Possible Cue Butt Straightening Device? (Too warped to turn down)

DDiabolico said:
How much does the joint lift up the table when rolled? Is it really warped or is it possible that it has been turned down unevenly?

A question to the experienced cuemakers. With older butts being a little thicker than what's standard nowadays, would it be viable to turn a warped butt down again, taking off the 'highs', therefore making it straight again?
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I sent a vid of it to Jacoby. He told me to send it out to him. He would fix it.
 
I've been playing with doing just that with a cheap Goodwill cue that had quite the wow. It had to go down something like 0.060" before the bit would cut all the way round, but it started fat enough that it still feels good. It started with a weird sponged stain job to try and make it look like figured wood, and turned out to be maple with a bit of birdseye. One of these days I'll put a finish and wrap on it to see if it is playable.
 
billsey said:
I've been playing with doing just that with a cheap Goodwill cue that had quite the wow. It had to go down something like 0.060" before the bit would cut all the way round, but it started fat enough that it still feels good. It started with a weird sponged stain job to try and make it look like figured wood, and turned out to be maple with a bit of birdseye. One of these days I'll put a finish and wrap on it to see if it is playable.
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Nice.
Good thing it didn't have Points.
 
A similar note in my mind and, being from a Navy family always living on the water I moved from up north/Colorado Springs and retired along the AK river, close to the Pueblo reservoir.

This man I met in our small town of 3,800, he found out I was the best player in Fremont county.
Because of that, HE wanted to hang and be cool/like me/tho I wasn't cool I was just me.

Hanging around criminals, made his actions were very similar to card players/pool player$ who are always trying to get in your pocket.

This man was a retired Supermax prison guard who heard I moved here, & tried to be my friend.
He'd been groomed/around inmates for 25 yr/Supermax Prison, similar to being in the Rack in Detroit in the 80's or in any place where you didn't have trust.

He had everything in life but the next thing.

He saw the boat I got, for my grandkids, and to be as good as me, in his WORLD he purchased a nice, small fishing boat with a good motor.
He had to have me over to show me his new/used boat, and when I looked it over, it was like the cue you have.

He purchased this boat knowing the lower unit had hit a rock, and BENT the lower unit 90 degrees.

I laughed silently knowing only to well, what was next.

One final note, we played pool ONE time, and he was thee only person since I began playing in 61-62 that would not play with rules/period.

That was very strange....now I only smile and acknowledge his presence when we cross paths.
 
Dave38 said:
you can believe all you want...BUT if there was a thing to correct warped butts......someone would have found it already. Are you a cuemaker? Woodworker(of a finer variety)? If you have no working knowledge of how wood behaves, and all the intricacies of wood behavior then it's easy to assume how to fix warped wood will be an easy fix, but then you would be making some incorrect assumptions. Pool cues are NOT built like old school wooden single piece golf clubs
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hahahahahaaha.................... so show me before and after pictures of a cue you have straightened....................... you have no idea about cue making.............. do you make deck chairs????
 
Wood always wants to move the way it wants. Old cues have more mileage and age so.. there are construction methods for current makers to use to fix moving. Number 1 is after you build a cue and it warps DO NOT SELL IT.
 
I’m confused. I asked the question and posed the device or idea to assist dewar ping a cue. I do know how they are made. I’ve been around the process and understand inlays as well full spliced butts.

It was an alley oop kind of thing hoping technology and technique has progress since the 20 passed years since I held a cue. Please don’t berate one another.

I’ve been in touch with Jacoby who’s going to lend a hand with my Schuler cue. Really great fellow! I’m quite appreciative.
 
koogz said:
I’m confused. I asked the question and posed the device or idea to assist dewar ping a cue. I do know how they are made. I’ve been around the process and understand inlays as well full spliced butts.

It was an alley oop kind of thing hoping technology and technique has progress since the 20 passed years since I held a cue. Please don’t berate one another.

I’ve been in touch with Jacoby who’s going to lend a hand with my Schuler cue. Really great fellow! I’m quite appreciative.
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Dave and Brandon great people and so is there staff. glad they will give you a hand. i suspect though that the problem is the "A" joint and will have to be replaced. they are more than capable of fixing this. as to your original idea, you would have to have an understanding of "why" it warped to understand that your idea probably will not work.
 
Wood can be bent with pressure and heat. So a butt can be straightened the same way. I have done it and have show a few other cuemakers how to do it. And yes they do stay straight over time.
 
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