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Shaft compression...why?

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Todd Mathis:

--- Quote from: PEARL DRUMS/PEARLY/PD/DRUMS on November 12, 2019, 09:55:50 am ---The whole shaft gets compressed. Example, take a 23/64 shaft and run it through a heated up compression block and make it an 11/32. I can only assume the shafts are much harder as the fibers are compressed. Some of the best POC shafts I ever toucher were old Acme compressed stock. I think the quality of those old shafts was in the grain structure more so than the compression.

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This would make all the sense in the world.  I assume they shaft would be tougher too.

TSA:
bear in mind that many shafts are already compressed coming from the manufacturer, in other words.
 as a manufacturer you have two options of finishing your shafts, either you sand them, or you compress them, both have their pros and cons. but the biggest one is pitchy wood wont sand!

now compressing through a block, is to a larger degree only compressing an outer layer or shell on the shaft, the heat and pressure is not going in very deep.
it is a great tool.
 you are essentially getting the spine and mass ( and most of the "toughness") of a 23/64 shaft , but in an 11/32 diameter shaft!
to compress an entire shaft is another story all together :OK

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