Need some help

[CocoboloCowboy]

Dave your Cues are beautiful, your Ring work is Beautiful, but if a person with no skill owns one they still will not run many balls with your 5K Cue

JMHO

 

[BarenbruggeCues]

Dave your Cues are beautiful, your Ring work is Beautiful, but if a person with no skill owns one they still will not run many balls with your 5K Cue

JMHO

Give it up.
You're barking up the wrong tree.

Just because you have no desire (or possibly the ability) to not own one of my cues does not make you a bad person.
It's individuals like you that have no understanding of the market and try to belittle someone who is doing well in the custom market that is not good for the industry as a whole.
Rising water raises ALL boats.
It is also individuals such as yourself that pretends to have knowledge about building or constructing said instruments that screw with a new persons mind on what exactly is right or wrong.
Please stay out of this section of the forum UNLESS you have something of substance to add which I'm sure you have none.

 

[cueman]

Shim the bit up to exact center height and the tip will disappear.
Lock the thumb screw down on the back of your carriage and it will face off without moving.
Watch the DVD that came with your machine.

 

[epoxypop]

Never Own One, but spent Two Years in Apprenticeship to be Prototype Machinist, did notably short runs. Running Lathes, Mills, Grinding Tool, Sharpening Drills, etc. Decide I liked being outdoors more than in side a building stand confront of a machine 8 hours or more a day.

Running a Lathe is not NURO SURGERY, or Rocket Science.

Yes, but Sir your replies to this thread are not constructive or even help , Unless you can ad something helpful to the Op's thread why say anything

 

[bbb]

last i saw
this thead is " ASK THE CUEMAKER"
if you are not a cuemaker
noone is asking you anything so dont respond
jmho
for the record
i am not a cuemaker

 

[Scott44]

Since you are new to cue lathes, one thing you need to keep in mind; keep your tooling SHARP. Cutting off leather tips or cutting down a tenon, sharp tooling makes this easier and more accurate.

What do you use to sharpen your tooling? Will a knife whetstone work?

 

[Kim Bye]

What do you use to sharpen your tooling? Will a knife whetstone work?

If you use HSS tools, you can sharpen those on a grinder with the correct wheel. Having said that sharpening HSS correctly is a skill in itself..
Personally I use solid carbide 99% of the time.
Just make sure you have the right type of turning tool and inserts. SCLCR holders works great for most general turning, just make sure you get polished positive rake inserts with the smallest radius possible, those have the 02 designation at the end of the model number. As for carbide tools in general I personally think that's the only way to go for all types of tools we use, like drills, center drills, reamers, slitting saws and boring bars.
I even sell carbide slitting saws made to my specs..