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Good job. Remember that once you put an epoxy basecoat on that phenolic, the weave will be almost invisible and it will turn deep black.

OXA size would fit I guess, I have used that myself on a Cuesmith deluxe. I would reach out to Jim first and ask before purchasing tough.

No idea other than I guess their die is 13.5mm. It's annoying, I had to make a dedicated tip centering jig for all the Tiger tips. They sure have a lot of them now, just released a new Jayson shaw edition tip.

You can get 2 K UV clear as well and while not ideal, you can apply it with a foam brush. You will obviously have some streaks and bubbles, but if you do enough coats, you should be able to wet sand down to a nice surface for buffing. Finishing in general is difficult and sensitive to humidity...

The rest of the ring is most likely phenolic.

Remember that Elforyn is available in several different varieties: - Super Tusk, that's the one wich is the best Ivory imotation in terms of pattern and colour - Ivory grained, more pattern than Super Tusk, this was their previous "looks like ivory" product And then you have regular Elforyn that...

I'm pretty sure it's Elforyn in Ivory colour.

Their Radial pins are metric, so a 8mm minor instead of 5/16"

A pretty cool website about Westinghouse: Westinghouse Micarta

Ok, so whomever did this, didn't do good prep and he also removed the tip plate. You can even see some glue starvation there, so either he didn't use enough glue or possibly the ferrule was poorly faced off. Any competent cue maker can fix this for you and it will be as good as new.

It's there to spread the impact forces. It's a pretty common design, Predator aren't the only ones using that design. OB shafts used a similar pad and many CF shafts with very short ferrules uses a pad to spread the load and also dampen vibrations.

"The tip technology with the phenolic tip and carbon fiber plate, provides maximum energy transfer for a wood shaft"

That why a picture would be so helpful.. It's hard to diagnose problems without actually seeing what's going on, and even then, sometimes the only solution is to have the thing in your hand. It's not that I'm grumpy just because I'm old (although it might be a component, just turned 50..) It's...

Dude. Do you really think Predator is some high tech NASA stuff? Anyone who do this for a living has seen all of these shafts, taken them a part and repaired them and know how they are constructed. You don't have to be a Predator tech. Your answer gives me the impression you have read their...

Just post a picture. Samsara tips can pop off if they aren't prepped right. You are using very confusing language, that doesn't help. Predator shafts isn't more difficult to work on than any other brands, granted you know what you are doing.

If you are talking about product photos, they often use filters to reduce glare (pool cues are difficult to photograph) Usually the finish is much shinier irl than in the photo's Mr. Astle makes an excellent product, finishing included, so it's a great deep gloss finish you see in the photos and...

Based on similar style Motors, I'd say it's the speed controller that's bad. These generally seems to be incredibly flimsily made.

Live threading on the lathe.

A lot of replies about different tips, but I see very few that adresses the fundamental issue. Generally a jump tip benefits from being very hard, while a break tip is also much harder than a playing tip, you do want a certain amount of control, so these things will always be at odds with each...

1.240" / 31.5mm that seems to be what most players like these days. If you want 1.250" I'll do that too. I don't make skinnier cues that 1.240" though.