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You quoted me, rather than the people who started the _economic_ discussion? My effort is simply to define economic terms that were being used. smt

What - high end trades-people/construction workers shouldn't make a living?

BBC archives do have some great stuff! Hope they never give up and let the website disappear. I would not doubt that BBC was using shapers; which were in wide use by the mid-1870's. OTOH, bandsaws were too, not too much later, when it was finally figured out how to make durable bandsaw blades...

What an elegant design! Are you willing to talk about the snakewood? Is it glued up or one solid chuck? Any precautions? Thank you. smt

It is a common dozuki though it looks better quality than we see on this side of the pond most places today I worked with a couple Koreans sometimes on jobs in DC. They could do anything with various oriental handsaws, including curves. OTOH, so could western carpenters back in the day when...

Per my original post If you have a router, and can make a snug fitting hole in a substantial block of scrap or stacked plywood, possibly with a split in the block for clamping; it could be used with the router to make, or to finish cut your male taper. In order to make it so it does not need...

That was the first thing i noticed, too. But figured it is mostly cosmetic, and that he might be going to put a dowel in the center. Ideally for structural joint, it should be 12:1. 15:1 for airplane spars. Probably strong enough for general cosmetic use around 7 or 8:1. Shorter if dowel...

You made me do it! :) Here's the BBC guy cutting FS joints with an oriental handsaw, "back in the day" (1920's and before). Well, you can get one that is quite close by choosing a good blade, and maybe tuning it. AFAIK, all FS makers including myself use a bandsaw for the prongs. BBC cues...

The fundamental role of capitalism is to allow (promote) competition. Generally and very simplistically, capitalist enterprises compete by offering some matrix of price, quality, and predictable delivery/availability. Various combinations can be more profitable at different times in different...

Brain fart on my part. Of course you are correct. The most you can fit through some (& by no means all) 5c collets is about 1-1/32" Some makers 1" versions will not actually pass 1" the whole way through, but most should. The index itself with drawbar removed will just pass 1-1/4" after the...

Are you saying you only have a small bandsaw for making cuts? It looks like the outside angle cut is at the thick part of the butt? Do you have boring capability? One way to index it would be to make a small but substantial wooden block with parallel sides, and bore it to fit the "other" end...

You are correct & I was probably a little thin-skinned. For those that have not seen the back story or think it is about "haters" here is a sequence which if not directly implicated, has some relevance. A post was made on ask the cuemaker about "The perfect cue building lathe" with a somewhat...

Thank you. :) A picture really is worth quite a lot of words. The pix you posted seem to clearly show that the unrestricted through-the-spindle capacity is not what you state. So the best resolution is to pull the outboard chuck & collet tube assembly, and take some clear photos with a...

As i mentioned, that is absolutely correct for shafts. AFA butts: Have you done so? What actuates the collet in the nose? Is it a nylon 5c collet (commonly available) or is it something else, and again, if something else, what closes it? All of the parts you show in photos including the (old...

Dymondwood has been missed in a number of industries, sort of a wonder there have not been replacements since the original Rutland Plywood facility burned to the ground in 2014. It almost suggests there was not a lot of profit in it, or they would have been back? Webb seems to be a reasonable...

Some of Earls cues looked like they were wrapped with tennis racquet grip material?

Couple things: "really old" wood that has been exposed to regular seasonal changes dries and the resins dry, evaporate, and polymerize. The wood gets stiffer, lighter, and a little bit weaker. Basically what people try to achieve in a few weeks by torrefication. 2.) wood shrinkage over time is...

Not to keep beating on this, but since my ski instructor classes were canceled today due to lack of snow/soggy conditions making me a little cranky :) No seriously, since i often suggest Hardinge second ops as cheap building block platforms, it is important to me to be clear about some of the...

Out of curiosity, does anyone else base "smell" as a significant factor in ID'ing some woods? Keep seeing cues in photos here & there and elsewhere that are listed as Cocobola that look more like padauk, cabreuva, or even cumaru, or one of many "no-name" tropical hardwoods. To me, African...

Oh, I'm aware of that. But Earl also always had a side to him of the "spiritual" or "rigorousness" of pool. He has blathered about the "beauty" of the game. Or a "Beautiful game played by ugly people" He gets into a mode when the other guy has better luck than him; or especially when Earl is...