Have yo had it with "my cue has more/sharper points than you."

[jondrums]

see picture below.

I have been messing with lots of crazy cue ideas, and I think I'd like
to try something like this. I am in a position to cnc a nice pair of
aluminum (or other material?) router table templates for the joint.
Is this how you'd make it?

I am NOT a cue maker and I don't ever intend to be, but I have done
lots of woodworking. I would be willing to create the hard tooling (and
allow the cuemaker to make unlimited blanks under his/her name) in
exchange for a very nicely finished pair of player/break cues to my
specifications made from blanks that it creates.

Anyone the least bit interested/have the ability to pull something like
this off?

Jon

 

[Jack Flanagan]

what you are showing looks a lot like a 'butterfly splice',,,,these are fairly easy to make and require no template....

I've been wrong before;(and will be again); check out butterfly cues in the AZ forum,,,I'm sure someone has posted photos and argued about this topic......j

Merry Christmas.....

 

[bandido]

what you are showing looks a lot like a 'butterfly splice',,,,these are fairly easy to make and require no template....

I've been wrong before;(and will be again); check out butterfly cues in the AZ forum,,,I'm sure someone has posted photos and argued about this topic......j

Merry Christmas.....

Jack, that's a double butterfly. The male part has a rounded end instead of a point. The tricky part is getting that matched in contour with the female part.

Merry Christmas Guys!!

 

[jondrums]

Jack, that's a double butterfly. The male part has a rounded end instead of a point. The tricky part is getting that matched in contour with the female part.

hey - that's where the pair of matched cnc'ed aluminum router templates come in. That's how I would do it at least.
Jon
ps. sorry for the huge pic - I didn't think it was that big...

 

[bandido]

I apologize. Am having a bad day.

 

[LOU'S CUE'S]

if ya got access to a cnc to make templates........why not use the cnc to cut the splice ???

 

[jondrums]

yeah I could do that!

I was just wondering if anyone out there was interesting in making more
than one of these (and thus trading some work for the permanent
templates). Also, as I said I'm not a cuemaker and don't really have
access to nice seasoned wood to make the blank. I suppose if I'm only
making one or two of these, I could easily do as you say and just cnc the
wood.

Maybe there's a cuemaker that has a couple of nice pieces of seasoned
coco and bem that I could buy ready to splice. I could do the splice and
have someone finish the butt and make a shaft for it.

Jon