short snooker cues?

[snookered_again]

right now I have a practice table in our kitchen , a 1960's brunswick that I rebuilt with better rubber, felt etc. It served us for a year or so. Its not ideal because we've been using only the shaft of our 3/4 length snooker cues.

Now I'm setting up a practice table in a place where the space is tight on the sides. the table is a 1908 Brunsick Balke Collender and I believe its 9 1/2 feet. my living room is about 13 feet wide. I can get more exact dimensions but basically the cues will be too long by about 6 inches when shooting inward from the side rails.

The threaded portion of both our cues is quite different and unique. they are different from one another as well. I have a machinist lathe and can do some machining, I do have some skills, but it still looks difficult to mate to due to internal and external thread patterns etc.

both of our cues have extensions, mine has one with an aluminum extension portion that can be extended so it is quite long, but the extensions won't mate with the end of the 3/4 shaft. the extension is designed to fit the butt not the 3/4 shaft.

what I'd like is a couple of cues that can be lengthened or shortened easily , about regular length but able to become about a foot shorter when needed.. with about a 10 mm tip, or maybe I shoudl simply provide snooker cues that are cut down?

I was thinking maybe I could use a mold release and some epoxy to copy the thread pattern with a molding process, and make a custom butt end that is shorter than original , perhaps extendable. I can see how it could work but it does not look easy.

before I go reinventing the wheel , is there a practical way to extend our 3/4 cue shafts by about 6 inches and leave the butt end off , or inexpensive extendable short cues meant for this purpose?

I'd like , if possible to be able to lengthen or shorten a regular cue quickly so exchanging it or screwing stuff together too often isn't necessary. alternatively I could make a cue rack on either side and try to provide an easy and quick way for a player to swap his cue for a shortened one between shots. What I'm looking for is a suggestion for an inexpensive and realistic way around the problem.

 

[billsey]

My snooker cue came with two extensions, both of which use the same pin as the one that breaks the cue down to 3/4 and 1/4. One of the extensions is around 6-8 inches long, which I use whenever playing, and the other is extendable and locks in the length with a twist to tighten or loosen it. I haven't had a need for a shorter version, but I believe I could use the 3/4 and the shorter extension to make a cue that's seveal inches shorter than the stock length (which is actually an inch or so shorter than a standard pool cue, for some reason).

 

[slim123]

right now I have a practice table in our kitchen , a 1960's brunswick that I rebuilt with better rubber, felt etc. It served us for a year or so. Its not ideal because we've been using only the shaft of our 3/4 length snooker cues.

Now I'm setting up a practice table in a place where the space is tight on the sides. the table is a 1908 Brunsick Balke Collender and I believe its 9 1/2 feet. my living room is about 13 feet wide. I can get more exact dimensions but basically the cues will be too long by about 6 inches when shooting inward from the side rails.

The threaded portion of both our cues is quite different and unique. they are different from one another as well. I have a machinist lathe and can do some machining, I do have some skills, but it still looks difficult to mate to due to internal and external thread patterns etc.

both of our cues have extensions, mine has one with an aluminum extension portion that can be extended so it is quite long, but the extensions won't mate with the end of the 3/4 shaft. the extension is designed to fit the butt not the 3/4 shaft.

what I'd like is a couple of cues that can be lengthened or shortened easily , about regular length but able to become about a foot shorter when needed.. with about a 10 mm tip, or maybe I shoudl simply provide snooker cues that are cut down?

I was thinking maybe I could use a mold release and some epoxy to copy the thread pattern with a molding process, and make a custom butt end that is shorter than original , perhaps extendable. I can see how it could work but it does not look easy.

before I go reinventing the wheel , is there a practical way to extend our 3/4 cue shafts by about 6 inches and leave the butt end off , or inexpensive extendable short cues meant for this purpose?

I'd like , if possible to be able to lengthen or shorten a regular cue quickly so exchanging it or screwing stuff together too often isn't necessary. alternatively I could make a cue rack on either side and try to provide an easy and quick way for a player to swap his cue for a shortened one between shots. What I'm looking for is a suggestion for an inexpensive and realistic way around the problem.

Don't waste your time, a bad idea, every player decides when and where. It usually doen't matter the equipment, even though we all prefer our own hand/ glove on the cue. That glove is a pussy thing , like the old saying if it feels good do it, i seal all shaft make or work on and they are slick and sealed from chalk etc.

If you are a player, you ar a player , the equipment helps, but in the heat of th moment , it doesn't matter