This is a question for the cuebuilders/repairmen:
Last weekend, i bought a Meucci (95 Series) real cheap, that someone had hit over the table pretty hard, and had broken the entire joint collar (and rings) off of the cue, well i knew how i would repair it, drill and bore the forearm out, glue in a dowel and put the ring back on and switch the joint collar out to linen phenolic (implex is junk), well i got as far as putting in the dowel, (which had a shoulder and what wasn't in the cue was oversized, so i could turn it down to 5/8" and make sure it turned true) and when i used my cutoff tool (the part of the dowel that extended out from the cue was alot longer than it needed to be, giving myself a lot of room to work with) instead of taking an hour to face off what i didn't need, it just kinda exploded lol, not really, all i heard was SNAP, and everything from the dowel down snapped off, and when i looked at the dowel where i was cutting it off, it had a big chunk taken out ( even though i used my live center on the other end and went really slow) i really don't know what happened, but the question is, (after looking at the attached picture) should i take a piece of bird's eye and dowel it in and make up the length and stain it to match ( i was going to sand it down and restain/rewrap/refinish it anyway with a different color stain) or just do what i was going to do before and just make a shorter cue with points close to touching the joint rings???
Thanks
Jon
All Opinions are welcome from everybody... except for the really stupid ones... those we can do without...
Last weekend, i bought a Meucci (95 Series) real cheap, that someone had hit over the table pretty hard, and had broken the entire joint collar (and rings) off of the cue, well i knew how i would repair it, drill and bore the forearm out, glue in a dowel and put the ring back on and switch the joint collar out to linen phenolic (implex is junk), well i got as far as putting in the dowel, (which had a shoulder and what wasn't in the cue was oversized, so i could turn it down to 5/8" and make sure it turned true) and when i used my cutoff tool (the part of the dowel that extended out from the cue was alot longer than it needed to be, giving myself a lot of room to work with) instead of taking an hour to face off what i didn't need, it just kinda exploded lol, not really, all i heard was SNAP, and everything from the dowel down snapped off, and when i looked at the dowel where i was cutting it off, it had a big chunk taken out ( even though i used my live center on the other end and went really slow) i really don't know what happened, but the question is, (after looking at the attached picture) should i take a piece of bird's eye and dowel it in and make up the length and stain it to match ( i was going to sand it down and restain/rewrap/refinish it anyway with a different color stain) or just do what i was going to do before and just make a shorter cue with points close to touching the joint rings???
Thanks
Jon
All Opinions are welcome from everybody... except for the really stupid ones... those we can do without...
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