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So it's obvious you need to spend more time on the felt to pot balls. Practicing for only a few months will make very few humans play as well as svb. I used to think it was all "hype" also but soon discovered it was just another option for a tool used in the trade.

Just curious....why would need a die to produce these threads? I know the obvious reason, however, these male threaded items are generally already produced in products used for building cues.

A few different reasons I would believe..... Cost being one....It's a tool that some just can not afford to purchase yet. 300 dollars would purchase a lot of wood for someone just starting out. The builder has not yet decided on "their" pin.....lots of options in the pin dept. The mandrel is...

The only one I've found is a G10 pin acting like a piece of sandpaper. Any metal pin "properly polished", as long as it is started correctly into the shaft cavity, will generally just burnish the inside hole of a maple shaft and will not wear the wood fibers away making for a future sloppy fit...

My biggest complaint with CF is finding a place that will make one to my spec and not theirs. Most are entirely to stiff imo. Thinner wall with a different taper than most have would be a plus. The problem is keeping them straight out of the oven and off the mandrel.

This is common across the board with pretty much all items that are being sold. Especially when it comes to high end and hard to get supply chains.

To make it easier for the ones that preferred to pick out and focus on a sentence or two in my original post. I went back and did an edit on the post so it would be easier for a brain to digest. Enjoy your cues, enjoy the game and have a wonderful day.

Thanks Ralf. I know it's hard for some to understand the formula I use for rare exotic wood replacement when they are on a beer budget with champagne taste. I have enough DI burl left for 1-2 projects from a whole burl I found years ago. One of the most expensive purchases for wood I made at...

Nope....you don't have to pay for anything. I paid for the first piece out of my original start up funds. As a business, if I continue to buy wood without the customer paying to replace it, how would you expect that business to stay in business? As I mentioned, it is simply the formula I use...

Curly PI....those were the days! :)

I went thru the process to acquire the import permits. Time consuming and of course there's an additional cost. You basically give the government the right to show up at your place and confiscate anything they feel necessary to convict you if they feel there's any funny business going on. You...

I have many times. I flew to CA and met with man who had containers full of HRB. Ebony....I only want solid black because that's what my top customers want me to sell them. Good wood is getting harder to locate and purchase.

No one said the wood was a major cost. However you can have all the knowledge and tools in the world. No wood.....no cue.

No worries. After your first response to the OP tells me you would never be one of my customers anyway.

I guess I could have simply said if I pay 300 for a piece of wood my upcharge would be 900. Most of these woods I am referring to can not be replaced today. If by chance you do find a replacement you'll pay thru the nose. I'm not talking about a piece of PH or BE maple. Example... 1.5x18...

Your rebuttal is a mere assumption on your part. My customer is purchasing one cue, not 3 pieces of wood. So now you are calling my customers that understand this reasoning an idiot?

So you buy a gimmick and pawn them off on your customers? Which is it? A viable product? Or a gimmick?

Dalbergia woods are the most common for upcharges. Ask someone to build you a Brazilian tulipwood forearm and back sleeve (a nice strawberry colored one 😉)! Last ones I looked at were going to cost me $300 a stick. That means I would need to upcharge $900 for just the wood before I even start...

Floating your joint pin in a puddle of epoxy is one of the dumbest things you've come up with yet. Where do you indicate off this floated pin technology? Off the end of the bullnose I suspect? Think about it for just one short 15 seconds of your life. If you are indicated off the...

I would never drill a final hole to fit anything I wanted to be close to finished size. But that's just me. Anything I wanted close to precise is going to be bored out.