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We all know that certain woods could cause allergic reactions - like cocobolo for instance. Now reading the "safety" papers on my new planer/thicknesser I can read ; "Risk of injury by inhaling wood dust: Dust of certain timber (e.g oak, beech,ash) can cause cancer when inhaled. Use a suitable...

I'm considering one of these machines for my general woodwork - not primarily for Q work. But I guess it would be nice to make nice reference planes for bandsaw work while ripping boards. Question is : does any one of you use these and can you for instance use the thickness mode to make your...

Long time since I have had the time to be up here, a little boy have sorted out my time where very few hours could be spent "back in the saddle". Was however back in the cue shop the other day and did some work and it got me turned "on" again - it's my time off and is for sure a recharge. Now...

Long time since I have been able to spend time up here, and even longer for pool cue work. A small baby boy have arranged for that :wink: Anyway,I accepted a job to install a new stacked leather wrap on a high end ebony/ivory jacoby cue during Christmas. I got my hands dirty this week and was...

I have a customer which split his OB Break shaft by bending the cue in the "all so cool banana" shape when braking. Never understood the point by doing just that but some must think it helps.....:shrug: Anyway - he bought a new shaft and gave me the old one to play with and see if I could fix...

I'll start : I'm close to Chris H on this - finnish... I simply can't stand making extra shafts for customers! The ring work, turning and all the rest is nice, interesting but geeezes sealing the rings with CA and putting CA finnish on - give me a break.... Don't get me started on putting...

I have a customer which fell in love in a Zebrano pice I had lying and I'm working on a cue for him now. I core it with maple and all the rest and now I'm heading up to make inlays and the bells and whistles. Anyway - as you know the wood has fairly open pores and I was just wondering if some...

I have a customer which would not change to any thing else than his current Pred Z2. Since I'm not one of the chosen one to deal this brand and the one which is - is not carrying something like a blank - could some of my friends up here help me out with 2 blanks ? I'm building a cue and I...

When I did my research for my personal machine I read up on many machines and I remember some green looking high end gantry type machines. Since this is many years back I can't find my links so I was wondering if some one knows any machines which they could be recommend? I have looked at...

I have been making some dust - again due to this Philippine cue I have been working on now for a long time. First it was the joint which dissolved and I repaired - now the cue has started to make a buzz in the A joint. The owner is very fond of this cue - it plays after his liking and I made...

I have no relation ship to Meucci and I'm not going to discuss what I think about their current products - but I have a customer asking if I can get him this shaft. Asking Mr.Google gives me just the "big words" but could some one tell me - is this still just flat laminated veneer shafts as...

My seller refused to answer on email if the epoxy is "ok" if the pumps are mounted on the cans/containers and left there. I guess many of you have experience with this - first hand - any recommendations would be highly appreciated. For small work I'm still using Tiger Products bottles since I'm...

Here is one for those which thinks pantograph is to modern, CNC is the devil - the cue should be hand made with a knife and plane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RJUcyvr_s&feature=related Impressive handwork and not using a lot of tools..... K

I´m building a ebony cue for a good friend and it has a cored forarm (purpleheart) with tenons of PH in each end. I want to make this as "pure" as possible and the idea is to thread the PH tenon and join the handle this way (with rings in between). Now, I'm not sure if this would cause any...

Not sure how good of a shaft this would be. Not sure if I gave it a couple of years - may be I could have cored it :D Was cutting down some stuff and kept some to babysit but it struck me how weird some of these trees could grow:smile: Have a good weekend folks. K

I feel I have many of my machines dust-proof but there is still some operations which I react to. Therefor -I bought a Trend Airshield-some-thing which was useless. Way to heavy and noisy. If you have the neck that Mike Tyson-you might find it ok... Now-I have considered the pro 3M setup...

Was considering to try a bevel cutter (60' version) in my CNC as a tool for tapering some of the species. I use KJs sawlade setup for some operations but the normal wood cutters I else use has only 2 cutting sides. I know about the wing cutters but was just considering the bevel as a potential...

Juat did 2 forarms and as usual I pushed a wet paper through the forarms hole before I incerted the dowel. On my second ebony forarm I used "well amount" of wather on the paper since the first was kind of damped paper. The second was whet. The glue did at this time settle so quick that I had...

I'm considering a 6 jaw chuck and was wondering if any one had a source to recommend which is reliable and good prices? Plenty one who sells these but if some one had good service and price from some one I would consider them. Need to be able to ship to Norway. Edit: Also, what is the...

Things whent terribly wrong for me during turning some brass. I had chucked up on a sollid 40mm rod of brass-held by the chucks jaws. The plan was to do some light cuts to trim it down to go through the headstock. Long story - short; I did not use my tailstock (with center drilled hole) and...