New website finally up!

Thanks Mike,
I have put more cue pictures on today and several shop tour pages are now done also. There is one picture on it of my new tapering machine. There are almost thirty pictures on the shop tour. It shows 8 of my lathes and turning machines, manual and cnc inlay machines, doweling machine, two saws, a ton of wood, finishing station and more.
Chris
www.hightowercues.com
 
cueman said:
For those who asked to be notified our new website
www.hightowercues.com is finally up and running. We plan to add to it as we finish cues and clean the shop a little before taking pictures for the shop tour. My shop is a real mess.
Chris
www.hightowercues.com

I notice unless I missed it, you don't have the shafts hanging. Do you hang your shafts and do you think it matters?
 
macguy said:
I notice unless I missed it, you don't have the shafts hanging. Do you hang your shafts and do you think it matters?
I have hung shafts in the past, but have not found it to keep shafts as straight as standing them up in my closed personal box during the last small passes. Keeping them out in the shop during those last small passes hanging has allow some to warp. So all my shafts are stood pretty much straight up in racks. My private box has small squares to hold the shafts straighter up that my larger racks. But they seem to stay straight or warp either way they are done. Some wood is just unstable and hanging them just puts off some of the warping they will do later. I would rather toss the shaft than have it lose it's stability once in the customers case laying on it's side.
 
cueman said:
I have hung shafts in the past, but have not found it to keep shafts as straight as standing them up in my closed personal box during the last small passes. Keeping them out in the shop during those last small passes hanging has allow some to warp. So all my shafts are stood pretty much straight up in racks. My private box has small squares to hold the shafts straighter up that my larger racks. But they seem to stay straight or warp either way they are done. Some wood is just unstable and hanging them just puts off some of the warping they will do later. I would rather toss the shaft than have it lose it's stability once in the customers case laying on it's side.

What you are saying may be true. I was turning some not so good shafts the other day for jump and break cues and was thinking to myself how straight they seemed to be between turns. (I mean real straight almost perfect). Do you feel this is due to the tension from hanging and they probably will go crooked in the future once the hanging tension is no longer there? You have me thinking now.
 
macguy said:
What you are saying may be true. I was turning some not so good shafts the other day for jump and break cues and was thinking to myself how straight they seemed to be between turns. (I mean real straight almost perfect). Do you feel this is due to the tension from hanging and they probably will go crooked in the future once the hanging tension is no longer there? You have me thinking now.
That seems to happen. If the wood is not stable and you are holding is straight by hanging it, then it will not always be hanging. Standing straight up in my racks is more along the lines of being in an case. more like what it will have to stay straight under later.
 
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