More CAD to Cue.. Steve Klein

[classiccues]

One of the pleasures I take in getting cues made is I get to do some cad layouts and design some inlays. Now the cameo cue Steve and I created, went through a lot of different layouts and revisions. No different than when I was designing extrusion tooling.

You need to have a good design eye, and an ability to invision the layout at diffrerent sizes. Working with Steve, we had a lot of back and forth discussion and from doing this professionally for a long time I knew what he needed. Once you get the cutter sizes and depths, you need to consider the actual range of the tool in all your decisions. This is a simple inlay, and it takes time. I printed it out in color and wrapped it around my cue many times.

So when other cuemakers come up with more elaborate inlays you can bet they do spend a lot of time "tweaking". Luckily, I like simple cues that follow in the tradition of George and Gus, so I don't feel like doing anything extravagent. (but I have a couple) :wink:

Here is the cameo layout, and the cameo cue.

JV

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Very cool.

 

[ga9ball]

Klein

Joe, very nice collaboration from you and Steve! Looking forward to more of your projects!

 

[poolrod]

Very nice work, beautiful cue.

 

[Realizm]

Looks sweet . Who came up with the inlay style ?

 

[Kevin Lindstrom]

You need to fillet a few of those lines on the drawing. LOL

What a great design.

Kevin

 

[classiccues]

The great thing is Steve can e-mail me and say that the wall in the paddle of the prop is to thin and I broke it. Lets thicken that up, in a few seconds I can change it, e-mail him the file and he is cutting a new one in less than 5 minutes. So technology is hard at work.

JV

 

[classiccues]

Not all designs make it to a cue.. this is what happens when I am on meds.. Obviously still in progress..

JV

 

[putt-putt44]

Designing Joe,,,,,,,,,,,

Very unique Joe,,,!!

Alan Ende

 

[classiccues]

Here is a version of the cameo that is being tweaked for future use...

JV

 

[Spimp13]

Remind me to hire you if I am going to look to have a big, unique cue made. I am not good at coming up with ideas lol...very cool stuff!

 

[cutter]

More CAD

Working with someone that is Autocad savy is a cuemakers dream
come true. Once Joe and I got on the same page with cutter diameters and lengths of cuts he could let his imagination run wild. If memory serves me correct, those cameo's underwent at least 4 cad revisions.
Including the propellors I had to write 8 pocketing programs and 2 parts cutting programs. 4 different sizes of micro cutting tools are used. The .4mm gold dots are a another story. Joe's name was muttered in vane a few times as I was installing them. Even with mag glasses and jewelers twissors, about 1 out of 4 initailly ended up on the floor. We joked about panning the office carpet for gold.

 

[JAMSGOLF]

Joe and Steve,

These are the kind of threads I thoroughly enjoy! Seeing the "behind the scenes" stuff that make a cue possible...or impossible depending on the "meds" taken!