TAPER BAR.......for historian buffs

[BarenbruggeCues]

Who was the "first" cuemaker to claim the use of a profiling taper bar set up on a lathe to taper the shape of their shafts/butts?

Please......supply the source of info/documentation..... not just a guess.



<~~~inquiring minds would like to know...........

 

[qbilder]

I'm doubting heavily that this kind of information exists. But when you are ready for guesses, I got two.

 

[cueman]

Tad told me back in the 1990's that he had been using the same hand filed shaft taper bar for 30 years. So Tad was using one 40 plus years ago, but beyond that I don't know. I seriously doubt he was the first.

 

[macguy]

Who was the "first" cuemaker to claim the use of a profiling taper bar set up on a lathe to taper the shape of their shafts/butts?

Please......supply the source of info/documentation..... not just a guess.



<~~~inquiring minds would like to know...........

I would think that much done on the lathes as it applies to cues is cross over from other forms of machining and wood turning. I doubt there is much under the sun that is new.
A lot is just common sense if you have any background in machining. I have a lot of old books. One book is a shop manual from a ford plant from the 1930's. I have used set up's and jig's I found it it for different things I was trying to do. Most discoveries are only new to the current discoverer.

 

[BarenbruggeCues]

I would think that much done on the lathes as it applies to cues is cross over from other forms of machining and wood turning. I doubt there is much under the sun that is new.
A lot is just common sense if you have any background in machining. I have a lot of old books. One book is a shop manual from a ford plant from the 1930's. I have used set up's and jig's I found it it for different things I was trying to do. Most discoveries are only new to the current discoverer.

Understandable.......I'm just curious who takes the blame for the first in cuemaking.

 

[dave sutton]

it was me.. i started using a taper bar around 1905...jk

 

[pdcue]

Understandable.......I'm just curious who takes the blame for the first in cuemaking.

Palmer - in the 60s - unless I've been misled.

Mr McMac is right - it was just using the ideas of a toolpost grinder,
as oposed to a full blown grinder, and a 'tracer lathe'

Dale<often known to have been gulible>