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It's not hard. Get on a table. Hit some shots, moving farther and farther to the edge of the cueball until you miscue. You've found the limit. It's not like you're going to fall off a tightrope and die! And if you're playing for stakes, you don't need to hit extreme English; and you'd...

The contact point is NOT on the center of the tip at the outer parts of the ball, so even if it appears you have moved the tip 2 tip widths in one direction, it's actually being contacted by closer to the "inside" edge of the tip.

I play medium and hard tips. I find when I miscue, it is more my error than because of tip hardness. When I played more, a long time ago, I actually preferred a smooth tip. I'd say most of the time when I miscue, it is because my stroke was not straight for whatever reason. There's an old...

Exactly... I've seen a lot of wood that's perfectly quartered, but has runoff....

If only for the fact that large billets are used for instrument building. I don't know how nuch cue makers are willing to pay. A 1.5" square x 30" billet is only .5bf. Like such narrow billets are drop offs from larger billets. At the low end, unsorted, about $15-20/bf. 5A grade instrument...

Having handled logs from felled trees in the past... Log brokers and dealers know they have something special just by looking at the outside of the log. Probably the most famous example would be "The Tree" mahogany...

Well, actually the veneer slicers pay the most for the best stuff because their yield is so high. The guitar guys get lucky sometimes... but then again we'd need a pretty large billet to make a jumbo archtop, but only thin stock to do a flat top acoustic (for the back and sides.) As to rarity...

I think one of your first projects should be a pair of saw horses; they come in handy as infeed/outfeed supports when cutting plywood and other long boards. Some tips for your table saw... Make a zero clearance insert. I use a high-density fiberboard such as Masonite (preferably smooth both...

Usually though with maple plywood, the maple is only a 1/32" or less veneer skin, with the inside plies usually made of poplar. Likely a better analogy would be maple steel rule die board, which is made up of layers of maple veneer of equal thickness. But even then, since the plies are...

Again I'd try luthier supplier like StewMac. Luthiers have been gluing plastic bindings on guitars for almost a century. Another idea is to tape the points and veneers to the forearm, then use water-thin CA and place drops right where the plastic and wood meet. The CA will wick into the...

Guitarmakers use a solvent based glue to install plastic bindings, I believe it actually "welds" the glue to the wood. Aside from that you could try using an endmill and cutting from the top down using the tip of the tool...

I've handled some redwood billets that were very dense, and has that greyish look to the wood without finish.

I believe that's some nicely figured California redwood... you can ship it to my address!

Slightly off there... The actual way to find the volume of glue, given the tolerance is even along the entire gluing surface (or at least averages to the specs), is to first find the volume of the cylinder consisting of core and glue, and subtracting the volume of the core. Volume = pi *...

This actually is more in tune (pun kind of intended) with solid body electric guitar construction. For example, with a Gibson Les Paul, if it were just solid mahogany and humbuckers were used, it could have a "muddy" sound. Though some may call it "warm" and "womanly." Gibson caps the...

I do lije HHG a lot and advicate it whenever possible, but for some projects it's all but impractical. And I'm not talking about that junk in the squeeze bottle. If tge area you're gluing is not warmed, as your parts, the HHG will skin over, and you'll have to wipe it all off and start over...

I don't know if "plate tuning" in bowed instruments is comparable to cue "tuning." With the bowed instrument, this constitutes adjusting the thickness of the recarve area of the plate, which is from the edge of the instrument to about an inch or so in. Enough wood is removed by the builder...

As a guy that builds acoustic guitars, I don't think the proper analogy is outer wood to core wood. The traditional theory is that the strings excite the soundboard, which is almost always a "softwood" (spruce, cedar, fir) because of their high strength-to-weight ratio. This is because only a...

Beautiful work! Love the points and ring inlays....

LOL... We replaced all 32 CRT monitors at the bowling alley with LED flat panel displays. We called a lot of scrap places to take the CRTs, but they only wanted the metal housings and the circuit boards. So I took sledgehammer to all the tubes. Great stress reliever, and better than bubble wrap!