Eye Shafts Start
The Original
Birds Eye Shaft
The Eye Shaft
I started making the eye shaft in 1978.

I needed some shaft wood, I purchased some, but it was not perfect it had a few birds eye in it.
Some of the wood was okay for the shafts I needed, but, but, but , the wood had little birds eye's in it.
I went to the Pool hall and talked to some of the guys, some said it could work,  some said I don't know.
The wood seemed to be very stiff and it had no particular grain to it.
The grain would go through the birds eye, then back to a straight line after they passed through each one.

At the time I happened to be teaching at a Junior College in Northern California.
One of my friends was the head of the Science Department, I gave him a shaft I had turned,
It's strength and its capability to transfer energy from one end to the other was great.
The shaft lost very little of its energy when you struck the ball,
This was what we wanted in a shaft.  I had been looking for some thing like this for long time.
Of course the only true way to test these shafts was to put on my cue and hit balls with it,
 I did, the hit, control, and its feel was so much greater than the shafts we had been using
 I started playing with one on my personnel cue.
Before long several of the guys at the hall was playing with them.  

This was the start of the shafts that I make today.
From that point I have used these shafts on my personnel cues,
I have experimented with many different type of birds eye maples.
I think if you try these shafts you will find that they are different playing
 than  any thing  you have tried and if you try one, I mean really try one,
 You may never go back to a hard rock maple shaft again.

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT,
RETURN IT THE WAY YOU RECEIVED IT,
 AND I WILL RETURN YOUR MONEY.

Thanks For Your Time
Dale Teague