Can A Cuemaker Admit They Are Human?

[JB Cases]

i was cutting out my last inlay of about 30 inlays. everything was great until in forgot to zero the machine. needless to say it drove in so far and fast that it had a real nice burn and hole in it of the router head. all that time destroyed in one second.

God I hate when that happens. I use the laser engraver all the time and I can't stand it when I forget to set the machine to the right starting point, or focus it right or worst forget to make sure that all extraneous shapes are not part of the file to be cut.

Every time I think I got it down and now I can cut something quick then forgetting a step burns me.

 

[hillscues]

i had picked out 4 veneers and completely glued them in backwards, so i thought that looks fine i'll do the next 4 points the same way some how i did those 4 opposite. the guy who bought the cue said look you took the time to reverse those colors from the small points to the big points.

 

[poolstixx]

That cue probably looked really good!!!

 

[poolcuemaster]

I put on a tip yesterday and while trimming with a utility blade I hit the second nuckle of my left pointing finger on the spinning chuck and lost some skin and blood. Went upstairs and hit a few balls with a paper towel wrapped around finger and hated the way the tip hit so went back downstairs and cut the tip off, glued on a wizard tip Mike Webb sent me and while trimming the tip I hit the first nuckle of the same finger the same way and got out the superglue and fixed my fingers. Some people don't believe that ca was invented for gluing cuts together but a dermatoligist friend told me to use it and there is no side effects, the emergency departments would lose to much money if the word would have gotten out. We glued a drunk broke friends lower lip back together after a bar fight and it didn't even leave a scar.--Leonard

I'm thinking about a coffee can lid over the chuck when I can't extend the shaft a few inches from the chuck, this cue shaft was out 4 thousandts extended and out 1 chucked close to the ferrule.

 

[Cue Crazy]

I put on a tip yesterday and while trimming with a utility blade I hit the second nuckle of my left pointing finger on the spinning chuck and lost some skin and blood. Went upstairs and hit a few balls with a paper towel wrapped around finger and hated the way the tip hit so went back downstairs and cut the tip off, glued on a wizard tip Mike Webb sent me and while trimming the tip I hit the first nuckle of the same finger the same way and got out the superglue and fixed my fingers. Some people don't believe that ca was invented for gluing cuts together but a dermatoligist friend told me to use it and there is no side effects, the emergency departments would lose to much money if the word would have gotten out. We glued a drunk broke friends lower lip back together after a bar fight and it didn't even leave a scar.--Leonard

I'm thinking about a coffee can lid over the chuck when I can't extend the shaft a few inches from the chuck, this cue shaft was out 4 thousandts extended and out 1 chucked close to the ferrule.

A family friend that worked on lifeflight told Me about that years ago. The CA has saved Me many visits to the ER when I would have needed some stitches otherwise. Works much better then steri-strips.

Greg

 

[patrickcues]

Meaning: Can any of us admit to thinking, or doing, or not knowing something, or making a mistake, and feeling like a complete idiot?

BHQ, has always been honest, and told stories, and I totaly respect him for this, most try to cover up what they don't know in many different ways, some funny, some horribly misleading. COME ON GUYS, LETS TELL SOME GOOD ONES.

I'll Start,

I don't always speak up on every subject, but I think I know wood rather well, not down to there technical names, but most things about them, any way here it goes:

I've been chasing Pau Ferro for a couple of years now, every time I talk to a supplier about it, it's either there out, or have never heard of it? Well I finaly found some, place a big order just in case I have trouble finding more in the future, I get it in, Look at it, I go over to my wood supply and pull out some pieces of wood I got when I bought out another cuemaker like 4-5 years ago Same stuff, I'm disapointed, so I call the guy and tell him he must have sent me the wrong stuff, I said you sent me Morado, I ordered Pau Ferro. :speechless: needless to say it's the same damn wood, I've had some for years and didn't know about it.

So now I have some really nice pau ferro, super aged and ready to rock:thumbup:

Come one guys, we all have been there, lets hear your bone head moment.

Where to start!!!! I have knocked the skin off the knuckle of my index finger off probably 10 times now. For some reason it always hurts more than the last. I was tipping house cues for a local room, chuck it up in the lathe I had a bench with a big thick telephone book on the back side to keep it from flopping around. Needless to say that didn't work. It went to flopping around and eventually broke...... well I tried to catch it, Lets just say I have a permanent lump on my forearm where I have been hit. getting smarter here. I built a steady rest on my bench for doing these. Yea, I had one about 5 months ago start flopping again. Where do you think it got me this time. Same damn place. That bruise was with me for a while. So I quit doing house cues. That is what I get for thinking I had that problem fixed. It only took 10 years from the last one to get me again. This time I knew I had broke my arm. Nope just a big bruise.

I have so many of these that there isnt enough time to cover them all. But this is the one that hurt the most.