2 Cue quesions: cue length; shaft diameter

[livemusic]

If you buy a cue in, say, 13mm and later decide it's too thick and you want, say, 12.75mm, can you 'fix' this with a repair, can you sand it (whatever "it" is) down or must you buy another shaft? Is the diameter pertaining to just the tip or tip/ferrule or is it also the end of the shaft or just what is it?

How do you measure length of an assembled cue? Measure where to where?

Sorry for ignorance on cues; I could not find an answer via search.

 

[S.Vaskovskyi]

To answer your question about the cue length is pretty simple. It's from the face of the ferrule to the end of the butt cap (bumper does not count).
When it comes to your first question about turning down a shaft. It very much depends on what kind a shaft, what construction, what ferrule wall thickness etc.
When it comes to diameters at the tip end of a shaft. When I build my shafts I want the wood near the ferrule, my short outside ferrule, inside ferrule which looks like around 2 mm thick pad and a tip ... all mentioned parts as close to the same diameter as I can do (bearing in mind different materials meeting each other wood/plastic or whatever and leather).
Those old school solid maple shafts could be turned down much more comparing to most LD shafts. The best person to ask when it comes to the shaft to turn down is the builder of the shaft. Who might know better than the builder?

 

[mikemosconi]

You asked about measuring an Assembled cue- that measurement is from the top of the cue tip to the bottom of the cue butt Not including the rubber cue bumper.

You asked about changing a shaft diameter- from 13MM to 12.75MM- you first have to decide what sort of shaft TAPER you desire- do you want the shaft to begin at 12.75 just below the ferrule and how long do you want the shaft to stay at that 12.75 measurement? How gradually do you want the shaft diameter to increase FROM the 12.75 initial diameter starting at or just below the ferrule?

All of this is best left to a discussion with a reputable cue maker in order to get it right the first time- difficult to ADD wood to a shaft once you remove it!