Shaft Grain Runout

Cgra2 · 2011-09-28T03:07:42+00:00

Well here I am just turned 70 and working on my first cue, thought it would be neat playing with one I built myself. I have a "plain jane" butt section out of walnut front and butt with a maple handle and cored with purple heart with my own window rings etc., pretty well finished. I do have quite a bit of background with lathes and have a 14 inch Clausing, small Index mill and wood lathe.. making lots of my tooling as I go.. shaft taper bar to fit on the Clausing, small boring bars, live threading burr driven with a die grinder, etc. and as you probably can guess, learning a lot by trial and error.. Question is about shaft grain runout.. of course I would like the growth rings to be perfectly straight but I guess thats not possible. So what is an accepted run out from one end of the shaft to the other for a "top quality" shaft. I did read on one shaft wood website that the grain run out of their AAAAA shafts was within .33 (5/16+) inches, just how good is this? and where is a source for some top quality shaft wood ?? Cgra

Thread starter Cgra2
Start date Sep 27, 2011

It's George

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Oct 2, 2011

I ordered three batches of shafts from Geoff and am not disappointed. Quality product with a fair price, quick shipping and great communication. All around a good deal.

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