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Tell me about it....Jim Kelly and his 4 in a row SB appearances ended my NFL gambling career! That's when I figured out the game was fixed o_Oand I won't put another dime on it. 😶‍🌫️

It's all the same for me cored or not cored. I build every cue with a 12-12-5 = 29 Everything is assembled dry, cut on taper and left to hang oversized until I grab a few and finish them out.

Nice but.........at a hundred a whack for multiples it would be easier for me to just move the tail over.

If Chris doesn't have one, you'll have to make one.

Yes and no...No and yes There are reasons to core and reasons not to core. Natural weight is one reason not to core, but might be a reason to core. It can all be so confusing at times. One thing I will say about coring....if a properly administered core is properly glued into the the host wood...

Very cool! "Sentimental" means you are getting a lot older. ;)

Talk about the "STONE AGES" HAHAHA! That lathe needs a new home...looks severely neglected.

Isn't that the truth plus one! Have had this exact discussion several times over the course. You just don't know how the tree that any said given piece of wood comes from has grown during the course of it's growing life. Did it grow on the side of a hill? Did it grow with another tree leaning...

Ripleys believe it or not............I know a guy that experimented and turned that style of wood shaft down to finished size the day he received the very large oversized blanks. Last I know he was still playing with it and claims it's still straight as the day it came off the lathe. Now...this...

You know it's not about being the best or even being better than anyone else. It really just boils down to being able to use your brain and figure things out. I never had turned on any type of metal lathe or milling machine or knew the first thing about G-code or CNC. These are all things I...

Made many but don't do them much anymore. People don't wanna pay what they're worth for me to do them.

I have no choice with my antique setup. I use the same lathe for tapering my butts and my shafts. One on a taper bar and one by offset. Just never got around too doing them both on a bar which I should because honestly that's the best way to get it done.

I've always done it the old fashion way. Get it close and then cut an 18 inch piece of maple on a straight cylinder cut...measure both ends and adjust from there. Just make sure you mark on of the ends of the round tho so you remember which way to make the adjustment. 😅 Some guys I know have...

One of my biggest peeves about USPS is THEY provide the triangle boxes and then after you gotten used to using them, they have now added a surcharge on anything "over" 30 Inch long. SO....as long as the item being shipped will fit in a 29.5 long cut down round tube that slides inside a 29 and...

I forgot to mention I only pre taper the fore and handle before assembly of the two. On the back sleeve, I've always just kept it in cylinder form until it has been installed on the back side for full length tapering. However, I can remove it at any given point thru the tapering process...

No problem... Here's all you have to do. Take a piece of maple the length of your butt. Let's say you want your butt to be 29 long at finished size. Cut it at your finished taper. Let's use .400 diff as a number. 850-1250 After you have it tapered to finish size. Mark it at the length of...

Never understood the brass thing! Maybe because the balls are smaller and lighter, the tips are usually between 11 and 12mm it doesn't effect as much? I guess if installed correctly you'd never have to change it out for the life of your shaft? So many questions....so few answers. :unsure:

If the shaft isn't straight there is basically no way you'll end up without a wobble. Get yourself a longer length of delrin and make some bushings with different sized diameters inside to fit different sized shafts. Been using a set of these for almost 30 yrs and they work fine. This is of...

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And dang....for all these years I've been busting ass just for the love of it! o_O Before modern plastics evolved, it's pretty common knowledge that one of the main reasons ivory was used at the business end of the shaft was because of it resistance to staining and holding chalk dust. (with...