Hand planing shaft?

Very sharp blades, and sharpened before they dull too much. Dull blades, introduce stress into the wood.
Some use guides to keep the taper a constant and pack the slave table up as needed.
Lots of options, but not something that anybody can do. It takes some special skills that just seem to have to do it well.
Neil
 
whammo57 said:
I have seen the videos and I can't imagine that the shaft comes out round............. I know I couldn't do it...............

Kim
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I can't imagine why you can't imagine - I imagine there are many things you can't do.
I KNOW there are many things I can't do.

Imagine there's no countries...

Dale(imaginative)
 
JoeyInCali said:
Like Ronnie Sullivan?
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Is he any good though??

Hand crafting is rapidly being forgotten in the modern world. CNC makes things easier and faster, further unleashing what was once inconceivable or "impossibly" challenging.

I remember going to the fair as a kid and watching in awe as the carvers work. I don't know if this still goes on, but it is still fascinating. Now, for a fraction of the price, I could buy something that is most likely more accurate....made by a machine.H and made carvings and sculptures are getting more and more rare as few would pay the true value of such pieces of art.

Everything we do as cuemakers has been done with machines(certain extraordinary exceptions apply), so CNC is a natural evolution.

With the advent of the internet I think we lose sight of how easy things are compared to those who broke ground and paved the road. Instead of sitting down with a guy like Jerry Franklin to pick his brain, we Google what we want and it's basically right there.

With respect to Rick, I think "who would buy that with the availability of modern machines?" pretty much sums up EXACTLY where, for the most part, the world's mind is at.

It's a pretty easy assumption that 95% of the guys on here never would have started, or simply quit quickly, if the enormous amount of information on the internet wasn't available.

So......and to avoid excluding anyone, I'd like to thank those who remember making phone calls and ruining lots of wood trying to learn on there own. I understand how frustrating it can be to see others take it all for granted..

Sincerely,

Randy Kramer
Kramer Cues
 
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I agree with everything Randy says, but in my opinion the most important thing CNC does for us is to make things (shafts, tapers, inlays) accurate and repeatable.
My 2 cents,
Gary
 
pescadoman said:
With respect to Rick, I think "who would buy that with the availability of modern machines?" pretty much sums up EXACTLY where, for the most part, the world's mind is at.

.......

Sincerely,

Randy Kramer
Kramer Cues
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I wonder how many cue makers use "modern machines" that are metal lathes with hand scraped ways. Never underestimate the quality of hand work from skilled craftsmen.

Dave
 
pescadoman said:
Is he any good though??

Hand crafting is rapidly being forgotten in the modern world. CNC makes things easier and faster, further unleashing what was once inconceivable or "impossibly" challenging.

I remember going to the fair as a kid and watching in awe as the carvers work. I don't know if this still goes on, but it is still fascinating. Now, for a fraction of the price, I could buy something that is most likely more accurate....made by a machine.H and made carvings and sculptures are getting more and more rare as few would pay the true value of such pieces of art.

Everything we do as cuemakers has been done with machines(certain extraordinary exceptions apply), so CNC is a natural evolution.

With the advent of the internet I think we lose sight of how easy things are compared to those who broke ground and paved the road. Instead of sitting down with a guy like Jerry Franklin to pick his brain, we Google what we want and it's basically right there.

With respect to Rick, I think "who would buy that with the availability of modern machines?" pretty much sums up EXACTLY where, for the most part, the world's mind is at.

It's a pretty easy assumption that 95% of the guys on here never would have started, or simply quit quickly, if the enormous amount of information on the internet wasn't available.

So......and to avoid excluding anyone, I'd like to thank those who remember making phone calls and ruining lots of wood trying to learn on there own. I understand how frustrating it can be to see others take it all for granted..

Sincerely,

Randy Kramer
Kramer Cues
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Well stated.

I started making cues when I was 19. I didn't have any resources whatsoever. I had no books, no videos, no other cuemakers (I literally never talked to another cuemaker about how to build cues). I never had CNC anything.

I taught myself how to build short-splice cues. I built my own sleds to cut the pockets.

Unfortunately I moved to where I haven't had enough space to build. All for the best.

I believe that a person should do something at least once in his life without having a map or step-by-step instructions.

Figure it y'own self.
 
Randy is right. It was a little tougher before the web. You were on your own, period. Hand planing shafts is probably fairly easy after years of practice. . After 55 years I can take shafts down 50 thousandths and re-t taper them in three minutes with just sandpaper, but I don't. Practice Practice, Practice.
 
DaveK said:
I wonder how many cue makers use "modern machines" that are metal lathes with hand scraped ways. Never underestimate the quality of hand work from skilled craftsmen.

Dave
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I was making a general statement that is quantitatively true regarding all skilled crafts these days. A master craftsman takes untold times the effort doing the same thing a machine can do in seconds. Even then it can't be more accurate. The people willing to pay for handcrafted items is waning.

BTW, I've only seen cross slides scraped..:thumbup:
 
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