joss shafts and shaft turning

[CrsSim]

i work in a retail store, and our brunswick rep was in talking about how the cues for the centenial package are made by joss.
he went on to give us his sales pitch on them and said that the shafts are cut and then left outside to warp and then cut again and so on and so forth until the warp is cut out of them making them more warp resistant in the long run.
i have since had a few of these cues returned to my store with warps in the shafts so i know it's not the miracle system he made it out to be, but is this type of wood treatment common for shafts? mostly i've heard of cuemakers cutting blanks a little at a time and allowing them to sit in their shops in between cuts. what are some of your takes on shaft turning processes?


-chris

 

[Murray Tucker]

i work in a retail store, and our brunswick rep was in talking about how the cues for the centenial package are made by joss.
he went on to give us his sales pitch on them and said that the shafts are cut and then left outside to warp and then cut again and so on and so forth until the warp is cut out of them making them more warp resistant in the long run.
i have since had a few of these cues returned to my store with warps in the shafts so i know it's not the miracle system he made it out to be, but is this type of wood treatment common for shafts? mostly i've heard of cuemakers cutting blanks a little at a time and allowing them to sit in their shops in between cuts. what are some of your takes on shaft turning processes?


-chris

I cut mine 6 times. You can see a picture of my river of shaft wood (ala Dieckman) here http://www.murraytucker.com/wood.htm. The shafts on the left are first turn, next to those are the second turn and so on until you get to the fifth turn shafts on the right. There are about 40 first turn shafts hanging and I keep 12 each of the others. When I take a shaft off the right to take the final pass then I turn one each of the others so that I always have 12 properly seasoned shafts ready at all times. I also treat the second and fifth turn shafts with Nelsonite.