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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...

Personal playing cue? Bryan, did you ever hit a ball with this beauty? 😊 Looks brand spanking new off the lathe. Yea, I know we're not not supposed to be making comments to bump your ad. Hope I don't get it tossed in the can for you. 😇 GL with your offering.

Call me old fashion but I still do a lot of tapering by offsetting the tailstock even though I know it's not the best way to do it. But I have a work around for the inherent problems it will cause. You just figure some of these things out as you move along the journey. When off setting the...

White, black, orange, red, pink, yellow the truth of the matter is every so often someone will came along and tout a new this or that to be the best or "better" than what is has already been a staple in past. Around 30 years ago most everyone in my orbit laughed at me when I started putting...

Love em or hate em... For 25 years I've shipped cues world wide using USPS with not a single problem other than at times taking a little longer than it said it should. Never 1 surcharge...just pay and we deliver. UPS FedEx DHL I've had accounts with all 3 and have closed all 3 accounts because...

It can be done by using a fixture that sits on top of the lathe bed and not adjusting the tail. It just really depends on how often you may use something like that compared to the cost of having it built or your time and expense doing it yourself. It's all a learning curve and adjustments along...

Adding a sacrificial piece to the end of the butt and cutting the flies on a lathe or mill would produce a much more precise and cleaner end result. Lessons are just steps in the process that generally need to be taken to get a higher quality end result. I can't tell you how many times I've...

If points/flies are off you can put the butt piece/short splice between centers and put a witness mark around the the 2 ends of the flies (or the high/low fly if there are more than 2) Same with points if you are trying to adjust them. Then you can visually see how much adjustment needs to be...

Either moved the center the wrong direction or not far enough would be my guess. Cut it off and try again.

Perfectly? Like carbide mandrel perfect? Or close enough 95% of players/buyers really won't give a shit perfect?

Needless to say if you hate shipping your cue(s) you're going to have to find someone within driving distance. At $450 a shaft by a top notch shop like that is a steal. Throw another 150 ea on that if it were coming my way.

Pretty much trying to meet in the middle, I presume, and get something close. How many of those aftermarket shafts "match up" to the cue butts perfectly?