Faulk titanium or carbon fiber?

[Mark Purney]

Thanks for the clarification - you are absolutely correct. It would have 
been more accurate of me to say:
A carbon fiber tube is significantly more rigid and resistant to 
deflection than a steel or titanium tube (or solid cylinder) of similar 
dimension.


Ron Nossaman wrote:
> Not exactly. Carbon fiber is considerably more flexible than either 
> titanium or steel. It's very high resistance to both compression and 
> stretch at the extreme fiber of the section assembly can make the 
> assembly more rigid for a given section than either steel or titanium. 
> Flexibility can be controlled to some degree with fiber orientation in 
> the matrix, as well as section dimensions. Steve's carbon tube has an 
> enormous section diameter, so it's going to be the stiffest hammer 
> shaft on the planet. Remember that the first iteration used aluminum 
> tubing, and was still way stiffer than conventional steel shafted 
> hammers just because of the section size.