Good lathe

[JC]

Keith
Where did you hear that?
There is nothing especially more hazardous about purple heart than maple or many other woods used in cuemaking. However,some of the oily hardwoods like cocobolo can cause distress for some people. You have to avoid breathing the dust of all woods.
Gary

It was a pain in the ass but I believe the single best thing I have done since I started playing with cues was to put my dust collector on the outside of the shop.

I spent some pretty good money for a dust collector that was supposed to filter to 1 micron and 73 dba noise to try to keep it inside and believe me it still belongs outside.

JC

 

[Canadian cue]

Obviously a cuemaker needs a lathe, or more than one. But for making cones and profiling, it has always puzzled me that AFAIK, none uses a linear profiler, which is designed to do that type work. Maybe they've all gone to the scrapyard since furniture plants moved to cnc, or moved offshore. But i saw a couple advertised cheap in the past few months. Then again i guess cue-makers are all going cnc, too.

smt

The large manufactures do use a type of profiler but I believe they are are usually custom made for the purpose. Here is an example from Viking cues.
https://youtu.be/CzFVZrBUg6M?t=26

 

[TheBasics]

Howdy All;

Here's a "wood Toxicity" table ;

http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood-toxicity-table/

Nice conversation on the machinery by the way.

hank