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For cue making, heavy duty aluminum extrusion frame with profile rails should be more than fine. .002" accuracy is actually super-good as far as routers are concerned; that's C5 ballscrew accuracy, and that does NOT come cheap, especially at the lengths needed. .0004" would land you in C1...

If you use shellac, make sure it is dewaxed. Better to roll your own with shellac flakes cut with alcohol (Everclear as I 've heard works great for this as long as you don't drink it first.) Then you have your choice of amber, blond, or even close to clear. The other thing is, like most...

Well, since .ooo1% of pool players use CTE...:grin:

Using a Martingale system? Trade $50 cue, get $100 cue. Sell $100 cue, get $200 cue. 7 more deals and he'll have a $12,800 Szamboti!

You mean, paid eBay view count booster?

I don't know the seller, but some affordable cues here: http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=446774

Didn't hear about George, he made some nice machinery.... Whatever you get, profile rails and blocks are far superior to the SBR round rails/blocks by far! Laguna is making some smaller machines now. You can also check out TechnoCNC (formerly Techno-Isel), Vision, Velox...

Also pau ferro, which is not a true rosewood, but a cousin of the dalbergia family. The wood industry changes the name of woods to make them more saleable, i.e. jack up prices. Bolivian rosewood is the latest name... they jacked the price up about 4x what it was just 6-7 years ago.

Technically it is the "great circumference" of a sphere....

I'm more of the subtractive type - CNC milling and routing. The CAD side is not too hard. The printing side is straight forward, though there are so many different options in terms of media. The downside is the print times are death slow, and media is not cheap, so I don't know what kind of...

Likely, he did a search for "custom cue" on eBay, and set the price range to $0-$200. I guess you get what you pay for. That said, there are quite a few US companies that make cues in the under $200 range that would be great players. But with his aesthetic requirements and price point, he'd...

One in the classifieds real good price right now....

Buy a Schmelke sneaky for $140 and get it over with....

Just wondering if anyone has tried, maybe, coring the first few inches of a stock shaft, or using a lighter material (maybe wood) for ferrule material, maybe even fluting a ferrule, to decrease the amount of weight in the front thus deflection a "stock" solid shaft has, as opposed to maybe...

Kudos, and great quote. But to put things in perspective, this is a glorified action match between two pros, neither who put up a majority of the their side of the money. This is not the Olympics, not the Super Bowl, not the FIFA World Cup. These two will not be defined by this one match...

I've been to the Philippines a few times, and am of Filipino descent. I don't think people here realize how dirt-poor really is; in the Philippines, it's literal. Your salary quotes are spot-on. My aunt still lives in the same bamboo-and-straw house that my great-great grandparents lived in...

Believe it or not, there is a flat-earth-movement going on now... Kind of scary, actually. That said, while I do agree with you mostly on this, I don't see the harm in anyone learning something different. What's the big deal if it doesn't affect you or me? If it gets them to their next goal...

I have a crappy Sneaky Pete that I fart around with. No matter how flat I faced the ferrule and tip, the tip would eventually popped. Figured out the ferrule was some cheap soft material, along with the through-tenon of the shaft, so when I try to hit an extreme spin shot with some speed, the...

I think it's analysis, not criticism. Either of these guys (or any pro for that matter) would likely bury me alive. Doesn't mean I don't see what I see. You have one of the most knowledgeable one pocket players of all time in Frost, and one of the great pure shotmakers of this era in Orcollo...