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I have a guy that came by for me to look at his cue because it was making a pretty loud clack noise when hitting the ball. I inspected it pretty well and could not find anything loose in the ferrules or tip. I suggested that we try a new tip and as soon as i put any pressure to cut the tip off...

Yeah I know feeds and speeds are critical and are a lot easier with metals when you have a good starting point that you can find online. Even with that you can go through some bits. It cost me at least $100 to learn how to cut aluminum on my cnc before I realized that the material that I had was...

Thanks for the info. I have a cnc router parts pro series 4'x4' machine with a porter cable router that is using the precise bits collets. I have not measures runout but I am afraid that they will not be as good as I need so I may invest in a small spindle like the Wolfgang to mount off to the...

When cutting a pocket for an inlay on the cue do you typically: Have a fixture that shims up either the headstock or tailstock to level out the cue? Cut the pocket into an unleveled cue where the inlay will end up being thicker on one end than the other? If so I guess you will be cutting air on...

I picked one up years ago and it seems that when I was researching that Deno Andrews in Chicago was the guy

Unrelated but there is now knockoff energy chain on Amazon for about $10 for 3'.

I just wanted to take a moment to say if you are currently using or even thinking of using cnc tapering that you should look no further than Kelly's Cue Cut program. Well thought out program and awesome guy to deal with!

I have enough height on my router mount to be able to cut from the top but it is fixed and not movable like a z axis. My whole objective is to not have to adjust the router position between cutting tapers and ring slots and that is why I was planning on cutting them with a slot cutter. I have a...

If I use end mills I will have to rotate the router. I have slot cutters but 1/16 is the thinnest that I could find. Stratshutr, I do have a stepper on the head . I may have used the wrong terminology but my machine has the same spindle setup as one yours. You sent a pm with pics on your...

I am almost done putting together a multipurpose cnc-d taper machine with indexable head for tapering shafts and hopefully cutting slots in ring billets. The way that my router is mounted it is vertical on since I only have 2 axis (axes just doesn't look right :) my cutter can only cut along the...

sorry it has sold - just got a chance to mark it

---SOLD--- 3 pieces of ivory colored rod with grain 1-1.5" x 12.5" 1- 1.0" x 11.75" 1- .595" x 10" I purchased this from ebay from China and used a couple pieces of the small rod for some ferrules on my home house cues and it has seemed to hold up ok. $60 shipped to the US for the whole lot...

On the way - Thanks Randy. Gotta love the Amazon!

I have it pretty close by timing 60 rpm against my stopwatch. I wish I had a tach of some sort but I guess it is really not that critical as long as it is close. I ended up at 8000 steps per unit and with a 45k signal it capped me at 337.5 on velocity which seems to be accurate on the spindle...

That is similar to setup I have and maybe where I am confused is the gearing on the motor. I actually entered 8000 steps per unit to accommodate foe the 4:1 . So 2000 = 1 rev on the stepper but 8000= 1 rev on the headstock. Is this the correct method or should the gearing be compensated for in...

I have searched a lot through cnczone and mach forums and the only things that I could find were questions being asked by Royce from OB (R.I.P) but just the questions with no real answers. I am running LPT on this machine and after I posted I started thinking that the vel was limited by...

I am a little confused on setting up a stepper as a spindle. I have the thing running but as far a setting rpm and motor tuning. The manual states "Now move to Config>Motor Tuning for the “Spindle Axis.” The units for this will be one revolution. So the Steps per Unit are the number of...

Thanks Kelly. I do plan to buy your software and I though t I remember reading of seeing that it calculated from center which seems to make more sense to me being that you are making repetitive parts that should end up at same diameter. I have downloaded the evaluation copy but have not even...

Thanks for the replies. So you guys are zeroing to the outer edge of the work piece and then going in whatever cut depth (1/2 of) that you we'd when tapering. I kept thinking that you would start from dead center and work out to be able to end up with an exact diameter since the starting pieces...

I am just about done putting together a homemade cnc taper / point / ring billet cutter. I have been racking my brain around how to zero the cutter axis with different bits. I assume that I need zero to dead center at the cutting surface of the bit. I plan on using 6 wing for taper - vertical v...