I don't get how he trim it with a penknife?

x3dnd3x said:
Sad to say, mine's just a DIY one with a drill. I'm still saving money for a Chris Hightower lathe. Still surviving on pocket money. :(
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That also contributes,
Your drill probably doesn't have enough power to use a knife to cut the tip.
What are you holding the shaft with?
A picture will help
 
Picture would be ok. Be nice to see what you are using for a steady rest to hold the shaft.

There have been people that are using a Home Made and have fashioned a decent tool rest, to rest your knife or blade on.

I believe that you can purchase one as well but they are easy enuff to make with a light piece of angle iron or even aluminum.

Darcy is pretty good with this stuff, (Mecahnical Contractor), so he could give you a couple of ideas, if you were to post a picture.
 
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Trim down to +1/4MM of the ferrule.
Then blade it flush.

Actually, you can also use a fresh sharpened high carbon steel parting tool to get close to the ferrule then blade the rest.
DZ was the first one I've seen to use parting tool to trim the sides of tips.
 
Mr. Bloodworth taught me this exact same way to trim tips. It was at the SBE bout 20 years ago and after he showed me on my cue, he said "here....try it out on this one" so I trimmed it up, shaped the tip and handed it to him.....he then handed it to BUDDY HALL!!!.....My first time trimming a tip with a razor blade was on Buddy's tip!!! can you imagine! I about passed out.

Machinists will have a cow watching someone work this way, but tip work is measured in thousandths not 100thousandths! not to mention....I have a precision lathe in my garage and I still cut tips with a razor knife.....

thanks Leonard!


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Hahaha, great story Gerry. Buddy Hall's cue. That would have floored ya hey.

That is something to remember.

That is why it was so funny to read a few of these Debbie Downer posts, where they actually knew about zero of what they were posting.

There are tons of install videos on UTube. Most of the basic techniques are the same but each one has a little quirk of their own in which to achieve it.

The one where the girl in the billiard shop does well installing a tip by hand. That is until she turns on the bench grinder to trim the tip even with the ferrule.

Now that one would make anyone pucker up and have a Cow.

This is also a great reason to why cue repair questions should be, for the most part, posted in the Ask the Cue Maker Forum. This Forum is there for pretty much this reason.

Now, there are a lot of very knowledgeable people on the Main forum without lathes that can help with many cue questions, they have the years of experience.

Its just the few that posted junk in this thread that proves the point of where cue questions should be asked.
 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYARSoHlGFA

Here is the video of a Bob Dzuricky tip install using a parting blade to cut the tip.

I advocated not going from the left to right but you can see how fine a cut that Bob does
with the parting blade going both ways.

Bob is also a Master Machinist, his equipment is top notch and is dialed in perfect.

I am going to try a parting blade in the near future myself.

In this video, you can hear Bob explain the the white material coming off the ferrule is not ferrule material, but excess glue.
 
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sorry i stand corrected

but fwiw i said the cutting tool doing 1000 tips before being replaced, not sharpened (implying numerous sharpenings until tool is toast)
 
You are correct about that part.

You can touch up the small HSS 1/4" bits quite easily with a bit of practice.

Carbide bits, you would have to have a Diamond stone or pay someone to do it for you.
 
New layered tips aren't too bad on the coated carbide tooling I use, but elk masters eat up everything!
 
And Darcy is a good guy. He doesn't make UTube vids for the good of his own health.

Maybe Bava and a couple others could just say, "Sorry about that Darcy".

Like I mentioned, on UTube you will see a ton of install videos. Everyone has a couple of different techniques that they feel more comfortable with.

They all work and pretty much, none are wrong. Well, except for the one that the person uses a Bench Grinder to grind the tip.

That one is just so wrong. and at the end, uses a Brillo pad on the shaft. That isn't the coolest thing that you need on a shaft either.

Brillo pads scrub dishes, not shafts. Its actually worse than using sand paper constantly on a shaft.

I did one guys shaft for him and when it was finally clean, I could see a very clear and distinct hour glass figure under the ferrule. I asked him later when he got his cue back, what do you use on your shaft.

He said, those wire pads.
 
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Blue Hog ridr said:
You are correct about that part.

You can touch up the small HSS 1/4" bits quite easily with a bit of practice.

Carbide bits, you would have to have a Diamond stone or pay someone to do it for you.
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To grind a carbide bit you just need a green wheel. Grind away the soft steel with a regular wheel and use the green wheel for just the carbide.

They don't cost much at all and you just use it like a regular grinding wheel.


http://www.use-enco.com/1/1/62939-1...e-bench-pedestal-grinding-wheel-337-7370.html
 
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Thanks, I appreciate it. I thought that I read somewhere down the line that you would use a diamond wheel.

I actually bought a set up with two stones just for sharpening. They seem to work well for the HHS tools. Now that I have a fairly good supply of carbide tools, I was considering a wheel to sharpen them.

Now I know. Always can learn something new everyday.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
And Darcy is a good guy. He doesn't make UTube vids for the good of his own health.

Maybe Bava and a couple others could just say, "Sorry about that Darcy".

Like I mentioned, on UTube you will see a ton of install videos. Everyone has a couple of different techniques that they feel more comfortable with.

They all work and pretty much, none are wrong. Well, except for the one that the person uses a Bench Grinder to grind the tip.

That one is just so wrong. and at the end, uses a Brillo pad on the shaft. That isn't the coolest thing that you need on a shaft either.

Brillo pads scrub dishes, not shafts. Its actually worse than using sand paper constantly on a shaft.

I did one guys shaft for him and when it was finally clean, I could see a very clear and distinct hour glass figure under the ferrule. I asked him later when he got his cue back, what do you use on your shaft.

He said, those wire pads.
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Honestly, I enjoy watching Darcy's videos. The downside is that he only uploads a few of it. And to admit, I watch his video once at least everyday. I kinda like the way he trims it with a penknife. Haha.

And probably he's younger that's why I wouldn't find his video boring as he keeps talking. Another one I enjoy watching is Manning Cues.
 
What other videos would be interesting to watch?
I don't know how to edit, so my videos are real time :)
 
cuejo said:
What other videos would be interesting to watch?
I don't know how to edit, so my videos are real time :)
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Erm if its okay, like some cue fixing and etc.

You can draw a cue ball damn well I would say.
 
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