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i recently cored my first front its a piece of eony in about to stick it on a cored piece of tulip wood and i was curious if you could turn down cored piece faster??

the ebony is cored with maple and the tulip wood (handle) is cored with purple heart.

thanks!!
 
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Trent said:
i recently cored my first front its a piece of eony in about to stick it on a cored piece of tulip wood and i was curious if you could turn down cored piece faster??

the ebony is cored with maple and the tulip wood (handle) is cored with purple heart.

thanks!!
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Trent, I would use only maple for the core, maple is less expensive than the other woods your talking about. Maple is much more stable, and is used by many cue makers as the core. I use shaft wood that will not make the grade for a good shaft.
Make sure you have plenty of glue rings on the core, around the core as well as 3 or 4 long ways, not to deep, just good enough to hold your glue, upon installing the core, in your forearm, coat it with lots of glue, and twist the forearm on to the core. Not sure why your wanting to turn the piece down faster? Slow down and make sure it fitts perfect..
All the best.
blud
 
leonard, i wasnt talking about the core being turned down i was talking about some pieces i have cored already and was curious if the ebony i cored with maple or the tulip wood i cored with purple heart could be turned down faster due to it being cored. thanks for the response tho, and im hoping to get back to you with a finialization on that machinery qoute, thanks!
 
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Yes you can turn them faster, but don't be fooled into thinking they are bullet proof. Cored cues can still move. So even though they are more stable under most conditons they can still move some. Just take your time.
 
Once it's already cored, you could push it a little. Check your moisture content between cuts, and if it stays pretty consistent, you can hit it pretty hard. Just make sure you let it rest a while before the last 10 or 20 thousandths.
I always make sure my cores sit at 20 thou or so over for a good long time, that's one piece you DO NOT want shrinking up on you after cutting/installing.
 
Being that you have an ebony front, I will tell what happened to me. I had a cored ebony front that I purchased, let it be for about a year, then started cutting it, and the last cut I took on it, I didn't re-seal it and then put it aside. About 2 months later, I went to attach it to a handle, and found a large crack at the top of it. IMO, woods such as ebony that are dense and hard, tend to do bad things when cut too often, or too aggressively, even cored, more so, as they end up with a thinner layer at the end. I personally believe, don't rush it, it will be 'soup' when it's ready to be....
Dave
 
You can turn a cored piece a little faster but do you really want to risk having a piece move ? Never rush anything is the best policy, you can push a cored peice a little faster but not to much, like chris said they aren't bullet proof.
 
Put a hole in that ebony, wrap it in plastic with punched holes.
Store it and come back next year.:thumbup:
 
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