Red Oak Shaft???

[noel]

Mike... will address this question to you as you are signed-in currently.
The wood of choice for kobuto (traditional weapons of Okinawa) is red oak.
Used in bo staffs, nunchaku, tonfa... all very hard hitting straight-grained wood, with a taut striking resonance when you hit someone over the head with it.
Have you, or anyone else tried red oak as a cue shaft?

Cheers!


=o)

Noel

[MikeWooldridge]

have played with an oak cue. i did not like it.

dunno if red oak would be different but i suspect it may be too hard with little or not enough 'feel'.

great for hitting people over the head though i should think...

[poolqjunkie]

Mike, you tried purpleheart shaft?

[MikeWooldridge]

no. tbh, i think all the experiments with different woods have been made over the years.

the reason ash and maple are used extensively is cos they have the best characteristics for cues.

i fancy making an ebony cue one day, with ash splices. just for a laugh. reckon it would feel absolutely awful, but look really cool...

[mattyshinobi22]

my mates got a ebony shafted cue, quite firm hit of the ball but heavy too., similar to hunt and osborne cues with all weight being in the shaft

[RGCirencester]

What I want is a curly maple shafted cue...

[brettski]

What I want is a curly maple shafted cue...

Go and leave one out in this rain and you'll soon get your wish RG hope your doing well mate.

[eaoin11]

Have you guys seen these cues? "professional quality cues with a twist" ...
http://www.aussiebushcues.com/

Their lightest cue is 20-24 ounces but "loses nothing in strength and durability..." lol

[brettski]

Have you guys seen these cues? "professional quality cues with a twist" ...
http://www.aussiebushcues.com/

Thats quite amazing, perhaps Ronnie should use one of these cues as his next challange?

[RGCirencester]

If you think about it we're a strange breed here in this ere cues section... If Mike made an ebony shafted cue we'd all be like "awesome!" but if he painted an ash shaft black we'd tell him what an idiot he is!

[brettski]

If you think about it we're a strange breed here in this ere cues section... If Mike made an ebony shafted cue we'd all be like "awesome!" but if he painted an ash shaft black we'd tell him what an idiot he is!

We are but we're a good bunch of people, I'd be really interested to see how it played and we all seem to think along the same lines.

[RGCirencester]

I also want a tulipwood shafted cue. I think that would be awesome

[KeithinFrance]

Too pretty to use, you'd be so distracted when you tried to sight, you'd play distinctly badly, I'm sure!

To go back to the original question, I tried an oak shafted cue that Robin Cook made for me, but I couldn't get on with it at all; no 'feel' when you hit the balls, and too dense and heavy for my liking. I'm pretty sure, as Mike says, that Red Oak'd play the same, unfortunately.

There is a guy in New Zealand who makes cues with woods native to NZ and he claims they out-perform ash and maple in terms of 'feel' and responsiveness, woods like rewarewa and silky oak, I think, BUT, his prices make even Mike's cues look cheap at the price.

This is the link: http://www.cuesdirectnz.co.nz/

[RGCirencester]

Wow i want a rewarewa cue that looks cool.
Expensive though

[KeithinFrance]

Wow i want a rewarewa cue that looks cool.
Expensive though

There seems to be a recurrent theme to a lot of your posts, young Rob!

Shouldn't you be revising?!?