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Thank you , Chris. I will note that you are in the category of cuemakers who think superglue is a great finish. TW

Please, my friend, share with me your argument that superglue is a suitable finish for great cues, or that there are some great cuemakers who use superglue for their finish. It's either a suitable finish or it's not - and I get that you, as an industry supplier, would not want to offend any...

Yeah. You know I hear claims like that all the time. It's actually astonishing how many of today's cuemakers [I never heard of] were "building cues" in the 1980's - especially when you consider how remarkably small the custom cue industry was back then. Except for one little problem. I first...

Uh, no, that's like someone from the Mets no longer teaching his own personal baseball techniques because a bunch of Little League coaches band together and loudly argue that his techniques aren't any good. TW

Nice story, Chris, but the truth is too many latter-day cuemakers are so heavily invested in the things they've "taught" others that they can't stand the idea of being contradicted. I'll offer one simple example: Superglue "finishes". What a TERRIBLE idea that is, but even as I post this...

Yeah. Like I went 35+ years - the first 20 being when there were ZERO sources for cuemaking tips or instructions - without developing and clever or efficient ways of doing anything. The funniest thing to me is now, after there have been at least two manuscripts, many DVDs, and countless Youtube...

Well actually, I started to write a detailed instruction piece about the subject, but three or four paragraphs into it I suddenly remembered the last time I tried to offer some hard-earned advice. It seems AZB's decade-or-less expert "Youtube cuemakers" all know so much more about cuemaking...

I have a great method for slabbing Ivory that I've used for 30+ years. Reliable, controllable results with very little labor required - and minimal waste involved. TW

It was a 3/8" stainless rod stock Leonard bought in bulk at an auction from a shipbuilding firm that had gone bankrupt. Initially, Leonard used short lengths of the thread rod itself to make his taps, but he may have had hardened steel ones custom made later on. He may also have gone to live...

I knew Burton Spain quite well. After he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer he made the decision to sell his cue shop and train the buyer (Joel Hercek) to build cues the way he had built them. Joel remained faithful to that vision with the sole exception of changing to a more conventional...

Yup. With this thread I think I am finished ever offering advise to neophyte cuemakers. Having watched some DVD's and YouTube videos, they already know everything anyway. TW

I'm surprised you didn't realize "hanging" IS a stress-free storage technique. TW

You have no "case". Anyone with a grasp of 8th-grade English would realize my use of the word "assuming" was a qualifying condition for the statement that contained it. But feel free to nit-pick; you do it so well. TW

Speak for yourself - after 40 years of doing this, I am not "running on assumptions". TW

Hanging is fine, as is standing it perfectly upright. Regardless of previous advice, and assuming it is sufficiently oversize, do NOT seal it. You want it to do as much moving around ("warping") as it can while it's still big enough to re-center and re-cut. If you seal it up tight it's more...

Not knocking your post, just found the price to be kinda high for what they are. Almost every day on this forum you can find someone asking rudimentary questions about "getting into" cuemaking. My personal opinion is that they can use as many different points of view as possible to guide them...

I've bought hundreds of feet of black Delrin rod - diameters from 2.5" all the way down to 5/16". In a gang lathe with a bar puller, the longer the stock the more efficient the operation. With 6-inch pieces I would have 2 inches of each piece that never got machined due to collet length and...

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So pretty much full retail for off-cuts? TW

Photographers will spend untold fortunes on lighting system attempting to create perfect lighting without "hots pots" or unintended shadows. So they add small fill lights here and there and reflector panels to chase the shadows out from under a cue... If only they had a lighting system so large...