Recent content by DeeDeeCues

He never claimed he wouldn't miss. He never claimed that there should have been huge runs. He simply commented on Grady calling them tight and compared that to recent trends. I have a feeling that Grady would be amazed at the pool being played today. I don't understand why pool players...

I'll tell you one thing... Super glue isn't holding a tip on stainless for very long.

Gotcha, we agree. It is durable, but that is all I appreciate about it for cues. Great for jigs and tooling.

Delrin? Does anybody use delrin for anything but repairing to original? Horrible looking and can't glue it. Maybe the worst material ever used in cue making.

I like mustard and I like peaches. I don't like mustard on my peaches. You did a fine job for a friend. I think the swirly plastic has little call on a cue, that with the rest of the cue makes no sense from any design standpoint. I would caution you to be weary of agreeing to a customer's...

Looks more like a Ballet-bushka.

Judging by the photos, you'll likely find that the pin is relatively centered to the face of the joint collar, but was installed off center to the butt of the cue. The maker appears to have sanded with the pin in a collet and tapered part of the joint collar. If your deal was 'good' enough...

You aren't turning off center. You are turning off axis slightly.

There is no way that offsetting the tailstock will send the cue off the lathe. It isn't wobbling, you are only changing the alignment of the centers to the bed. It's been done for a couple of hundred years even on metal.

Fully disagree. Ronnie O'Sullivan was averaging 14 seconds per shot in the recent match where he made two maximum breaks and five centuries. Pros don't need thirty seconds per shot on a pool table.

Once you figure out a center steady, buy a morse taper boring head. Drill undersized, then bore to final. Small tailstock alignment issues are rendered meaningless, and you don't need to attempt to drill/ream to final size.

30k on a 4 wing is obscenely high. I'm surprised you aren't burning the wood. Try 9k.

It's a question of whether the aggressive between the layers would break down during soaking...

I prefer leather, medium or hard.

Might help to be specific in your needs. As far as educating yourself, I'm sure there are other paths, but mine included a degree in mechanical engineering and fifteen years working at a company that designed and built extremely large and extremely precise machines. Suffice to say that it...