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The one on the left is very hard.

I've been buying AAA dowels locally with very little runout, no sugar marks, etc. I'm using those for cores. Don't care about the price ($15-$20 each) For shafts, I've bought mine from Chris. My only bad experience lately was an experiment using birch, which was very challenging and despite...

I figured as much, will do that, wasn't home to take them.

I recently purchased a box of random diameter and length rods from someone exiting the business. While the wood ones and phenolics are fairly easy to identify, I also have some very hard and smooth solid black and solid white 12" long rods from 1"-2" in diameter. No discernable patterns...

I'm typically making 30" finished lengths on butts and prefer a little extra material to face off. Also, I can chuck up the overhang when gluing up my butt which gives me a little more room to work around the threaded butt cap and joint sleeve to get them tight. Also keeps epoxy away from my...

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Carbon Fiber Revo splits in half from hitting a chair?? I don't think so. And, brand new Revo's are well under $600..

My local woodshop closed it's doors yesterday and my local woodcraft and rocklers don't carry much. Bellforest also has very little. I'm looking for a good source of dowels in maple or even better, hickory, in 1" x 36" size. If anyone has a good place to shop, I'd appreciate a PM. TIA.

I'm going to pick some up today. Thanks for the tip!

I'm the same. I'm not in business, don't have the experience to teach, and simply enjoy this as a hobby. With that said, I've spent nearly $10K on my new hobby in the short 18 months I've been pursuing this and can easily see a path towards another $10k+ if I decide to go to a higher level...

LOL .. and funny how Slim123 has somehow gone silent. Perhaps I should follow your advice and shut off the private conversation option as well.

I've been working on cues most all day today, and ironically I've threaded six butts and joints today along with five conversions from linen to leather wraps.

John - is the hickory you've been able to get at hardwood stores typically dry, or do you need to cut it down in stages and follow the typical process of turn and wait?

What part of this don't you understand? Run the die all the way down and then turn the end round. Simple!

Look closely at post #11, it shows you all you need to know. You don't tap the tennon to accept a threaded joint sleeve.

Yes, I have a thread mill setup on my lathe. You could actually do it with a tap and die, it would just be a little more of a PITA

Backpack straps sound like a good idea. I've been trying to figure out a more comfortable (and safe) way to transport my 4x8 on my motorcycle.

I have the current generation Black Jacoby, it is my 2nd favorite CF shaft of the ones I own or have owned. In order of preference, they are: Mezz Ignite Jacoby Black Predator Revo (2) Jacoby 2nd Generation (sold) Meucci CF Pro McDermott Defy (sold) I've played some with the Cynergy shaft as...

Per the forum rules, I am not a professional cue maker so I'll let someone who is answer the question, should they choose to do so. I know how I do it, it's pretty simple.

If so, that could have been prevented by not taking the threads all the way to the end and ending in a round tenon instead of threads.