Be very careful, it's a slippery slope to addiction.
Yeah I was going to build from something similar like that. I have the plans built for everything I need to mount a router for tapers and putting veneers in. I’m actually going to have a lot of the components 3D printed with this rigid material. My buddy just dumped around $25,000 for this 3D printer. Most of the tool chucks and mounts for tooling will be made via 3D printer. I really like to tinker with things and challenge myself. So I was looking at just buying a pre made cue lathe. But I’d rather trek down the lane of attempting at building my own. I’ve been using CAD for a lot of the design build portions of the lathe. But after seeing this one. I think I have and idea, I just need some good cheap T rails, headstock and tailstock.
Oh I’m already addicted. All my free time is spent designing tooling ideas on CAD lol. I’m lucky to have a buddy that purchased a big 3D printer so a lot of my tooling chucks are going to be made via that. I’m only really wanting to build a couple cues. I think it would be really cool to shoot with a cue that I built myself. Then if i do a good enough job, I might pass it down generations. Who knows, I might build this thing and completely suck at it. I have a machinist background and also do a lot of custom wood working at home. I’ll try to use that to my advantage.
I use SketchUp. I do design work for solar systems as a day job and that’s what was given to me to use. It’s pretty tricky at first but once you get the hang of all the commands it’s a decent CAD software. The perk of getting to use the software without having to pay for a subscription is a plus. Company pays for it lol.
