How do they taper house cues?

ChopStick

ChopStick

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Do they have a big long lathe and just mount them between centers?

I have a table at home and I was thinking that I would like to have a nice one piece cue. I haven't seem anyone who was making them. I am getting close to buying a lathe, not just to make cues but as a general purpose machine that could also make cues. I would like to try to make some one piece cues for my home.

Any ideas?
 
Most house cues are made in very high production and they are made with various special machinery. I know one factory that has long lathes and cuts them with routers just about like we do two piece cues. They used to have long turning center that ran the cue up against real wide belt sanders and shaped the whole cue by sanding all at once. A lathe to make one piece cues will be expensive. Like over $3500. I have built a few and sent them over to England. I really don't like the longer lathe as well as the normal Deluxe Cue Smith, because it has to use a variable speed motor so the headstock can move, and therefore does not have the torque in low speeds to tap joints and such. You have to rotatet he cue by hand when tapping.
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
 
cueturning.JPG

I want that machine. :D
 
cueman said:
Most house cues are made in very high production and they are made with various special machinery. I know one factory that has long lathes and cuts them with routers just about like we do two piece cues. They used to have long turning center that ran the cue up against real wide belt sanders and shaped the whole cue by sanding all at once. A lathe to make one piece cues will be expensive. Like over $3500. I have built a few and sent them over to England. I really don't like the longer lathe as well as the normal Deluxe Cue Smith, because it has to use a variable speed motor so the headstock can move, and therefore does not have the torque in low speeds to tap joints and such. You have to rotatet he cue by hand when tapping.
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
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Chris,
If your spindle bore was big enough, could you taper the butt end, then turn the cue around to taper the shaft.

Tracy
 
JoeyInCali said:
cueturning.JPG

I want that machine. :D
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I've been there, to see that baby work. It does throw up a serious dust storm. They have one for shafts, just like it. Those machines, put a few people out of work...JER
 
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
I've been there, to see that baby work. It does throw up a serious dust storm. They have one for shafts, just like it. Those machines, put a few people out of work...JER
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If you look, there are rollers shown in the pictures. They rotate to a position directly behind the cues, as a steady rest, on the left & right of the cutter...JER
 
ChopStick said:
Thanks. That's is a very interesting machine. From the looks of it they could do any style taper they wnated to.
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IF it's cnc, probably.
If it's only doing cones and house cues, it just needs half a degree of offset at most.
 
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
I've been there, to see that baby work. It does throw up a serious dust storm. They have one for shafts, just like it. Those machines, put a few people out of work...JER
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I like it when joey posts such huge pics:D
Dang that machine... wanna have a couple of those:D
 
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