Southwest Satin - Extension

Kentucky Rack Man

Kentucky Rack Man

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Looking for advice. Starting to enjoy my New Cue and not worried about resale as I have chosen it as my player. Recommendations for 8 inch extension. Where to, How to, Should I, Would like the design to compliment the cue. I am older dude so feel free to pick on me if you like as I can handle it. Lol.
 
Kentucky Rack Man said:
Looking for advice. Starting to enjoy my New Cue and not worried about resale as I have chosen it as my player. Recommendations for 8 inch extension. Where to, How to, Should I, Would like the design to compliment the cue. I am older dude so feel free to pick on me if you like as I can handle it. Lol.
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I hope I'm understanding your question properly, but if I were playing with a Southwest, I'd be looking for a mid extension for a few reasons. First, except for the tube style that slide down over the butt of the cue, I'm not aware of any rear extensions that are available for Southwests. Not saying they don't exist. I'm just saying I've never seen or heard of one. And if they do exist, I'd imagine it'd require some sort of modification under the bumper of your cue for the extension to screw into. I know you say you're not worried about resale. But if you can get the extension length you need without any modifications to the cue, I'd consider that a win.

As far as where to get one... I'd post something in the "Ask The Cue Maker" section and see what kind of responses you get. Heck, we might even find out that somebody actually does make a rear extension for Southwests that don't require any modifications. Crazier things have happened.

Take care and good luck.
 
Kentucky Rack Man said:
Looking for advice. Starting to enjoy my New Cue and not worried about resale as I have chosen it as my player. Recommendations for 8 inch extension. Where to, How to, Should I, Would like the design to compliment the cue. I am older dude so feel free to pick on me if you like as I can handle it. Lol.
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Contact Austin Hill on Facebook he used to work for southwest and makes satin extensions that you pop out rubber end and it slides right in and it matches. Not cheap though!! He lives in Vegas
 
I have only ever made one of those so far and it was kind of a proto-type, but it seemed to work well. Hopefully some time in the future I will build a batch of them as there is definitely a demand!
 
Having someone drill and tap a hole in the bottom of a SW is the last thing that should be done. With some SW cues its not possible due to the length and placement of the connecting screw used to joint the base and the grip as they call them. With some it is possible to get an inch or two of threads inside to install an extension bumper but it still shouldn't be done imo....
 
Old thread alert! Forget the below if Austin Hill makes a viable solution already.

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But, first of all, this should be in the Ask the Cuemaker section. I would trust their advice over non-cuemakers. Especially members like Ryan Theewen, Mike Webb or Sheldon Lebow.

But since it reads like you’re willing to take the one way trip…

My Satin has a dollop of glue protecting what I presume is a B-joint, but I believe all of it on mine is below a step in the counter bore. That step is about .460” from the top of the counterbore. On another cue of mine that uses the same SW bumper, I tapped that counterbore 0.440” deep with an M16x1.5 tap for the Predator QR extension. However, I think you really need at least 0.640” of counterbore so that that you’re into the full diameter of a flat-bottom tap. Mine has the first two and half threads (1.5mm x 2 1/2) as lead in. So maybe you can’t tap for a QR without milling out some glue. No idea if there’s 0.200” of glue before hitting the connecting screw. Or maybe you’d forgo the glue milling and tap what you can and modify the QR. Or a machinist (cuemaker) can cut the threads on his lathe with a special internal zero-clearance threading bit.

I wouldn’t recommend it. But maybe a cuemaker has already done it or some other solution.
 
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