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Hey Sheldon did you ever get around to checking for some of those black fibre ferrules I was after a while back ?

How about wearing a glove if you don't hate them too much - stops most of the hand dirt at least . Use Q-glide regulary and a good leather burnisher to keep the pores as closed as possible! I'm lucky here in Oz , most cues are ash snooker cues and people love the darker patina as the shaft ages...

Most English cues today are 58" standard length and 16.5 - to 18.5 oz . Tips size is now generally 9.5 to 10mm in diameter , not the larger 11mmm or more of bygone era's !:D . Almost all the cues I make here in South Oz are either snooker cues or 8ball pool cues (1 3/4" cueball , 2" object)...

Just got the book , sent all the way to South Australia . I'll have to have a look at this other method shortly , been using the torch method for a few years myself unless it's a broken brass pin (I get a few cheap snooker cues with these pins broken) which I drill out quite easily .

I bought the Cuesmith one myself , $100 , and for another $35 Chris promptly sent it all the way to me in South Australia ! No one here has even heard of a rear chuck before . One of my wiser purchases for sure , makes a lot of jobs a lot easier !;)

A predator is drilled out a lot more than the first 1" , around 5 1/4" roughly (from memory) last time I modded a Z for someone !

Nearly all my exotic hardwoods come from Bellforest products in Michigan . I get Ash from Teak and Fancy timbers in Qld or Carbatec in Perth . Keep quiet about all those great burls and desert hardwoods we have here in Oz , we don't wan't it all getting snapped by the folk in the USA:p I...

Good stuff , thanks all ! I'll probably go the third method as I don't have a tenon compression die although sooner or later I suppose I better get one ! Bazz

A mate just got a couple of Ivory ferules from Muellers , not having used it before can someone tell whether I should drill at low, medium or high speed (I'm thinking around 360 - 600 rpm on my metal lathe . Can you also tell me the usual inside diameter when using Ivory and whether it's best...

Never seen any myself but I was told someone down in Tassie makes a few cues with Jarrah shafts and Tassie Blackwood butts . I might have a go some time and probably give to a friend or the local junior leauge as a prize - unless I'm surprised by the playing quantities . Ya never know it might...

are there commercial "adapters" for putting a taper bar setup on a metal lathe ? I'm sure I remember one of the cue makers/cue machinery makers sells em .

actually curly maple can be sugar maple (hard , rock) , but it can also often be red maple (soft) , I buy either from Bellforest !

you've obviously never seen a guy who has to get out of the bar or pool hall REALLY , REALLY fast , perhaps after hustling some money !:rolleyes: there's a good use for most things , originally intended or not !:)

I found the guy at cuecomponents to be the most arrogant smuck I've ever had the mispleasure of attempting to deal with - Not once did he reply to a single email of roughly 10 I sent him over an 8week period . I then carelessly bought some shaft blanks off him on Ebay .(didn't look at the...

didn't you bother to read the other posts after the one your quoting ? You would have noticed your point's been stated and replied to ! Still , "better late than never" , not !:p

I agree that not many will appreciate the way the post was made but he has a point , this is a forum called "Ask the cue maker" , although I guess it's not called "cuemakers divulging their suppliers" . Maybe the forum could have a suppliers list - or would that be considered unpaid advertising...

Geez , I see Tiger blades are as expensive as everything else Tiger ! :p

I'm gonna get shouted down here but after a lot of consultation with Tony Jones from Talisman and getting nowhere (not Tony's fault) I went back to the same tool I use for non layered tips - a combo disc/belt sander . Yes I know heating the tips can cause the layers to seperate - however - use a...

cheers , mainly after different joiners , ferrules/materials , occasional shaft blank if someone's after a laminated shaft . I don't buy partial veneers or stuff like that but get quite a lot of my timber from Bellforest products , got my rear-chuck from Chris Hightower (no-one here in Oz has...

was there a pilot drilled a little past where the thread was tapped ?