Yep! I can remember having those thoughts after seeing your shop!
Larry
It was a pleasure visiting with Eric, he does some fantastic
Work with the machines that he uses.
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Yep! I can remember having those thoughts after seeing your shop!
Larry
If I could only have one lathe ( I have a dedicated taper machine ), I'd steal Searing's Clausing lathe.
A 12 by 40 old American steel ( in great shape ) with a motor at the bottom and has VFD would be my choice.
Kim,I have never said that you must have a metal lathe to make cues. What equipment do you use?
Kim,
I am surprised by your response above.
You have always degraded smaller cue lathes as being inadequate in so many ways to your metal lathes that you have. You have said it is the only way to make a cue correctly.
Gary
,,, coincided with my wife or me or both of us being active duty military.
I just wanted to say Thanks to both of you for your Service, then sign out by saying,,,
Thanks again, Dave.
,,, coincided with my wife or me or both of us being active duty military.
I just wanted to say Thanks to both of you for your Service, then sign out by saying,,,
Thanks again, Dave.
Thank you, sir, for the opportunity. Best years of my life were active duty.
I think it's a little tough to argue what lathe or lathes are best b/c we don't know what the other makers' processes are .
Ernie G. has multiple metal lathes. He said each one is a dedicated machine.
Hell, his ring cutter alone is worth thousands.https://youtu.be/zpl9ANYjjWE?t=576
Collet chuck, variable speed and all. Just sick.
Tad had 17 metal lathes in his shop.
Searing has a few Jet and Clausing and a Porper .
That was the business model for more than a few top cue makers, set up and ran like a machine shop, which it was. They may have had employees running those machines too. If you were trying to sell overseas you had better have the shop to fill an order.
Even without workers running those other machines, it is just more efficient AND more accurate to have dedicated machines.
Regardless of specific machine choice, having dedicated machines/jigs makes all the difference.
Well I went and pulled the trigger on this... Enco 111-3320. Spindle bore 1.5 inches. 40 inches between centers an 35 inches from jaws on chuck to point of drill chuck when fully extended. Does metric and standard threads from 4 to 112 pi. It was a canabalization machine in a machine shop. 3 phase motor replaced by a single phase.If it helps swing you toward a Deluxe Cue Smith the new model with 3/4 HP motor can do live threading under power instead of having to hand turn it, provided you get the thread milling option. The motor will also slow down slow enough to put Cue Cote Epoxy Finish on without an extra gear motor.