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well BBC did fine without a taper bar. just some handsaws and planes. & i'm going to keep using the plywood base under my profile lathe for the taper bar. With a little help from the 1 ton planer table. :) smt

The waxed microlam plywood sub base base becomes your “taper bar”. it can either be split in the middle to straddle your pin/guide. Only one side (outboard side) is control. The other is clearance gap away and merely keeps the lathe from tipping. Althernately, a full solid sub base cn be used...

so does that mean you are likely or not to try the pin router suggestIon? Or do you have something else percolating in the ingenuation chamber? :) smt FWIW this is not joking, i’ve actually done it at times to create facets (rather than full/continuous rotation) albeit on one of my actual pin...

Aha, i see your difficulty... from the mfgr’s website: ”This is a Professional Cue Repair Lathe. In the hands of a qualified and experienced technician this lathe is capable of performing most the operations necessary to build a simple cue however, it will not easily cut a compound taper for...

It appears from your post that you & i would have very different esthetics afa table design. However, given the classic references: i am impressed with the Porter work you link, but not really with the trueness of their somewhat “mashed up” allusions to classic design names. Since you ask...

Watts drills i linked to above (old school company, they still don't have a website) will cut square holes straight into steel. no starter hole. but the corners are rounded. The other methods listed will make clean square holes in wood, and slater tools or pull broaches will do wood or metal...

Always use a good 4 or 5 point harness for safety. Your cue deserves no less.

What method/equipment are you using to taper? what don’t you like about it if anything? is there a defined shape (profile) you are trying to attain? Or are you just exploring limits “in case”?

Wow! Quite a set of tooling. Now who’s the maniac? :) Keying off the featherstrip seems brilliant. Can’t wait to see the next installment. thanks, smt

not trying to be smart or hijack. To answer your Q directly i don’t know if it is possible. However in the interest of addressing curiosity there is a castable product i used to use for other purposes that might have some chance of success if you are the kind of guy that likes expensive...

Not familiar cuemaker? Pix ofcues?

If that is true maybe covid related? i have not checked recently. But you can call direct. (Watts manufacturing) 760 Airbrake Avenue, P.O. Box 335 Wilmerding, PA , 15148-1014 Phone: 412-823-7877 I use Slater tools for hex & square cuts in metal trim rings but you have to drill a round hole...

Would think for finishing that incremental feed would be best. (Stop-start for each spray pass) i only french polish cues, not good to have continuous rotation at any speed for that except maybe quick detail joints/ends. However have plenty of spray experience & personally don’t care much for...

Modern sewing machine motors with speed control work well for a lot of fractional HP drives. i use the versions advertised as “3/4hp” though that may be optimistic, they do have good torque. Here’s on on my shaft profiler. https://forums.azbilliards.com/attachments/dsc_0006-jpg.501803/ smt

explained in the text: staved solid lumber (poplar)center core, thick poplar crossbands each side, parallel veneer on face over the crossbands (= 4 plies) and sometimes on the back (+ additional ply = 5 plies total. Read the description again - BBC did it for stability. To make It act like...

Ideally, frame construction will be the most stable (move the least differentially with seasons and stay flatter at the slate support surface) if the construction of the support elements is the same. If you ever addressed whether this is a 4 or 5 ply frame, sorry, I missed it? There are a...

probably can’reconstruct it but believe I followed google to the techtongda factory or one of the jobbers & back out to similar lathes with the reference to that manual. Either way, it is a MT5 socket spindle with flange mount. If yours is similar, the options are too. How hard is the spindle...

Apologies to all. i was responding to jtompilots suggestion of using a tapered -shim- so assumed (yeah that word) that cushions would be replaced anyway.

Are you trolling or do you have an actual need? Within any technical profession is anyone in the top 10% the best regardless any given day/project/patient/etc? If reading on this list compels you to believe rkc is the best you are a person that is easily fooled by noise. He is apparently good...

Is this your lathe? https://content.toolots.com/media/attachment/file/B/L/BL330E-1%20MANUAL.pdf That is curious and almost funny that the spindle ends in a bolt on flange. That said, I can’t see any reason to not use it. You can modify any plain back chuck to fit, or an appropriate side A-...