shaft

[o'neill]

This question is for Trevor, Mike or anyone who have some knowledge adout woods used to make a cue.
Ash and maple are usualy used but I saw on ebay a "taylor balanced cue" with a hornbeam shaft and a "j-p mannok" with a pearwood shaft, I've never heard about these woods before as it seems that these woods are not used today.
Does anybody know how plays cues with these shaft and why these woods are'nt used today?

[Wity]

They are used, just not very common. There is or was a couple of days ago a guy selling two cues on Ebay both he reckoned were Hornbeam.
Use the search thingy here and you'll find a post I made last year where I had walked into my now local snooker/pool hall and the gaffer was playing pool with his Hornbeam cue against a guy with a Pearwood one now that was a rare sight. Especially as the custom Pearwood one had cost the guy over £700 from b+w Billiards of Cradley Heath. You'll also find a thread where ADR147 has posted a pic of a steamed Pearwood cue by mastercue of Thailand and a discussion about them.

wasn't this one but: http://www.bandwbilliards.co.uk/cues_detail.php?ID=46

[ADR147]

steamed pearwood is a great feel on a cue shaft the problem is its a bit soft so they tend to bend.

[Watford]

Yep I heard that!
I love a smooth cue (use maple at mo) would love a stemmed pearwood cue, great colour. They are said to be very whippy too!
Not many use it now didn't know B&W did one.
Dragon cues stopped making them because they aren't stable.

Be interested to see what Trevor, Mike and Keith have to say.
I'll keep saving my pennies and may get one one day. Have a great playing cue and not enough spare cash at moment, so no dice!

I bid on a Hornbeam Burwat years ago but was a little unsure because never played with one.

Heard of oak and Hickory cues too.

There's these Kiwis too use allsorts of funny local wood:
http://cuesdirectnz.co.nz/index.html

[mattyuk]

oh no the google BOTS!