Points

[digdug]

What are knifed points ?

 

[Tommy-D]

> Knifed-in points are done like this. A long 90 degree groove is cut down the side of a forearm blank almost to the middle of the blank. A squared piece of wood is glued into the groove,then the whole piece is turned back to a tapered piece. This goes the same for veneer strips,it just adds more pieces to the assembly. Tommy D.

 

[cuesmith]

What are knifed points ?

I believe what you're refering to are point pockets cut on a CNC or pantograph and then the rounded points are sharpened with a razor knife to look like short spliced sharp points.

 

[JBCustomCues]

> Knifed-in points are done like this. A long 90 degree groove is cut down the side of a forearm blank almost to the middle of the blank. A squared piece of wood is glued into the groove,then the whole piece is turned back to a tapered piece. This goes the same for veneer strips,it just adds more pieces to the assembly. Tommy D.

Tommy,
the method that you described is known as half splice of short splice method. Knifing in points or inlays are cnc flat bottom inlays and you basicaly use a razor or exacto knife and cut in the tips of the pockest so they are not rounded.

 

[Tommy-D]

> I stand corrected then,but I've heard others refer to the 90 degree version as knifed in as well. No sweat,Tommy D.

 

[dave sutton]

I always thought knifed points were traditional. V groove point basically chiseled in by hand. No machinery

 

[digdug]

Thanks for the imput. I saw the term on Black Boars web site. I was trying to understand how it's done.