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Originally Posted by RoyL  Hi Ken,
I keep reading about how each subsequent year it is getting harder and harder for cuemakers to purchase good maple for shafts. Is there really that much of a shortage for high grade maple shaft wood? Or are some cuemakers just not looking in the right locations?
I ask this because I see some people claiming to have "their" sources, and they seem to have vast quantities of what they deem to be high grade shaft wood. One website I visited had what appeared to be pallets of shaftwood.
Just wanted to get a cuemaker's opinion. |
Good shaft wood is no harder to find now than it was 20 years ago. Old growth trees were milled into lumber in the late 1800's, nothing is old growth now. Good shaft wood just cost allot more now, and some cue makers are not as picky as the ones making cues 20 years ago were. No matter where you get your shaft wood, you get good, mediocre and so-so from time to time. You have to set a standard as to what you will use and live with the cost.