Extreme cue repair

Bob Jewett said:
A guy at the rec center where I learned to play could really have used this guy's services. About twice a year...

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Most english snooker and pool cues are made by splicing in blocks of wood to the butt section, gluing and clamping and then planing off the excess to make it round. In theory it should be possible to repair a shaft with a huge splinter cut out of it the same way. Would it feel the same? I doubt it, but it would be a fun experiment. The problem is exactly what happened to this guy. It will be pulled off straight. Will it stay straight after using his method? I doubt it.
 
Sheldon said:
If you look closely at the end, it's super crooked. :ROFLMAO:
A lot of work for that result. Might be worth it to hang on the wall if it truly had sentimental value.
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Part of that may have been due to how the splinters were aligned while the glue set. A better gluing fixture might have been a straight V-groove in a 3-foot board and a "lid" to hold the stick in the groove.
 
That was me in the late 90's early 2000's. haha. I must have broken my shaft about 10 times and glued it back together. Sometimes the same shaft, sometimes a new one. They surprisingly played ok.
 
This looks cool and it’s a nice restoration but it’s not playable anymore.
As he said at the beginning, the customer has sentimental feelings for the cue so it’s nice that it was repaired but I would not use it anymore
 
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