Recent content by CrsSim

Thanks to everyone for the help. Going through Tiger should have been my first move but it just seemed way to easy :) I guess anymore, if I can't find something on-line, i figure it's going to be hard to get at all. Thanks again, -Chris

I just saw a stack leather wrap in person for the first time the other day and was impressed. I'd like to try one on a cue but I'd like to put it on the cue myself. However, I'm having trouble finding a place that sells the stack leather material. Does anyone know where to buy the stuff? I...

i sell both the williards and the cube as well as the brad and ultimate. the cube is horrible. it wears out way to quickly and doesn't do a great job even new. i use the brad when i'm working on the lathe sometimes but for the most part use sand paper. if you're looking for a shaper to...

Chris Hightower had a section in his book on removing old finish with a razor blade. It's a great book to have.

i had heard it started when someone saw balabushka soaking tips in machine oil (which can be a milky white color) and figured that it was milk so they started soaking their tips in milk and i became a bit of a myth. who knows how true that is. i've soaked tips in rubbing alcohol and then...

at my shop we've been useing 3M brand sand paper from 220 grit up to 2000 grit. the colors of the sand papers are either a dark blue, black or grey. the finer grit papers tend to be grey while the corser tend to be black or dark blue. anywho, it seems to me that the 600 (grey) is much finer...

i work in a retail store, and our brunswick rep was in talking about how the cues for the centenial package are made by joss. he went on to give us his sales pitch on them and said that the shafts are cut and then left outside to warp and then cut again and so on and so forth until the warp...

that's really good to know, because my playing cue is an omega which is one of the reasons i was interested in that tap size. but now i don't know where to get a pin for the joint protectors i'd like to make as i was going to pull one from a broken cuetec i have at the store.

I'm having trouble finding some of the more obscure tap sizes at local places and was wondering where the best place to buy is. Atlas has them for about $50 which seemed a little high, but maybe it's not. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks, -chris

I've brushed on dupont two part chromaclear auto finish with really good results with just a little wet sanding and some rubbing compound once it has dried. I work at a retail store so we really don't have the capacity for a spray booth. But with a foam brush and three layers of finish with...