Adjustable Glue fixture

customcuelathe

customcuelathe

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Here is a custom made adjustable glue / clamp fixture.
It ls build on 36" dovetail with 2 custom steady rests, it comes with all replaceable clamping heads to mate exactly to what ever you are gluing, joint color, butt cap etc. The hand wheel screw comes with a live center style swivel head so you do not twist what ever you are gluing while clamping.
Those will be sold individually or in sets of 2 or 3, the price is $165 each plus shipping. There is a $40 charge for mounting them in to sets of 2 or 3
Best Regards
Bassel
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Interesting fixture and the price seems fair. I'll keep it in mind in the future.
 
Good Sir,
Please forgive my ignorance regarding your fixture but I was hoping that you could inform me as to how
your fixture differs in it's function from a $20 bar-clamp.

I'm what you might call 'old school' and don't have much in the way of 'hands on'
experience with the modern cue specific machinery so I suspect that I must be missing
something here. Am I?

I do realize that aluminum is expensive so why use it in this application when steel
would be much more cost effective and more resistant to bowing which is what led me to suggest the bar-clamp.
The bar-clamp is not a novel idea. I've got 6 of them that I've been using for this
purpose for nearly 20 yrs. Prior to that, I'd just leave the piece chucked in the lathe
using the tail-stock to keep pressure applied.
If there's an advantage to your fixture, I'd be interested to know what it is.
I just don't see this as a wheel that needs to be reinvented. :scratchhead:
 
I might be wrong, but if I understand the concept correctly I think this fixture might be quite helpful, specially if you are gluing joint/Ringwork and buttcap/Ringwork.
Might free up a lathe that you might need for something else.
KJ, funny that I never thought about using a bar clamp for that purpose, now I do ;)
 
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KJ Cues said:
Good Sir,
Please forgive my ignorance regarding your fixture but I was hoping that you could inform me as to how
your fixture differs in it's function from a $20 bar-clamp.

I'm what you might call 'old school' and don't have much in the way of 'hands on'
experience with the modern cue specific machinery so I suspect that I must be missing
something here. Am I?

I do realize that aluminum is expensive so why use it in this application when steel
would be much more cost effective and more resistant to bowing which is what led me to suggest the bar-clamp.
The bar-clamp is not a novel idea. I've got 6 of them that I've been using for this
purpose for nearly 20 yrs. Prior to that, I'd just leave the piece chucked in the lathe
using the tail-stock to keep pressure applied.
If there's an advantage to your fixture, I'd be interested to know what it is.
I just don't see this as a wheel that needs to be reinvented. :scratchhead:
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Ok
I totally see your point, before I go into all the jobs this fixture can do where a bar clamp can't.
First I will not take all the credit for building this fixture, 2 months ago a cue maker who had been using bar claps for years contacted me and asked me to build him this fixture. He said he wanted something more precise and adjustable with changing heads. I won't go to much in details about that.
This fixture can be easily converted to:
Leather fixture
Finishing lathe ( with a low RPM) spindle pulley insert onto the bottom steady rest with a pressed in bearing)
The list can go on, now if you compare it to a bar clamps, well there is no comparison
Best regards
 
KJ Cues said:
Good Sir,
Please forgive my ignorance regarding your fixture but I was hoping that you could inform me as to how
your fixture differs in it's function from a $20 bar-clamp.

I'm what you might call 'old school' and don't have much in the way of 'hands on'
experience with the modern cue specific machinery so I suspect that I must be missing
something here. Am I?

I do realize that aluminum is expensive so why use it in this application when steel
would be much more cost effective and more resistant to bowing which is what led me to suggest the bar-clamp.
The bar-clamp is not a novel idea. I've got 6 of them that I've been using for this
purpose for nearly 20 yrs. Prior to that, I'd just leave the piece chucked in the lathe
using the tail-stock to keep pressure applied.
If there's an advantage to your fixture, I'd be interested to know what it is.
I just don't see this as a wheel that needs to be reinvented. :scratchhead:
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you are correct sir!!!!!!
 
KJ Cues said:
Good Sir,
Please forgive my ignorance regarding your fixture but I was hoping that you could inform me as to how
your fixture differs in it's function from a $20 bar-clamp.

I'm what you might call 'old school' and don't have much in the way of 'hands on'
experience with the modern cue specific machinery so I suspect that I must be missing
something here. Am I?

I do realize that aluminum is expensive so why use it in this application when steel
would be much more cost effective and more resistant to bowing which is what led me to suggest the bar-clamp.
The bar-clamp is not a novel idea. I've got 6 of them that I've been using for this
purpose for nearly 20 yrs. Prior to that, I'd just leave the piece chucked in the lathe
using the tail-stock to keep pressure applied.
If there's an advantage to your fixture, I'd be interested to know what it is.
I just don't see this as a wheel that needs to be reinvented. :scratchhead:
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$20 bar clamp??? You spendthrift!!! What's wrong with a scrap 2 x 4
and two bolts??

I have also used the lathe, I often called it my $6,000 C-clamp.
 
Wow I can't believe you guys here on. All bassel is trying to do is OFFER THE PRODUCTS THAT SOME OF YOU CUE MAKERS ASK HIM TO BUILD. If you don't want to buy the products that's all cool. Keep using the old school ways if it works for you that's great. I am learning to build cues the old school ways. But it is nice to have the new ways to help too. IMO THANKS DAVE

PS as we all know Hightower makes great products as well as Unique and Todd. Bassel is trying to offer his own products as well.

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DavesCueRepair said:
Wow I can't believe you guys here on. All bassel is trying to do is OFFER THE PRODUCTS THAT SOME OF YOU CUE MAKERS ASK HIM TO BUILD. If you don't want to buy the products that's all cool. Keep using the old school ways if it works for you that's great. I am learning to build cues the old school ways. But it is nice to have the new ways to help too. IMO THANKS DAVE

PS as we all know Hightower makes great products as well as Unique and Todd. Bassel is trying to offer his own products as well.

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
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I don't have a dog in this fighht - but I would point out that the MAIN
purpose of this board is to be a DISCUSSION forum. Not a sales forum.

True, it is considered bad form to comment negatively in the
Wanted/For Sale section, but this ain't that.

For my own part, I am perfectly fine with Bassel being another guy
offering Taig compatable cue stuff, and doing it here.

However, some have criticied that he has never participated in any
kind of discussion.

It would seem that, if it is posted here, it is open for comments both good and bad.

At least he hasn't made 97 different post to sell 104 items

Dale
 
DavesCueRepair said:
Wow I can't believe you guys here on. All bassel is trying to do is OFFER THE PRODUCTS THAT SOME OF YOU CUE MAKERS ASK HIM TO BUILD. If you don't want to buy the products that's all cool. Keep using the old school ways if it works for you that's great. I am learning to build cues the old school ways. But it is nice to have the new ways to help too. IMO THANKS DAVE

PS as we all know Hightower makes great products as well as Unique and Todd. Bassel is trying to offer his own products as well.

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
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Bassel great job and I hope you sell many of them. making cuemaker/repairman jobs easier and set up looks much easier/less messy with your new tool..GL with your sales...jmho
 
pdcue said:
I don't have a dog in this fighht - but I would point out that the MAIN
purpose of this board is to be a DISCUSSION forum. Not a sales forum.

True, it is considered bad form to comment negatively in the
Wanted/For Sale section, but this ain't that.

For my own part, I am perfectly fine with Bassel being another guy
offering Taig compatable cue stuff, and doing it here.

However, some have criticied that he has never participated in any
kind of discussion.

It would seem that, if it is posted here, it is open for comments both good and bad.

At least he hasn't made 97 different post to sell 104 items

Dale
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Dale,
From where I sit, this IS a discussion, certainly not a fight.
And to be honest, sales are allowed in this section. I think most, including myself,
view that as a good thing. Bassil and anyone else for that matter, is allowed to sell
cue making machinery and supplies at will. That's not an issue for me.
Maybe I was out of line to ask. I just want to know how the device differs in function
from the bar clamp.
No biggie.
 
DavesCueRepair said:
Wow I can't believe you guys here on. All bassel is trying to do is OFFER THE PRODUCTS THAT SOME OF YOU CUE MAKERS ASK HIM TO BUILD. If you don't want to buy the products that's all cool. Keep using the old school ways if it works for you that's great. I am learning to build cues the old school ways. But it is nice to have the new ways to help too. IMO THANKS DAVE

PS as we all know Hightower makes great products as well as Unique and Todd. Bassel is trying to offer his own products as well.

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
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Hi Dave,
Your opinion is certainly welcome. That's what the sharing of information on a forum
is all about. That's where the innovation comes into play.
To be clear, I've never asked Bassil to make me a single thing.
I own a weld & machine shop and if I want something built, I'll build it.
As far as innovative, I see nothing revolutionary in Bassil's fixture that isn't already
present in the bar clamp.

Years ago I came-up with a little device that makes even the bar clamp obsolete.
It's so simple that it qualifies as 'trick'.
My default thread is the 3/8x10 though this principle will work with other threads as well.
With a blank shaft chucked in my lathe, the first steps are to face, cntr-drill, drill &
tap the threads.
Next, the tenon is cut for the rings and I proceed to epoxy the rings in place.
The device I've fabricated is nothing more than a 3/8x10 'bolt' that I screw into my
newly threaded hole with a flat washer btwn the bolt head and the installed rings.
The rings are held in place under slight pressure until the epoxy cures.
Viola, no more bar clamp.
The bottom ring needs to be approx. .005" longer than it needs to be so it's not sitting
flush with the end of the shaft. You want to clamp the rings without the end of the
shaft preventing that. Once the epoxy cures and you remove the bolt you'll face the end
of the shaft again anyway. Innovation doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Not even $20.

At the end of the day, it's your money and you can spend it anyway you want to.
I stated that I was a little 'old school' and that's because I still use big machine-tools and no CNC.
I also like to keep things simple. It suits my program better.

All The Best, KJ
 
I've made delrin pieces that are threaded, and then install the rings then screw the delrin piece on to the joint pin(I install my pins before finish size, when slightly over finish size). It compresses everything based on the joint pin. Then I set it aside and do another, no machinery tied up.When dried, I remove the delrin, and face the joint. Costs about $3 for the delrin and time combined.
Just the way I do it. Works for butt sleeves also.
Dave
 
I'm older school.
I don't use clamps.
I thread all collars and buttplates ( even bones ).
I thread the phenolic liner on buttplate bones if the marrow is too big .
Then I thread the phenolic liner .
I like the threaded collars and buttplate to press square and tight on the rings/faces.

But, that jig looks great for press-fitters.
 
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I like the look of that butt-ring, blends well on that cue.
Are we going to get to see more of your new lathe?
I know you want to. You could have posed that pic anywhere. :smile:
 
KJ Cues said:
I like the look of that butt-ring, blends well on that cue.
Are we going to get to see more of your new lathe?
I know you want to. You could have posed that pic anywhere. :smile:
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Thanks KJ.
The Clausing 5310 is ugly. Oh, it's ugly.
But, the boy was made for cuemakers in mind.
Has a lever clutch. Easy disconnect of the spindle, stop the chuck by hand with ease , get working .
The tailstock is a beast ( MT3 ). The saddle moves like a ballerina.
Changing belts is a breeze.
1950's American steel. The machine just amazes me being that old.
I'm looking for another one.

Sorry for the OT Bassel.
 
JoeyInCali said:
I'm older school.
I don't use clamps.
I thread all collars and buttplates ( even bones ).
I thread the phenolic liner on buttplate bones if the marrow is too big .
Then I thread the phenolic liner .
I like the threaded collars and buttplate to press square and tight on the rings/faces.

But, that jig looks great for press-fitters.
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That looks awesome Joey! I'm looking forward to playing with that cue.
 
With no support on the dove tail will it bow when it is tightened? seems to me it could use some support.
 
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