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Homemade Tip Replacement Lathe

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fastone371 said:
I have a metal lathe that I made a Delrin collet for to hold my shaft. Its overkill though and I always have to clean my lathe spotless before I will put my shaft in it. (I don't wanna hear it, I don't have time for funny business) With the amount of work required I just end up taking my shaft to the cue maker about 15 miles away. it gives me an excuse to look at pool stuff and custom cues under construction. That raises an interesting question though. I put oil on my chuck, ways (weighs, wheys????) and carriage (cross feed table, cutter tool mover thingy??????) obviously when working with metals we don't need to worry about oil but what about about when working with wood? What do you use to keep your lathe from rusting? Here in the Midwest humidity it only takes a few hours for rust to start forming if they are oil free.
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Have you tried waxing the lathe? That is the general method for tables and beds on woodworking equipment. I use Howard's paste wax.

You have the terms correct. The ways are what the carriage rides on. The carriage holds the cross slide and the cross slide has the tool post or tool holder.
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Jasmin Ouschan figuring out her dad's old full deflection Meucci

Toadshot
I agree with what others have already said. Had that been an original shaft, ferrule it would have been completely different. That shaft +3” 🤪

I still shoot an old original Meucci butt but use my favorite shaft (Jacoby V4) and while it took a bit, super confident with it.

Great video and post. Love her……
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"Split and split?" (New Term? Opinions on Splitting?)

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Two topics in one.

TOPIC ONE:

Did I coin a new term for the finalists agreeing to share the title and money and not play the final match?

"Split and split?" being the offer to 1) split the money, and 2) get the heck outta here (let's split), typically because it is late at night.

The act of agreeing to split is an old one, but until I said it, I have never heard anyone say "Split and split?" or "You wanna split and split?" or "It was close to 2:00 am, and they had work in the morning, so they split and split."

TOPIC TWO:

What do you think of players agreeing to split?

For a long time I wasn't a fan, but I have softened and arrived at this opinion...

For multi-day, or weekend tournaments with real money on the line, the players should play it out.

For weeknight tournaments that go late into the night, with prize money that is not much more than a nice dinner out or enough to pay to fill your gas tank, and most of the players that are eliminated have left and there is no audience that cares about the outcome, the players are entitled to split and split.
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Did going from a low-end cue to high-end improve your game?

fastone371
gregcantrall said:
Well, I have no clue who this person is and or what he concluded from his testing.
My personal experience and testing and picking the brains of top players started in the '80s.
My conversations with Cole regarding what he prefered in the feel of a cue were enlightening. He played with a Joss West[Oops East] His lifestyle led to him playing for his cue when his pocket hit empty. He could call Danny Jane's and just say, "make me another", as his specs were on file. Cole at one time had 6 shafts that were all made to the same specs yet only one suited him.
My taste in cues has evolved.
Cue characteristics of weight and balance is just the beginning. The type and hardness of the tip is Huge. My earliest preference was for a hard Le Pro. The grain in a maple shaft along with the part of the tree its cut from makes a big difference. The taper and dimensions of the shaft makes a big difference. The flex in the shaft coupled with the materials used in the joint and ferrule all combine to give a cue a personality.
Personal preferences are just that. What's good for a person that likes to spin their rock is different than for a center ball centrist. 🤷‍♂️
Different games favor different styles. Straight pool vs 9 ball is a contrasting comparison as 9 ball often calls for much longer trips around the table. Straight pool rewards pin point precision in the cueball resting spot after the shot. So more short precision cueball.
My cue making expert in the 80s was Roger Petit. He made me a 2 piece cue from broken bar cue salvage. A sneaky scalpel. With ivory ferrule and a small red fiber ring at the joint. A Stealth weapon, for sure. I even had a heavier shaft for the oversize cueball that was common back in the day. (That $60 cue earned a lot of money.)
My conversations with Cole brought a pole vault pole analogy. With the flex in the shaft being the character suited to cueball movement. More flex more movement less flex precision movement. 🤷‍♂️
While on a micro scale the various elements from tip hardness to shaft flex along with weight , length and balance gives every cue a unique personality.
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There is a lot to be said about over thinking something. I use my cue to shoot, not to over analyze something regardless of what Cole says.
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9-Ball needs to be fixed

RakRunr
9-ball is my least favorite popular game. I enjoyed it more before Texas Express became the norm. If you are old enough, you will remember when it was the new variation and a lot of old timers then didn't like the changes. My point is the game continues to evolve and so be it.

I have several issues with 9-ball, but the top complaint has always been that 9 on the break should not win the game. [I feel the same way about 8-ball as no game should be won or lost on the break.] More recently with the advent of template racks, making 2-3 balls on the break is common, so 9-ball quickly becomes 6 or 7-ball. I fully acknowledge that breaking is a skill, but today it feels like a good break is an outsized advantage.

One idea I've had that would address both of these is to simply spot all balls made on the break. No other changes would be necessary as it would effectively negate the advantage of template racks. I am usually an advocate for alternate breaks but I think with this format I would support winner break.
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