Short Splice Question

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bell

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I see all these house cues stacked up in the corner of local pubs. These are all one piece short splice cues. This construction allegedly produces the most solid hit but these are the cheapest of cues. I assume the points are not decals and the cues are really two pieces of wood spliced and glued togther, the heavier wood at the butt for balance.

My question is how do they cut that splice? It seems like a delicate operation cutting a "v" and then turning the piece 90 degrees and cutting another v and then getting a perfect mate with the forearm. How do they do that?
 
bell said:
I see all these house cues stacked up in the corner of local pubs. These are all one piece short splice cues. This construction allegedly produces the most solid hit but these are the cheapest of cues. I assume the points are not decals and the cues are really two pieces of wood spliced and glued togther, the heavier wood at the butt for balance.

My question is how do they cut that splice? It seems like a delicate operation cutting a "v" and then turning the piece 90 degrees and cutting another v and then getting a perfect mate with the forearm. How do they do that?
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Actually, those are full spliced cues. It is not hard building a full splice cue but to be economical you need some dedicated machinery. You need a band saw or table saw or a side cutting mill blade for cutting the female piece of the cue and you need a mill or router setup to cut the male piece. These, of coarse, need to be set at the same angles. This is why you should have dedicated machinery so that once your jigs are properly set they don't need to be changed.

Full splice have a great amount of gluing area so cheaper glues can be used with no worry of the glue joint coming apart. House cues don't need to worry about their points being even so not nearly as much care needs to be to be taken while being constructed. The down side is that much more wood is needed to make that type of joint but since very cheap woods are usually used it doesn't hurt as badly

Dick
 
Full Splice

bell said:
My question is how do they cut that splice? It seems like a delicate operation cutting a "v" and then turning the piece 90 degrees and cutting another v and then getting a perfect mate with the forearm. How do they do that?
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As others have said, it's a full-splice.

Here are photos from Arnot Wadsworth's site on his full-splice before the two woods are joined:

http://www.arnotq.com/pages/21/21.html

And these are photos of Murray Tucker's full-splice in action.

http://www.murraytucker.com/full splice.htm


Fred
 
what would be better, cutting the prong while it's square or after rounding it up?
 
JoeyInCali said:
:)
You missed a spot. :D
I'll take it. :)
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Yeah.......the points ain't sharp either.

jazztulip5.jpg
 
hadjcues said:
what would be better, cutting the prong while it's square or after rounding it up?
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Depends. I have a new fixture in the works. Any future splices will be cut from the square. I will also have the ability to do veneers.
 
Thanks

Wow, now I see how they do that. Special thanks to Tucker for the great pics and thanks to AZ for the great forum.

Jay in LA
 
Murray Tucker said:
Depends. I have a new fixture in the works. Any future splices will be cut from the square. I will also have the ability to do veneers.
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Thanks Murray... would that be with both ends having sharp points?:rolleyes:
 
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