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Sometimes when I cut my Nickel/Silver Rings, they come out thicker than the nominal size, Even with a sharp tool bit. A 1/32" Ring ends up around . 040" thick.
Is the Nickel/Silver getting too hot and hardening, then pushing the metal rather than cutting?
Why does the Nickel/Silver sometimes burr over into the Collars leaving a jagged edge?
Do you cuemakers cut the rings or is it sanded to final size in that
sanding machine with 2 sanding Drums? (Seen that machine once in R. Delerra's Shop.)
Thanks for helping.................alton cue capmaker :rolleyes:
 
How much of a pass are you cutting? Try cutting .005" or less on your last couple of passes.

Check your center height of your cutter also.

What material is surrounding the N/S ring? That will also make a difference.
 
CueCaps said:
Sometimes when I cut my Nickel/Silver Rings, they come out thicker than the nominal size, Even with a sharp tool bit. A 1/32" Ring ends up around . 040" thick.
Is the Nickel/Silver getting too hot and hardening, then pushing the metal rather than cutting?
Why does the Nickel/Silver sometimes burr over into the Collars leaving a jagged edge?
Do you cuemakers cut the rings or is it sanded to final size in that
sanding machine with 2 sanding Drums? (Seen that machine once in R. Delerra's Shop.)
Thanks for helping.................alton cue capmaker :rolleyes:
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As Ryan said, The tool needs to be sharp and at the proper height compared to the lathes center. Any time you are cutting material there will be push-off between the tooling and the material. You need to keep this at a minimum by keeping the ring as close as possible to the chuck or tale-stock. I usually under cut the metal rings because when you sand, your non-metal materials will sand at a much faster rate than the metal.

Dick
 
Hi Everyone! I am new to this forum and am the owner of Greg's Kues - my name is Greg Kucharski. In my experience with metal cutting of any kind a sharp radius tool will do a better job than a sharp pointed tool. I would suggest using the sharp radius tool on the Nickel Silver rings.

http://www.gregskues.com
Greg
 
Thanks everyone

Thanks Guys!!!
Making cue caps to match a Predator with N/S Ring in Collar.
Thanks for the replys.
 
I've had problems early on in the past with that, and pretty much solved It By what's been mentioned already. Good support to reduce pushoff, and small final cuts with a sharp tool. I Like to grind a fresh edge each time I'm going to cut metal rings in general. I got ahead of Myself 1 day last week, and tried turning a sterling ring with a tool edge that was'nt exactly fresh, because I figured it was a softer material, therefore was sharp enough. I figured wrong, and also figured out the hard way that I had'nt let the epoxy sit long enough, so I also heated the ring up and spun that sucker around one good time:eek: I have'nt spun any since one of My first with metal rings, so I guess sometimes I do learn lessons more then once;) :D Sometimes It's easy to get in too much of a rush when pressed on time. That's one lesson in it'self that always comes back around eventually.:o

Another thing Is I like to wrap them in phenolic anytime I can, I know every design does'nt work with that, but with a really sharp tool, I can just slightly undercut the metal, and get a clean edge against the phenolic.

Those rings You mention are very hard though, and that's probably the biggest reason I tend to shy away from using them whenever possible. There's other advantages to them I suppose, but they can be a pain to turn down unless everything is just right.

You look like your doing pretty sporty CueCaps, Your making some super nice looking JP's from I've seen. keep up the good work.:)

Greg
 
GregsKues said:
Hi Everyone! I am new to this forum and am the owner of Greg's Kues - my name is Greg Kucharski. In my experience with metal cutting of any kind a sharp radius tool will do a better job than a sharp pointed tool. I would suggest using the sharp radius tool on the Nickel Silver rings.

http://www.gregskues.com
Greg
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Welcome to the forum Sir:) seems We have something in common:D

Greg
 
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