Search results

I tried to start a business making cues a while back. As it turned out, I had to move and had nowhere to work. I sold the equipment. I have one cue that never got finished. It was the fanciest cue I had made to date. It is still unfinished. It has no joint screw or shaft. I slapped some...

I was done with the construction of a butt but had to move. It is slightly out of round. (I thought I tracked the problem down but I was mistaken.) What would you charge to make it round and finish with a Z2 shaft? Remember, PM only. Also, I am in Columbus, Ohio now.

I have been having issues with shafts coming out egg shaped (noncircular cross section). Once upon a time, I did not have egg shaped shafts. I just discovered that my router has some play in it. Does this typically cause the issue I have with my shafts or am I in deeper doodoo than I thought...

I have a personal cue that I break with which has a phenolic ferrule/tip that recently developed a loud buzz in the shaft that is audible with the shaft removed and tapped in any location. The sound propagates through the entire shaft. When you tap the tip, it sounds the same as when you tap the...

Has anybody ever used dissolved ABS as an adhesive? I've been doing a bit of reading concerning stabilization and stumbled across this other application. It sounds like it could be useful.

Does anybody know anything about Polycryl wood stabilizer? I have a Woodcraft gift certificate and was wondering how applicable it was for punky wood.

Does anybody have any experience using Wood Juice on spalted wood? I have some insanely figured and colored oak that I discovered hiding in a piece of firewood. I cut several pieces out. I set them aside to dry, but many started to crack the next day. I managed to catch about 8 of them before...

I have seen other cue maker's (Schuler in particular) that use Delrin for butt plates and they have been at least satiny. What is the best way to get this? Sanding just seems to make it gray. Do I need to move up to micromesh? Alternatively, is there a way to reliably get finish, epoxy in...

I'm looking at stocking another single layer tip and possibly using them for my standard tip on my cues. What is the consensus on Triumph tips? I used them back in '94 or so, but don't really remember anything about them. How do they compare to Triangle and LePro tips? How well do they maintain...

For a new cuemaker, what's a reasonable price to charge for a cue? Any suggestions?

I just saw a gallery of cues. Could someone explain to me how a very plane maple cue with no inlays of any kind from Frank Coster could be valued higher than relatively fancy cues from Joss West and Richard Black when all are from the same time period?

Are there any cuemakers in the Hot Springs, AR area that would like to shoot sometime? I may be going there for work sometime.

Here's a peek at what I've been doing. I have a ways to go to impress anybody, but I'm reasonably pleased with my results. This was cue #2.

This is one of the cues I made.

Hey folks, I've ordered bumpers from 2 different suppliers. One was good quality rubber, but is really two short to offer much protection. The other was so aged/ozone cracked and hardened to be useless for anything other than a house cue. I have some samples coming from Budwig. Does anybody else...

For those of you who don't know, Ray Schuler cues made prior to his death in 2002 were signed 'by Ray Schuler'. There are several cues appear on ebay claiming to have been made by him in the 1990s but they bear the mark 'Ray Schuler SLC'. These may be great cues, but they were NOT made by Ray...

I've just started sanding the finish on a couple of cues to which I applied several layers of Ceramithane. According to the label, you can recoat every 2 hours. I did that, but have since heard that I should limit applications to 2 per day. They were last coated about 3 days ago. While sanding...

I just glued in the points for my next cue and was wondering if it is necessary to wipe until the towel stays white, or if just a couple of wipes is sufficient. I'm using a whole forest worth of paper towels and who knows how much acetone for cocobolo, padauk, and a few others. Am I wasting time...

I have a 9' AMF Grand Prix that I want set up again. The cloth is still attached to the middle slate. Is it possible to use the Simonis fabric again? It didn't get a lot of use. The table was disassembled this last spring.

I'm thinking of using my router (which is of course mounted to my lathe carriage) for sanding/buffing so that I don't get high spots and low spots when I sand/buff the finish. Has anybody else tried this and would you recommend it? Is a Dremel better? I was hoping to avoid the price and short...