This story begins with a heated debate regarding the merits of Low Deflection pool cue shafts and the various companies that create them. This debate normally centers around two main companies: Predator serves as one of the first companies to make a commercially successful LD shaft, and OB—a company out of Texas that has a highly engineered product that is reknown to produce a softer feel. As this debate rages on, other companies are mentioned. Due to the educated nature of t