Recent content by Kim Bye

Depends on what you like. There's really no right answer to your question.

Here's some of the parting and parting and grooving tools I use

Parting tools with carbide inserts look fundamentally different, they are usually in a separate holder 19mm / 3/4" height is usually the smallest size and the parting insert thickness is usually about 2mm You can buy parting tool shank type tools as well, but they are often 1616 or 5/8" shank if...

Such a childish thing to do. Just admit that your game wasn't up to scratch that day.

If you have an accurate setup and know what you are doing, you can fairly easy change the threads in the inserts. The O.D is basically 14mm on the dot, so I use a set-tru ER40 chuck, so I can dial that in within .002mm Just did one now, so customers can use their Tiger cues with Triple 60 shafts.

You say "fairly straight" what does that really mean ? Am I right in thinking that you want to refinish the cue to sell it and that's why you want to know the value?

It wouldn't be a problem for most cue makers to make a maple shaft with a short, light weight ferrule and a Schon pilot and ringwork.

Just proves that marketing trumps quality...

The fact that cues from well known cue makers hold their value or go up isn't that crazy. As far as new stuff goes. Prices on machinery and raw materials have skyrocketed..8 years ago you could get a Grizzly 13x40 for a little over 4K, now they are over 7K. A Bison 6 jaw used to be around $1200...

Milling a wrap groove into a CF tube is very different from wood. First off all, I would need to know the thickness and construction of the tube. Milling almost a mm down can totally ruin the CF layup construction. As with any cue where people want's to do major changes. My advice is always to...

That sounds like a lot of marketing jargon.. I make CF shafts and I can tell you that there's no revolutionary way to make a CF shaft, sure you can have different tube thickness and diameter and different ferrule and shaft collar materials, but there's nothing magical out there. I have been...

Curve shot? do you mean massé shot? A Massé shot works best very stiff shaft and a larger tip diameter. So if you are playing with a 11.8mm shaft, massé isn't what it's made for. My question is why do you need to use massé shots all the time? Just work on your speed control, so you don't have to...

I see about as many CF shafts and wood shafts in my shop, so they are far from indestructible. If you go back and listen to the original promo video Predator made for the Revo line of shafts, Pia is basically just parroting those claims, so this is nothing more than marketing in a more personal...

They do have a new BJ3 now. It's different material and it's quite new, so even if I have sold some and installed a few, very little feedback on them as of now.

Taom stopped making the 2.0 break tip a few years ago, so you will have to check with stores and see if they have any left