Where did you get your cutter? I need one like that!Threading all dowels and tenon is the only way for me. Over the years doing repair seeing many of the none threaded coming apart.
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Where did you get your cutter? I need one like that!Threading all dowels and tenon is the only way for me. Over the years doing repair seeing many of the none threaded coming apart.
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I wonder how many of you guys thread your ring work?
Well why not?
I wonder how many of you guys thread your ring work?
Well why not?
I wonder how many of you guys thread your ring work?
Well why not?
I wonder how many of you guys thread your ring work?
Well why not?
Don't need to.....the ring packs are captured between threaded parts (collars).
Shouldn't ever come loose for 100 + years .
Maybe thats what screw on tips were for.
I wonder how many of you guys thread your ring work?
Well why not?
Frank...are you bored?
LMAO, yes!
But, suppose I was making a joint to a fix two pieces of steel together and I was gonna weld them together, would i gain anything by threading them first? I've done this a hell of a lot of times over the last 40+ years and never had a need to use both threads and weld. It's the same thing really. I'm not convinced 2 mechanical bonds are required but then again, I don't build anybody elses cues, and have had no problems with mine. It's just what I do, but I'm not saying it is any better, just don't see the need so far.
LMAO, yes!
But, suppose I was making a joint to a fix two pieces of steel together and I was gonna weld them together, would i gain anything by threading them first? I've done this a hell of a lot of times over the last 40+ years and never had a need to use both threads and weld. It's the same thing really. I'm not convinced 2 mechanical bonds are required but then again, I don't build anybody elses cues, and have had no problems with mine. It's just what I do, but I'm not saying it is any better, just don't see the need so far.
LMAO, yes!
But, suppose I was making a joint to a fix two pieces of steel together and I was gonna weld them together, would i gain anything by threading them first? I've done this a hell of a lot of times over the last 40+ years and never had a need to use both threads and weld. It's the same thing really. I'm not convinced 2 mechanical bonds are required but then again, I don't build anybody elses cues, and have had no problems with mine. It's just what I do, but I'm not saying it is any better, just don't see the need so far.
Oh no, you did not just compare threading and gluing on a pool cue to welding two pieces of steel together, did you?
The threads in a ferrule and on a wood tenon are what I would consider only one mechanical bond. Each part is 1/2 of the total. The glue is not what I would consider a mechanical bond...it's a glue bond and help keeps the mechanical bond from unwinding itself. That's all the glue is used for on the cues I build.
I can assemble a plain cue (no points or rings) with the only glue on the entire cue (shaft and butt) holding the tip on. IMO, you just don't get any more solid than that.
But, that of course, is just my opinion. That's why I call them custom cues. Not just because they may be made to some personal spec for an individual player but because I do some things most would never consider doing in their cues and probably think I'm crazy for doing it in mine.
I have the do it once and do it right mission statement for my end product. Now does that mean I've never had one of cues come back? No one building cues can say that and not be stretching the truth.
Frank, you do what you feel comfortable with and feel what is best for your end product...I'll do the same. I'm not trying convince you or anyone else what's right or what's wrong, I'm just trying to explain the correct way of doing things.
When you shoot a finish you need a chemical bond As Well as a mechanical bond for a proper finish, so id you finish with epoxy as some do, is it not mechanical as well as chemical. Of course it is, so therefore epoxy in a joint is mechanical as well.
I never said it was wrong for anyone to thread, I just said I don't thread ferrules because I don't have trouble with them.