Do you cut shafts from house cues ?

WilleeCue

WilleeCue

The Barefoot Cuemaker
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How many cue makers cut shafts from house cues at the request of the buyer?
How about for your personal use?

I like the denser and darker shaft wood the house cue often provides.
Cant argue about if the wood is well seasoned or not ... it is!
But sometimes even the old seasoned wood from a house cue just will not stay straight no matter how slow you cut it down.
Other pieces dont seem to matter how fast you go.

I know the current trend is snow white and straight grained.

Some of my best playing shafts IMHO have been yellow and a bit wavy.

Willee
 
WilleeCue said:
How many cue makers cut shafts from house cues at the request of the buyer?
How about for your personal use?

I like the denser and darker shaft wood the house cue often provides.
Cant argue about if the wood is well seasoned or not ... it is!
But sometimes even the old seasoned wood from a house cue just will not stay straight no matter how slow you cut it down.
Other pieces dont seem to matter how fast you go.

I know the current trend is snow white and straight grained.

Some of my best playing shafts IMHO have been yellow and a bit wavy.

Willee
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Willie,
I have made a few and like you I prefer the older dense wood as well.
It is well seasoned !!
If an old house cue is reasonable straight after many years, I have had good luck with them. If you have to cut out a warp, it usually comes back.
Just my take on it!
Glad to see you posting again !!
John
 
Well, you can look at it this way. Some of the best wood for building floors and furniture comes from old barns and houses. One of my cue repair friends used to buy up all the old house cues he could and cut shafts out of the middle section. He made some of the best hitting shafts you could wish for. I don't know what his cull rate was but the final product he handed you was as good as any shaft I have ever played with.

The trend here is not to make the shafts white anymore. Several companies introduced the concept that a shaft should be "white" and theirs was made by white by a bleaching process. Using this process leads to a higher rate of warping so we don't use it on Fury cues. Our shafts are left in the natural state.

I read that Jerry Franklin of SouthWest cues also thought that the darker the wood the better. One person related a story that every time he played with Jerry in Las Vegas Jerry would run his finger alongside his nose and then apply a coat of oil to the shaft to further seal it.
 
> I read somewhere on here where people were buying new house cues,and cutting a section out of the middle as a source for pre-tapered shaft blanks. Tommy D.
 
Nose sweat to seal a cue? My bald head sweats like crazy, I could make a fortune. Just hang at a tourny and charge folks to roll their shafts on my noggin.
 
John Barton said:
I read that Jerry Franklin of SouthWest cues also thought that the darker the wood the better. One person related a story that every time he played with Jerry in Las Vegas Jerry would run his finger alongside his nose and then apply a coat of oil to the shaft to further seal it.
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Nose Grease ... just one more use for it. LOL.

Willee
 
Question for y'all:

I have a large selection of really old house cues. My dad just refinished a 1922 Brunswick Madison, and when he bought the table about 10 really old matching Brunswick house cues came with it, along with some accessories.

My question is: how much does it run to have these cut down to playing shafts, and how long does the process take? Roughly?

Josh
 
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