This hurts my feelings
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I had that happen on the very last pass. Unfortunately, there was no saving it. I had the wood mounted in a collet and it migrated out. The router cut about 3/8" into it in a split second. The whole butt sleeve had to be replaced. The original was some beautiful walnut burl.
I don't know your background. You may want to look at 'bottom up' machining and 'top down' machining and choose the direction of travel you want to do your cutting in accordingly. For metals, bottom up is usually best. For wood, top down is usually better, especially for irregular grain.
Darcy...... For the inexperienced:embarrassed2: (speaking for MYSELF solely) can you explain what actually happened and possibly WHY it happened ??
To me it looks like maybe the router took a chunk out of the handle wood and possibly bent the metal trim ring, but being as inexperienced as I am, I am not sure that is what happened.
To me it looks like maybe the router took a chunk out of the handle wood and possibly bent the metal trim ring, but being as inexperienced as I am, I am not sure that is what happened.
Hey lee
I can only guess that there was a small void in the redwood that got exposed when it was turned to that diameter.
The ring def got pushed when there was no support from the redwood.
I re glued the ring back and filled the void.
Will take the pass tonight and see what happens.
This type of thing is unfortunate, but also unforseeable
To bad it didn't show up on the first pass, or when turning round from square
Hey lee
I can only guess that there was a small void in the redwood that got exposed when it was turned to that diameter.
The ring def got pushed when there was no support from the redwood.
I re glued the ring back and filled the void.
Will take the pass tonight and see what happens.
This type of thing is unfortunate, but also unforseeable
To bad it didn't show up on the first pass, or when turning round from square
Cut it and reface the ends. Face off the redwood until the void is gone. Make up the length with a slightly longer butt cap or sleeve or thicker rings, whatever is most appropriate given where the damage/void happened. Reassemble as accurately as possible given the cue was so close to final size.
Just my 2 cents.
That's plan "b"
I am guessing that everything is cored and glued already so my question is how would you get it back apart? I've been wondering this for awhile on all the A joint repairs that I see on here. I know heat works good but I don't see anyway to get heat into the glue without damaging the wood.
Sorry for taking a left turn in you're thread.
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It's just like a pin repair.
Run the forea through the bandsaw at the a joint
Remove both halfs of the connecting screw
Bore, plug, re drill and tap
Insert a new connecting screw and re attach
Hopefully the handle and forearm line up pretty good, because there won't be a lot of meat left on the bone to re taper the butt
Repair
That turned out great. Love the cue. Very cool looking wood combination.
That turned out great. Love the cue. Very cool looking wood combination.
Beautiful !
