kingwang said:

Happens all the time in NYC! It's one of the nice things about living in a major metro area. They'll just randomly drop by and play our local tournaments, both handicapped and unhandicapped.

Francisco Bustamante just dropped by a couple weeks ago and took down one of the open ones. Here's me "beating" (aka shitting in the 9 ball a few times ) Moritz Neuhausen a couple years ago in a $80 handicapped tournament: Login to view embedded media
Just in the past two years, I've played 4 players that were rated 790+ just in these tournaments, and I don't even go to that many of them.

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SSDiver2112 said:

Got a couple more rods of Tomahawk. Great stuff!!

Another Rino fixed with Tomahawk.

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middleofnowhere said:

I want to tell you from experience I've got seven lathes sitting in a shop. Forget the Rube Goldberg setup. To start just go by yourself and inexpensive mini lathe. With a few simple mods it'll do what you want. If it turns out you like what you're doing and want to go with something even bigger and more capable. Surprisingly you won't get rid of the mini lathe cuz it'll still have uses. making ferrul and various things.

And that's all I'll say on the subject i know you're going to do what you want but I hope other people who have mini lathers and have had a lot of fun with them working on cues will chime in. Also you can get an inexpensive wood lathe long enough to put a cue between centers for rewrapping finishing polishing and a whole bunch of other things.

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TheGrandWazoo said:

As an AZ native, I thought Yuma was a weird choice, but now it’s gonna be super fun. The wife decided to go and use it as a chance to see her best-y who is driving from So-Cal. Right in the middle for her and us. Then we scored the hat trick, an ABnB that allows pets, has a pool AND a pool table.

The girls hang out by the pool with the dogs and me and a buddy will hang at the tournament and watch the monsters!

I will find you Bob, I haven’t forgotten the virgin screwdriver.

Gonna be HOT!

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garczar said:

This is KaoFa's site. The Awens are the custom and KF are the standard line. They will also make any design you want. Very high quality work: https://www.poolcues.com.tw/?fbclid=IwAR0pgfraM0j_v8lvyedFaX4KEsxio1eRWyAhGC1RgHLkgegAmMgE1FpGSaU

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nataddrho said:

I purchased parts to make a homemade tip changing lathe. There are a couple other threads similar to this but their picture links are broken.

I already made a speed controller out of spare parts that I had, which generates 270 oz-in (1.4 ft-lbs) of torque from 100 to 1000 RPM... I think this is enough for tip shaping work...

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I am planning on directly coupling the motor to a chuck. I'll use cloth or electrical tape on the joint end of the shaft. The tip end of the shaft will fit though a pillow bearing with collets. My amazon order is under $101 including shipping.


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The bearings have set screws in them which I hope will allow me to adjust them using a dial caliper (which I don't own yet). I just plan on using a block of wood with a razor blade screwed into the top as a tool, or maybe just a block of sand paper.

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Is there anything I am missing?

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DeeDeeCues said:

With the parasitic losses of the crap bearings, I bet against that motor ever having the torque necessary at the speed needed for even cutting tips.

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