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Bob Really nice Bob! Cool video as usual. It's good to see the new machine working well. I finally got around to installing a couple of clearpaths on one of mine. It's just a turning center, but they do work great. I'm still hoping to keep upgrading the other machines as well. Royce

Joey I was really talking about work coordinates, or work offsets. When you use a homing system on your machine, lots of options open up that let you do all kinds of things. When you "Home" your machine, you send it to a known and extremely consistent location. Home is usually Z up, X left...

Joey That's what offsets are for! Royce

I would put them 180° apart. Both at the edge of the wrap groove. This way you get to stagger the starting and ending points. Royce

Bob Call Jim. He may be able to fix you up. He's out of town through the end of the week, but you could still call him. Royce

Based on the question you're asking, I'd recommend that you look a little deeper into the construction methods before you buy any tools or jigs. Full splice construction isn't rocket science, but it is very specific. You will need simple but specific tools and techniques to do it well. In...

The only reliable way to have a long tool as is being described would be to build a special spindle mechanism to run it. First, you'd need at least 1/2 as much of the depth of cut in shank length. Meaning if you want a 14" depth of cut, I would want at least a 7" long shank. It would need to...

I do agree. Promotion cannot make a poor cue valuable. At least not for the long term. But, the best cue on the planet isn't worth anything if it's stuck in someone's closet and no one knows it even exists. It takes both parts. Royce

Well, I have to agree. You know, I know some cuemakers who do use the numbers of inlays, points, veneers etc to help them determine their asking price. I also know at least one who's pricing method is to build the cue, hold up and get a good look at it, and say "This cue's worth $$$$!" and...

Rob Well, I certainly don't think I've been nit picking anything. I'm just trying to help a couple of guys solve a problem. Now, from my perspective, JC understands what you're talking about, and has looked to see if that was his problem. He doesn't think so. He's already said that the pins...

Don't look now, but I don't think this thread is about "Inlays......What The Heck Are They?" any longer! Royce

Matt I understand what you're saying. I think the Blue Book was the first time I'd seen a rating system for cue values based on many factors, one of which was the number of inlays in the cue. In my opinion, cue valuation is very very subjective. In reality, pricing for cues is really no...

I look at it this way. Anything that is put into the cue during the construction of the actual cue itself, meaning spliced points, most veneers, most slotted or stitch type rings, are not inlays. Any solid piece that's put into a pocket or hole that's been cut into the assembled cue, is an...

Gideon Sorry I hadn't responded to this already. Most tips, at least the ones that I've measured, came out to a specific gravity of right around 1.0, give or take. Most maple is around .65 to .75, so the tip is heavier than maple. Most plastic ferrules are at least 1.25 with the majority...

I'm sure they are all made by CNC, so the gears and any conversions should really be a factor. I would think that the issue is the pitch diameter. When I look at his pins, they look to me like they are cut with a traditional 60° included angle tool that comes to the normal point. For pins like...

iusedtoberich I would tend to believe, based on my own personal experience, that if the shaft split that it most likely didn't have a carbon fiber pad between the tip and the shaft. Royce

Robin, I agree completely. I guess I was trying to that the risk without a carbon pad is that the shaft may split. Royce

It does look like LBM (melamine) and like all thermoset rods with a substrate, they can have some black or dark spots in the material. But that isn't the case here. What you see here is the result of using the dark colored wet/dry sand papers on an open pored ferrule. It most likely will clean...

We've experimented with it before. It does remove the weight of the ferrule, but it also loses some of the advantages of having a ferrule. The hit was always solid, but lacked the feel that we were after. We did use a carbon fiber pad, and it works great. The risk is that if the back side of...

Colin Absolutely! A little background. Our first shaft, the OB-1, was made with 6 pieces of flat laminated maple each turned round and then notched so that they would "nest" together kind of like a clover leaf. That made the blank from which we turned the shaft. One of the interesting things...