A little cue shaft survey...

[Ninja.cues]

any chance for pictures ??

if you have time of cours .

If the beech one?
It's my profile pic but will put some up if you want.

[Ninja.cues]

I've made a hickory cue shafted cue before and liked it, one of the members on here has it. It was fairly stiff so allowed you to have quite a slim taper. Played with hornbeam and have made one before too, not my sort of thing though. Also made one from alder before and quite liked it

Had a hornbeam cue and it played lovely but didn't get it back from an ex....
Thing is, it's a hard one to keep straight over time..

[Ramon]

If the beech one?
It's my profile pic but will put some up if you want.

Your profile pic on facebook ?
no need , thanks .
gonna look for it on facebook .

[Ramon]

took me 5 min before i could visit this page .
Either Something wrong with this thread , or is it my internet connection .

[old school]

Agreed , but rap it on the table or diss it and like " the luggage " it will bite back. On a more serious note Birdseye Maple , Hornbeam , Alisier , Service tree wood ( looks like Pear ) , Hickory and Pear are all shaft woods I have tried along with the more " normal " Ash and Maple . A chap on this forum used Lacewood once , very pretty and I do know someone who has a Cherry wood cue , really beautiful cue , very smooth shaft indeed . p.s. Adam I still have that Hickory No 5 and also a one piece Hickory as well , agree about the taper , still love the cue .

[itsnoteasy]

I have a hankering to try a pearwood after holding an old lads Mannock anti grip pearwood shaft cue, kind of pink tinge to it, extremely smooth. He did tell me he only used it for the billiards and had another cue for snooker, so I don't know if it was to whippy, which you can get away with in billiards. I have read others say these can be difficult to keep straight as well but his was spot on.

[Ninja.cues]

Your profile pic on facebook ?
no need , thanks .
gonna look for it on facebook .

Yes that's the one and it's the same cue on my pic on here but will not be very clear.

There use to be lots of choice for cue shafts but things changed over the year's for some reason...

[blahblah01]

Competition leads to Monopoly.......

[winphenom]

Know of someone who used sandalwood. Haven't seen or tried it yet.

[blahblah01]

Know of someone who used sandalwood. Haven't seen or tried it yet.

Have a smell as well?

[mrbluejay]

Can't remember who, but somebody made a purple heart shaft, might have been Jim Black?

[Ninja.cues]

Can't remember who, but somebody made a purple heart shaft, might have been Jim Black?

A friend of mine is looking to get me to make him a two piece one with bamboo and purple heart in the butt

[blahblah01]

Bamboo? How is that going to work? It's almost not wood?

[winphenom]

Have a smell as well?

Not sure mate as I have not seen it yet. Waiting to have a look one of these days.

[Ninja.cues]

Bamboo? How is that going to work? It's almost not wood?

I will try to find the pic of the cue he wanted me to copy, if I can find it...