Bluehammer
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Anyone ever do a wrap less cue with a stippled grip? I’m thinking like what you have on a pistol. I think that could feel real nice.
Stippled grip
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Can you do that on a wood handle?
I have friends that did their own stippling on their grip frames and grips. I have a Bisley frame for a Blackhawk that a friend stippled and reblued, along with a set of grips he did for that frame to match. I'm a big fan of either stippling or checkering on a handgun grip, especially on a target gun. Never really thought about it for a pool cue though.
It's a simple enough process on wood, just get something hard, sharp, and semi jagged, and tap that into the wood surface over and over and over. Patience is the key and learn a consistent way to tap with your mallet or hammer.
Sounds like a good thing to try on an inexpensive break cue for proof of concept.
It's a simple enough process on wood, just get something hard, sharp, and semi jagged, and tap that into the wood surface over and over and over. Patience is the key and learn a consistent way to tap with your mallet or hammer.
Sounds like a good thing to try on an inexpensive break cue for proof of concept.
Kinda the same, kinda the opposite.
It is pretty lame. There's a reason no we don't see it on many cues.
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I’m thinking of doing it on a cue i have. Wouldn’t want to do it by hand though. I’d need a lathe.
Stippling basically doesn't work on wood. The last I knew you could get checkering files from Brownells. I bought a twenty line per inch and thirty line per inch for about twenty bucks apiece in the nineties. The checkering files are just for layout you will need a riffling file or three too and to do a decent job you have to do one line at a time, by hand. Not a task a lathe lends itself to well. A metal lathe that could cut threads would be needed and it would still be a royal pain.
I have seen cheap house cues that were lightly checkered. No name on them that I recall. Finding one of these and deepening the grooves with a riffling file would probably be the cheapest way to test the idea.
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I have seen cheap house cues that were lightly checkered. No name on them that I recall. Finding one of these and deepening the grooves with a riffling file would probably be the cheapest way to test the idea.
Hu
i've seen such stippled grips on some russian pyramid cues , like on these pics :
but, IMHO, when it comes to the result (aka confort & efficience of the grip) , i would suggest you to add a textured carom grip on a wraplesss cue. It works way better and it's removable.
but, IMHO, when it comes to the result (aka confort & efficience of the grip) , i would suggest you to add a textured carom grip on a wraplesss cue. It works way better and it's removable.
I like Predator’s version of the Pachmayr grip.
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See, I like the look of the top (brown) cue. Just wonder how it would feel playing. It add texture and brings out the wood color without hiding it.i've seen such stippled grips on some russian pyramid cues , like on these pics :
but, IMHO, when it comes to the result (aka confort & efficience of the grip) , i would suggest you to add a textured carom grip on a wraplesss cue. It works way better and it's removable.
Bluehammer
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I would politely disagree, Stippling works on wood just fine. Look any wood stock on a rifle or shotgun. This is way more abuse than any pool cue would get IMO.
I have never seen a stippled gun stock. I have made stippling tools and stippled metal. Tried stippling wood, it didn't work well so fortunately it was just scrap wood. I do think you are confusing stippling with checkering. A world different in both the process and result. Checkering is cut in, stippling hammered in.
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smiling_Hans
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I've been having 4 day sessions for 3 hours every week. Going on my 2nd week and pretty much burnt out but have learned everything I need to know about my new Mezz cue and how it shoots and what it likes and not like.
One thing I notice is my elbow and hands get "chopped up", for the lack of a better description, from the stiffness.
I am also interested in some grips that will help relieve the vibration.
It could also be my new wrapless break cue that is destroying my hands.
One thing I notice is my elbow and hands get "chopped up", for the lack of a better description, from the stiffness.
I am also interested in some grips that will help relieve the vibration.
It could also be my new wrapless break cue that is destroying my hands.
smiling_Hans
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Love the professional equipment.
DeeDeeCues
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There are a ton of stippled gun stocks, nobody is confusing it with checkering. Do an image search.
Did an image and deeper search. Have to say that after seeing thousands of rifles and shotguns I have never seen one stippled. Also, there doesn't seem to be anything like metal stippling for wood. Called the same thing, can't argue that, but stippling in the same manner as metal, hitting the wood at a fairly shallow angle, doesn't appear to be done. I found people that hit straight down on polymer too.
So I agree, there is something called stippling done to wood sometimes. It is a stamping process. It isn't the same process as stippling done to metal which indeed doesn't work well or look good done to wood.
Brownell's wood stippling tools: https://www.brownells.com/tools-cleaning/gun-tools/stock-tools/wood-stippling-punches/
I have seen light colored one piece house cues with a light diamond pattern on them. Finding one of these and deepening the grooves with a riffling file would give a checkered surface or something close to play before trying to checker a nicer cue. Looks like a side project while watching TV. I have reloaded many thousands of rounds of rifle ammo with inline dies like that. A few careful inspections along the way and it is safe. Just have to have the right toys.
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When in college I learned to checker gun stocks by hand. with checkering tools. You would layout a boarder on the grip and forearm and then cut it in. Than you remove the wood inside the boarder untill all lines were peaked. It was tedious work. I have seen one checkered pool cue, in fact I think I started a thread on this board many years ago about it.
The stippling that I have seen and its much the way you have described it was trench art. Bored soldiers in the trenches would take empty shell casings, usually the large ones and stipple those to create pictures. I believe I have one in storage that was handed down to me from my Grandpa.