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bubsbug

bubsbug

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Thhis guy wanted me to replace a cracked ring. I discovered that the wood beneith the collar was cracked just before entering the bigger portion of the butt. It is losee gosee.

Can I cut off, bore down into the pointed section of the butt and glue in a dowel and restructure?

How far should I drill and bore? replace with maple wood or something harder? Will this hild up??????
 

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Thhis guy wanted me to replace a cracked ring. I discovered that the wood beneith the collar was cracked just before entering the bigger portion of the butt. It is losee gosee.

Can I cut off, bore down into the pointed section of the butt and glue in a dowel and restructure?

How far should I drill and bore? replace with maple wood or something harder? Will this hild up??????
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That is the way to repair this problem. I have a two piece delrin block with bolts to tighten and clamp down on the dowel so that it is solid. I then bore out the prong to a distance of about a inch below the end of the crack but at least 2.5 inch deep. I then turn a dowel that will fit the bored hole fairly snuggly and a couple of inches longer than the bored hole and put a couple of finer glue relief grooves along it's length so that the excess glue can be forced out slowly. I then release the clamp, put generous amount of slow setting, thin epoxy in the bored hole and on the dowel and then slowly insert the dowel into the prong. This will force the epoxy into any crack and crevice in the prong. Once the dowel is fully inserted I then re-tighten the clamp so that it returns to it's pre-cracked form. Wipe off the excess glue and allow to dry. Piece of cake and stronger than before being cracked. I usually use either maple, purple heart or a laminated maple as the dowel.

Dick
 
new dowel

Only thing I might do differently than the maple dowel Dick mentioned is to use canvas phenolic. I would only do this on a higher end cue for a little more structural strength. Dick's suggestion is definitely valid though. His method would give nearly the same weight mine would be a little heavier.
Tom Gedris, Triple Cross Cues
 
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