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Kerk No ball bearings in there. Just delrin or something like that. That's the great part about them and at the same time, it's one of their weaknesses. Much less efficient than ballscrews, but way less expensive. Perfect for our applications in most cases.

align rite Steve, If Travis's method of cogging doesn't work. Try going directly to Kerk. I have them on my old Blud machine and when I had to replace one of them, I ended up sending the old nut to them and they figured out which one I needed. I had a double start which had me totaly...

cnc I negotiating on one of these. Will make squaring stock much easier:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU5nogTtNdc&feature=related Haas has a g code that wraps around a cylinder. In most businesses, there are specialist. Cuemakers have to do it all.

water born finishs I routinely troll the auto finishing forums. Those guys shoot way more finish than we ever will. He's a quote from one I just picked up. it's part of my reason for not liking epoxy based finishes...

And this is why cuemaking is so damn addictive. You never really have the final answer.

Ruppert, I think you may have miss understood what I meant by checking with the old guys. I meant the guys who have been doing repairs for a long time. This was not meant to pick on any method or technique. Hell the real old guys used french polish and I've heard stories of Tad shooting the...

water finish Fair enough! Positive it is.

Ok, so now I will quote you. I never mentioned your name or quoted your post. You just assumed I was talking about you. Don't assume to read my mind. You come to this forum, spewing BS and gathering a following of minions who wait with baded breath for you next sermon from the lathe. When...

A couple of things you pointed out caught my attention. The end results matters. Talk to the old time repair men, ask what they think about some of the mentioned finishes. Many years to come. That's the point, flawed techniques will not serve the purpose for many years to come. I've been...

Actually I do care about how other cuemakers build their cues. I care because bad cues reflect badly on cuemakers as a whole. Why buy a custom piece of shit, when you can buy an average production cue all day long. Use to be custom meant something. Now it means, I've read a book, viewed a...

coring dowels Might want to rethink that statement. The deepest point of the point channel is where the points are closest. Most epoxy is made to bond items not to make structural components. I'm not saying it's not strong enough, but it's not super strong. I'd also be interested in the...

Just my 2 cents. A few Newtonian observations. The deeper you cut, no matter what the tool, the more push off you will have. A 30 inch dowel will push off more than a 15 inch dowel. Make one cut, then do the pencil mark spiral down the core, then do another cut with out changing settings...

Cue cost Pool cues are not a commodity. They can not be priced like a barrel of oil or a oz of gold. Comparing them to something a tradesman repairs is not even close. The guy who installs the door will never get the price of the artisan who created the door. Unfortuneately we are in a...

Sneaky I don't think there is a consensus on any cue term.

Pool cue There's nothing like the smell of of a new machine in the morning. Help out the Georgia economy, get a new one.

Pool Cue shop Another dreamer bites the dust. Big difference between making a 500.00 cue and selling a 500.00 cue. Flashcut controller. People either love them or hate them. Nsk spindle is nice.

parabolic taper If I would have to use a manual taper bar, I would definitely use one like Canadian Cues. I would think it would be easier to tweak than a milled bar. Both cnc and taper bar can cut excellent shafts. No difference in the quality coming out of the machine. Once you have...

what Getting off track, but most metal taper bars or taper set ups are cut on cnc mills. It's a matter of how many arcs/lines you want to cut. Most cnc mills have minimum inputs of .0001. So if you wanted to, you can mill just about anything you can draw. But they are still lines and arcs...

parabolic taper Beat me to it. An the confusion continues. Darn you DPK.

Dunkel I think Steve has officailly become a cuemaker. He is turning down paying work to build cues. Good for you, Steve.