My cue shop ........... finally.

IA8baller

IA8baller

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Thanks to everyone who answered some of my questions, sold me my equipment/supplies/instructional DVD's/etc.

I am getting very close to opening up my cue repair shop. I should have my permanent counter top put in by mid-week and I have been practicing quite a bit on tips, ferrules, shaft cleaning/reconditioning etc. I have one cue that has had three different ferrrules/tips put on it in the last week. My boys cues and a couple of my cues, and a few of my friends cues all have new ferrules and tips and have all been cleaned and reconditioned. I guess being layed off 10 days ago has given me plenty of time to practice. I had a little trail and error on a few things (especially which glues I wanted to use for what) but the instructional DVD's I watched were definitely a big help for a few helpful ideas/practices.

I'm going to stay with tips/ferrules/shaft cleaning and break/jump cues w/phenolic tips/ferrules for right now but will soon add joint work/ringwork/butt work to my available services as soon as I practice doing that enough I feel comfortable offering to do it to other people's cues. I realize that this will be a work in progress for quite some time and starting off slow doing the more basic and simple work for a while which suits me just fine. I'm not getting into it because I think I'm gonna make a pile of $$$, I've found I actually enjoy doing it and it gives me a hobby related to a sport I love so much that I can make a little extra spending $$$ with.

Here's a pic of my set-up in my garage/pool room/shop .....................

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I hope to have a long and prosperous venture and I again thank everyone for their help.
 
IA8baller said:
Thanks to everyone who answered some of my questions, sold me my equipment/supplies/instructional DVD's/etc.

Here's a pic of my set-up in my garage/pool room/shop .....................

P1010602.jpg


I hope to have a long and prosperous venture and I again thank everyone for their help.
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Good luck! You may want to consider adding some support under the center of the lathe though. It may not be readily apparent but with the lathe and mounting spanning that size opening you are going to get some bed deflection.

Again, good luck with your endeavors.

Regards,
Stoney
 
A little dust and wood chips and your complete.

The little magnetic tool holders are very handy.
 
Graciocues said:
A little dust and wood chips and your complete.

The little magnetic tool holders are very handy.
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The wood chips and dust were there, trust me, I just cleaned it up before I took the picture.:D
 
Congratulations for your new store.
Repairing cues is a phenomenal form of learning (ferrules, tips, woods, weight bolts, shaft categories,
linen and leather, products for clean......) and to be able building your custom cues in 1-2 years. I began repairing a friends cue,
here they are the first cues that I repaired does already a pair of years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KJrFrvE3k
 
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fiolledapool said:
Congratulations for your new store.
Repairing cues is a phenomenal form of learning (ferrules, tips, woods, weight bolts, shaft categories,
linen and leather, products for clean......) and to be able building your custom cues in 1-2 years. I began repairing a friends cue,
here they are the first cues that I repaired does already a pair of years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KJrFrvE3k
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Cool little video. Nice work on the broken butts.

I'm going to take some cheap house cues and add/remove some butts/joints/collars/rings a few times for practice just to get used to doing it and make mistakes and learn on those, not on customers cues. Replacing linen wraps and doing leather wraps is something I'd like to venture into soon as well.

I don't plan on building cues, just repairing. I might "assemble" some cues eventually out of some of the available blanks, etc that are out there nowadays, but for now and the forseeable future I'm going to stick to repairs until I'm damn good at it.
 
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