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The trouble is, most oak is very "lively" wood. It is mostly just pure fluke to get a piece which does not warp somehow as you work on it. Not much of problem for making furniture, but a real PITA for anything else where more precision is needed. You don´t see oak stocked rifles because of this...

If one have just a dioptrical issue, the contacts can be cats meow, except for people whose eyes can´t stand being covered with rather impermeable material of the lenses. But for us who have astigmatism (cylindrical aberration) in our eye lens, the contacts are a no-go. Pricey as hell and a...

I´ve put on one of the harder Elkmasters and set it for about dime radius. Initial impressions from today´s long afternoon, after some chat-and-shoot games of 14.1 and some carom billiard (yup, with a pool cue-now I know why they are different). For pool, compared to original ferrule, there...

OK, so 1" black acrylic ferrule is done. Upon polishing, I let the polishing fabric strap to dry to produce some heat and to check the edge, if some deformation occurs. So-I burned three fingers and no kind of heat damage is visible. The shaft is dirty, without binging it down some 0,008" I...

I always say that the beauty of things is in the material and obvious skillfullness of the work done to it. Not the bells and whistles and shiney top, but the raw material and craftsmanship. This is very nice by all measures. And if this stays dead straight for some 30 years, it´s going to be...

I have seen two ways how to cut curved piece of ivory: When the tusk piece is known as solid and clean of any cracks, then using a piece of plywood and gluing the tusk to a position that yields maximum gain-using wooden washers, wedges etc. and using another strap of plywood to clamp it down...

I managed to unthread the ferule, to find out that the tennon threads are mostly glue on the lower portion of the tennon-so I´ll have to replace the tennon anyway in the future. Spent some time with thread chasing file to get the mess cleared somehow so-so, but it is "just not toast". So I bite...

Implex, that´s the word! I should add that I don´t move the balls at high speed and rarely I get the ferrule in contact with the cloth (maybe that´s why I always had a hard time to make a runback over table lenght). I always burnished by piece of leather handheld, so this probably does not...

Hello, I´m sorry as this got a bit lenghty. I´ve searched high and low as a lurker around this wonderful well of pool knowledge and elsewhere and found just one example of using acrylic for a ferrule, but no info about how it plays. I´m teaching my hand some things up from scratch again after...