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tlayne

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I find it very interesting in how they did things many years ago and this one I really didn't expect. I was in the process of changing the ferrule on a friend/customers cue and came across this screw on capped ferrule with a metal tenon. It kinda threw me for a loop, thought i would snap a couple pics and pass it on. My question is, where do I find one of these screw on ferrules? It is a pretty old Viking, the ferrule was losing shape because of a poor chalking technique. The ferrule seems very soft. If I cant get this kinda of close to factory ferrule, what should I do next? Thanks for your time.:confused:
 

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Looks like a pretty easy project , if you have a lathe, and caliper. .That way you could use some modern materials. ...Jim
 
Jim Baxter said:
Looks like a pretty easy project , if you have a lathe, and caliper. .That way you could use some modern materials. ...Jim
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I have a lathe and digitals caliphers. Please elaborate, not sure what your saying. I am wondering where I can get an old Viking ferrule? I don't want to change much, this guy is a bear to deal with just trying to sell him beer.
 
That Viking is at the oldest very late 1980's. They used to use a screw with no wood tenon at all before that. The short wood tenon was a major improvement. Later they went to wood threads.
 
cueman said:
That Viking is at the oldest very late 1980's. They used to use a screw with no wood tenon at all before that. The short wood tenon was a major improvement. Later they went to wood threads.
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Thank you for the information. I am learning as much as I can one day at a time. That old, huh? Just curious, havent had to do much of anything on newer Vikings, do they currently use wood threads? Thank you sir for your time.
 
The first and only time I found that same tenon on a friend's cue, was to use solid PVC, drill and tap, then formed the wood tenon part with a boring bar. I also had to replace the metal stud as it was loose, and had cracked the shaft slightly. and couldn't get the epoxy off of it enough, so I just used a piece of 10/24 threaded rod, I believe, and used a thin epoxy to glue it all back together. It is still going strong 3 years later.
Good luck,
Dave
 
Like I said...

Sheldon said:
Do the guy a favor and offer to replace the tenon with a wooden one.
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Like I said, this guy is very particular. A fellow AZer is sending me two out on Monday. Where can you get wood ones like that? Future reference. Thanks Sheldon
 
tlayne said:
I have a lathe and digitals caliphers. Please elaborate, not sure what your saying. I am wondering where I can get an old Viking ferrule? I don't want to change much, this guy is a bear to deal with just trying to sell him beer.
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You can only do what you can do. It is a easy job but if you can't get a matching material, you can't. I would not lose any sleep over it. You will never be able to charge for the repair what it is worth with the running around trying to do a perfect match.
 
If the guy is impossible to deal with, you might want to pass on the job to somebody with more experience. There really is no upside to you doing it. You do it and get it back to him, it's not like he is going to tell all his friends you did a great job. However, if he is not happy with it, he will certainly tell all of his friends.

I don't do repairs because I don't have the time or the knowledge to work on every kind of cue out there. I do have a couple regular customers that I will do some things for, but I don't even charge them.

I don't know how the guys that do repairs on a regular basis can deal with some of the people.

As for the wooden tenons, you just make them yourself. It should be in Chris's book and if not, I know it's on Joe's video.
 
Tell the picky guy to send it back to Viking for repair and save the both of you some grief.
Like Tony said ... some jobs should be passed on to someone else.

Willee
 
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Thanks guys for all the comments

Thanks guys for all the comments. I guess it will be fine either way. I will keep his old shitty ferrule, if he doesn't like what I do then we can screw his back on. I found a couple ferrules from JB, so Ill try it out and see what happens. He is a customer of mine at my bar, I dont think he is really that bad. Kinda funny actually. Its amazing how far a couple beers will get you. Joking, but anyways thanks again and appreciate all the feedback.

P.S. I gotta start somewhere....
 
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