Here is a video that shows the cue manufacturing process that McDermott uses.
How McDermott makes cues
- Thread starter Bob Jewett
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Seen it worth watching, big faculty.
Only big factory i've ever been in was the JC Potter sausage factory in Durant, Ok. When they talk about seeing 'how the sausage is made', well, i have. It ain't pretty but i still love it. BTW, their motto is officially 'Potter packs the Flavor' but un-officially its 'We put in everything but the squeal'. 
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I love factories. when we used to travel in our RV we always visited interesting factories if they had tours. More then what they do, it is the machines that impress me. I was at a door plant and wood went in one end and a finished door came out the other. Who the hell invents these machines.Only big factory i've ever been in was the JC Potter sausage factory in Durant, Ok. When they talk about seeing 'how the sausage is made', well, i have. It ain't pretty but i still love it. BTW, their motto is officially 'Potter packs the Flavor' but un-officially its 'We put in everything but the squeal'.
I was at a woodworkers show in Atlanta and they had machines on display with price tags in the millions on them like we were in Walmart. Once in Scotland I got a tour of a Bagpipe shop. It had been in business for like 600 years. Some of the tools they were still using were hundreds of years old.
Thanks Bob
I loved the way they banded the tip with a rubber band.
Who needs those stupid tipping tools
I loved the way they banded the tip with a rubber band.
Who needs those stupid tipping tools
middleofnowhere
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Was in England and visited a cue shop that was in business several hundred years. I forget the name, I think the name started with a P. Lot of hand done work. They said I could order a cue and they would ship it to me. In the US. I don't play snooker but I wish I had ordered one just to have it.
Greg M
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Peradon. I use one of their custom cues for English pool. Great company. They're the oldest cue makers in the world.
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That's it.
Greg M
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Thinking of ordering from them sometime down the line? Their cues are a little on the expensive side as far as the average price of a snooker cue is concerned, but you can't really fault the quality.
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Explain?
You can work it out yourself. Go investigate a "full splice" cue? I have a custom cue maker that does not use a CNC machine. Everything, except the lathe one one other is handmade. I'll go this way.
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The dreaded anti-cnc thread. With all due respect, while I prefer full spliced butts myself they're not really very difficult to build if you know what you're doing. I won't even bother with your CNC comment.
I do not want to argue with you. I will stick to the old hand made cues instead of the automated cue builders. Have it your way.
What's the difference between a full splice and a single dowel with a commensurate bolt? Say you 4 pointed two contrasting maple sections and used a weight bolt; any difference?
I have one of their mid-priced cues that I bought sometime in the nineties. Through about 2014 I used it about twice a week and since then more like 5 or 6 times a week. I don't baby it - just reasonable care. In all that time, the finish still looks like it did when it was brand new. In the video they called the finish "incredably durable". I couldn't agree more.