Hollow out the shaft.

[JoeyInCali]

I couldn't care less if you do it, (and I doubt they care) but drilling the front of a shaft is what Predator has a patent on.

http://www.google.com/patents/US6162128


3raildraw

Yea, I've made more than a few thousand cues.

Didn't the patent lapse already?

 

[3raildraw]

Could be, I really don't know.

Publication number US6162128 A
Publication type Grant
Application number US 08/825,249
Publication date Dec 19, 2000
Filing date Mar 27, 1997
Priority date Sep 29, 1994
Fee status Lapsed

#raildraw

 

[JoeyInCali]

Could be, I really don't know.

Publication number US6162128 A
Publication type Grant
Application number US 08/825,249
Publication date Dec 19, 2000
Filing date Mar 27, 1997
Priority date Sep 29, 1994
Fee status Lapsed

#raildraw

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...bLlwQRFhp9rBSQ&bvm=bv.103073922,d.cGU&cad=rja


Filing date Mar 27, 1997
Priority date Sep 29, 1994
Fee status Lapsed
That one involves a lighter wood tenon/insert.