time out to play I may feel focused and rock w the mezz wx900 i play with most of the time.
The predator ld's I have shot with are waaay to tweaky for me, and the ob classic is awesome, but still a lotta pony for me to control.
That mezz feels like a standard maple hit, but throws off quite a bit less....I really like it a lot.
Anybody else find the need to switch back and forth?
 
I've got several different types of shafts in my collection of cues but I'm happiest with the "Pro" shaft from Meucci. It's all maple and it hits just like my old, old maple shafts that came on my old Meuccis.
 
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