Recent content by Kim Bye

It's one of those jobs that more than likely will ramp up in complexity during the process and since everything is at final dimensions there's no margin of error. It's not an uncommon thing, but with multiple X factors and only one chance to get it right it's one of those jobs you rehearse in...

If you glue it as is and then screw the screw back in, there's a very good chance the wood split in the exact same place again. Drilling in and plugging is the best solition imo. But that obviously complicated things. You would need to recut the point slots.

Do you feel it's worth it would be my first question.

I'm not a big fan of wood buttcaps or joint collars and in this case it's not even a separate piece that can be changed when it cracks. I would not recommend you go forward with this design. You can certainly join two woods together, that's not the problem.

2" Exceed extender is available. Exceed just updated the design, they are now called EXC-2K. That's black in colour, you can also get them in red, blue, gunmetal and silver.

No.

Bore out, install a phenolic or Hydex 202 plug and tap it, easy peasy.

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...