Can A Cuemaker Admit They Are Human?
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Well ive done almost all of whats been mentioned LOL. ive sanded my fingers down, Ive put my fingers in the headstock while sanding. I have forgoten to ingauge the taper bar and I have forgoten to lock the bering that runs across the taper bar so It would rise up and just ruin what ever was in the lathe. These were all done with in the first year of making cues. This was the reason that I would only clean shafts a replace tips while I was figuring out how to make cues. I just would get to many things running in my head and forget to take a needed step.
Recently I was finish a shaft on my curent player and I was sanding it. It was a UV finish so I would put it in the lathe sand and then put another small coat. You do this like 4 times and I finaly had the finish built up to what it needed to be I turned the lathe on and damm if I didnt forget to lock the tail stock and that shaft just smacked the lathe quite a few times. I really wanted to use the shaft that day too.
Last one. I was making some sloted ring work and I had my maple at .900 it was joint work. I had not bored out the center yet I was try a different way and wouldnt you know I cut the pockets too deep. Now ive done the exact oposite but that was the second or third time I made ring work. This was about 4 months ago. I was so pissed all the time down the drain. I was pretty sure that when I cut them off that they would fall apart and I was not disapointed. I just had to laugh it off.
Ive never done anything wrong to a customers cue yet (knock on wood).
All of my major mistakes have come from not foucusing enough on what I was doing. Ive had some personal stuff to deal with lately and Its the mistakes I mentioned and the fear of loosing a finger that has kept me out of the shop the past month. I just have not been able to keep a clear head and ive learned my lessons from the past.
Recently I was finish a shaft on my curent player and I was sanding it. It was a UV finish so I would put it in the lathe sand and then put another small coat. You do this like 4 times and I finaly had the finish built up to what it needed to be I turned the lathe on and damm if I didnt forget to lock the tail stock and that shaft just smacked the lathe quite a few times. I really wanted to use the shaft that day too.
Last one. I was making some sloted ring work and I had my maple at .900 it was joint work. I had not bored out the center yet I was try a different way and wouldnt you know I cut the pockets too deep. Now ive done the exact oposite but that was the second or third time I made ring work. This was about 4 months ago. I was so pissed all the time down the drain. I was pretty sure that when I cut them off that they would fall apart and I was not disapointed. I just had to laugh it off.
Ive never done anything wrong to a customers cue yet (knock on wood).
All of my major mistakes have come from not foucusing enough on what I was doing. Ive had some personal stuff to deal with lately and Its the mistakes I mentioned and the fear of loosing a finger that has kept me out of the shop the past month. I just have not been able to keep a clear head and ive learned my lessons from the past.
I've done quite a lot of the ones mentioned already, and also the chuck key still in the head trick, repeatedly, on all 3 of my lathes. Caught one in the jaw recently. The scariest one so far has been back last fall when I had my second carpul tunnel surgury and was out for 6 weeks. Of couse I can't go to work, BUT I can hang out in my garage/shop and do a few things one handed....ya, right
I was 5 days past the surgury, ands was running my Atlas 10" to face off a part, leaning over the lathe and forgot that the powerfeed was still engaged. I had my bad hand tucked close to my stomach, and thought it was safe, but then felt a tug on the hand and felt it getting pulled into the bench. I jumped back, and had to pull hard twice for the gauze to rip off. I guess there had been a little gauze sticking out and the leadscrew caught it and was wrapping it around itself. When I ripped it free, it was only about an inch from my hand going in. I shut everything off and didn't go back for a week. Ever since then I have been really paranoid about my shirt hanging out, etc.
The other thing I did was about 4 yrs ago, it involved a bench saw. I was notching a small piece of wood and didn't use a pushstick. The piece jammed at the back of the blade, on the throat, and it shot foward at me and my hand went straight down into the top of the blade. The blade shot my hand right back to me, and all I could do was instantly wrap my hand in my shirt, and shut everything down and run to the hospital. I was VERY lucky, I only shaved the side of one bone and cut the tips of 3 fingers. I have a few scars, but full use of all fingers, but man, was I lucky. I now use a push stick all the time.
Dave
I was 5 days past the surgury, ands was running my Atlas 10" to face off a part, leaning over the lathe and forgot that the powerfeed was still engaged. I had my bad hand tucked close to my stomach, and thought it was safe, but then felt a tug on the hand and felt it getting pulled into the bench. I jumped back, and had to pull hard twice for the gauze to rip off. I guess there had been a little gauze sticking out and the leadscrew caught it and was wrapping it around itself. When I ripped it free, it was only about an inch from my hand going in. I shut everything off and didn't go back for a week. Ever since then I have been really paranoid about my shirt hanging out, etc.
The other thing I did was about 4 yrs ago, it involved a bench saw. I was notching a small piece of wood and didn't use a pushstick. The piece jammed at the back of the blade, on the throat, and it shot foward at me and my hand went straight down into the top of the blade. The blade shot my hand right back to me, and all I could do was instantly wrap my hand in my shirt, and shut everything down and run to the hospital. I was VERY lucky, I only shaved the side of one bone and cut the tips of 3 fingers. I have a few scars, but full use of all fingers, but man, was I lucky. I now use a push stick all the time.
Dave
dave sutton
Banned
will8834 said:
thats not your fault. i did the same thing.
i guess in a 1 lb spool they put multiple layers of linen. so i did one wrap and about 3 inches from the end there was a spot where a strand was broken. not the enitre piece just one little strand.
so i took it off.
then the second time i ran out of linen. it was cut in the middle of the spool i guess.
third time was a charm. i was very annoyed that day.
I was tapering a butt down on my metal lathe and locked the tool post but only hand tightened the mount for the router. Yeah it came loose half way threw the taper and took a 1/2 deep gouge out of the middle of the cue...It sucked and the cue was close to finish size so it wouldnt cut out ouch!!!! The first and last thing I check now.....Paranoid.....lol........Dave
dave sutton
Banned
HAHAHAHAHAHAdesi2960 said:
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!
I have a lot. Anybody remember this cue when I posted it?
It was just about finished. Everything about it was coming out perfect. I attached 3 shelves to my Cuesmith Lathe to hold tools and things. I had a habit of setting a cue on the bottom shelf when working on several cues at once. This was up there waiting to be sanded and finished. It fell off while working on another cue, hit the chucks and went flying, putting a huge chip in the forearm and making it useless. I had the same thing happen one more time, but I was able to salvage the cue.
When I was building Kevin Lindstrom's first cue, I forgot to tighten the screw on the bearing that runs along the power feed, while cutting the wrap groove. The bearing came up and I cut the cue nearly in half.
I've dropped shafts on the floor after they are finished and ready to go. They always seem to land on the back edge and chip the finish.
It was just about finished. Everything about it was coming out perfect. I attached 3 shelves to my Cuesmith Lathe to hold tools and things. I had a habit of setting a cue on the bottom shelf when working on several cues at once. This was up there waiting to be sanded and finished. It fell off while working on another cue, hit the chucks and went flying, putting a huge chip in the forearm and making it useless. I had the same thing happen one more time, but I was able to salvage the cue.
When I was building Kevin Lindstrom's first cue, I forgot to tighten the screw on the bearing that runs along the power feed, while cutting the wrap groove. The bearing came up and I cut the cue nearly in half.
I've dropped shafts on the floor after they are finished and ready to go. They always seem to land on the back edge and chip the finish.
I recently finished rebuilding a buddy's viking it was buffed and just needed a wrap. I had just cleaned the edges of the wrap groove and was changing the cutting tool to re-face the joint area to get rid of the drip of finish, and the tool caught the edge of the holder as I lifted up and it went right into the middle of the new forearm and took a chunk out of the finish. It was fixable, but I said a lot of bad words that night.
Dave
Dave
Tony Zinzola said:I have a lot. Anybody remember this cue when I posted it?
It was just about finished. Everything about it was coming out perfect. I attached 3 shelves to my Cuesmith Lathe to hold tools and things. I had a habit of setting a cue on the bottom shelf when working on several cues at once. This was up there waiting to be sanded and finished. It fell off while working on another cue, hit the chucks and went flying, putting a huge chip in the forearm and making it useless. I had the same thing happen one more time, but I was able to salvage the cue.
When I was building Kevin Lindstrom's first cue, I forgot to tighten the screw on the bearing that runs along the power feed, while cutting the wrap groove. The bearing came up and I cut the cue nearly in half.
I've dropped shafts on the floor after they are finished and ready to go. They always seem to land on the back edge and chip the finish.
i remember thinking what a sharp front that is
hate to hear you trashed it
did the same to two shafts recently, it even chipped the ivorine4
I have a couple of nice scars as reminders from table and band saws before I built fixtures.
Yes, we can but not in public places where we get flamed for doing anything someone else would consider wrong or stupid.
Case in point:
Years ago I posted that pulling a vacuum on shafts soaking in nelsonite would be faster and penetrate deeper.
I was quickly told that could not be done due to the flash point of the nelsonite.
Even after I explained that I WAS doing it I was told I was nuts.
Some very well known cue makers that now know better went to great lengths explaining why it could not be done.
My deepest darkest cue making secrets (if there is such a thing )
will never be posted in public.
Especially any part numbers of my equipment :thumbup:
Case in point:
Years ago I posted that pulling a vacuum on shafts soaking in nelsonite would be faster and penetrate deeper.
I was quickly told that could not be done due to the flash point of the nelsonite.
Even after I explained that I WAS doing it I was told I was nuts.
Some very well known cue makers that now know better went to great lengths explaining why it could not be done.
My deepest darkest cue making secrets (if there is such a thing )
will never be posted in public.
Especially any part numbers of my equipment :thumbup:
as a reminder and giving use to other mistakes.
BHQ said:g'dammit
i just glued on two buckhorn rings
that were SUPPOSEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD to be .075
yep, grabbed the .100 's by mistake
I believe I remember you mentioning doing that before with a metal ring.
Atleast you didn't leave one of the rings out altogether like I did in one of My cues.:thumbup: Funny but I wasn't going to finish it after I sent a picture to a buddy, and Him noticing what I had done, but someone saw it hanging in the shop, and after many attempts, talked me into finishing It. They bought the cue, and It turned out to be a decent player.
Greg
SOB......if I wasn't just bragging to some friends tonight about snatching up scorpions and putting them in my tank.
Yep.........YEO.....one got my finger tonight and my whole hand is numb.
It's the real deal trying to type with a numb hand!
Burns like your whole hand is on fire......guess I won't be going to sleep any time soon.
Hopefully I can get through the night without any anti-venom.....
<~~~that sucker got squished and never made it to the tank.....
crocodile dundee who?...........
Yep.........YEO.....one got my finger tonight and my whole hand is numb.
It's the real deal trying to type with a numb hand!
Burns like your whole hand is on fire......guess I won't be going to sleep any time soon.
Hopefully I can get through the night without any anti-venom.....
<~~~that sucker got squished and never made it to the tank.....
crocodile dundee who?...........
BarenbruggeCues said:
That sucks. I got popped By one when I was a child cleaning some dried out brush/burn piles for an elderly lady down street, I made it through, after a couple of days was gone without any anti, so luckily I didn't get real sick, but that sucker hurt, felt like My whole arm was on fire like you say. I would not want to get popped by one again, That's for sure.
I had a buddy that kept scorpions as pets. Had a bunch of babies born in his tank one time. not sure what kind they were, but they were much larger then the one that got Me.
Not a cuemaker but I think this counts. The other day a fly was killed when it flew through the laser beam on our laser. It landed on the x-axis bar and was promptly ground into fly bits. The servo motor started skipping a few minutes later as the fly bits gummed up the track.
So we stopped the laser and cleaned everything up as best we could - didn't want to take the assembly apart as I didn't want to have to recalibrate the mirrors and lens.
Anyway, the next day the laser was still skipping a little so my tech was trying to oil it while the laser was running and put his finger in the beam. I told him not to do crap like that.
So the next day the laser is running on a sensitive piece and the track is looking a little dry. I can't stop it in the middle of the piece - WELL I COULD but I am afraid that SOMETHING might happen and the result won't be right. So I try to squirt a drop of oil on the track while the laser is running and put my finger right in the beam. Luckily the power was low and it just felt like a bee sting.
So chalk me one up for the stupid board.
So we stopped the laser and cleaned everything up as best we could - didn't want to take the assembly apart as I didn't want to have to recalibrate the mirrors and lens.
Anyway, the next day the laser was still skipping a little so my tech was trying to oil it while the laser was running and put his finger in the beam. I told him not to do crap like that.
So the next day the laser is running on a sensitive piece and the track is looking a little dry. I can't stop it in the middle of the piece - WELL I COULD but I am afraid that SOMETHING might happen and the result won't be right. So I try to squirt a drop of oil on the track while the laser is running and put my finger right in the beam. Luckily the power was low and it just felt like a bee sting.
So chalk me one up for the stupid board.