Trade offer to cuemakers for inlay work...

hunger strike

hunger strike

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I hand-make exotic wood triangles. They are bentwood-veneer triangles made the way the very first triangle ball "frames" were made in 1880. I have a thread on here under bentwood triangle, so you can see a photo (the one in the photo was my first one and has extra panels on it like the "Draillib" triangles circa 1920; construction depends on the wood.)
I would like to make a trade with someone, maybe a cuemaker who can do inlays. I want M.O.P squares surrounded by ebony squares on each side of my triangle, exactly like Kling pool table inlays. I would be happy with just two inlays on each side, so 6 inlays total. Anyone want to make a trade? I just gave one of these to Cuephoric so you can ask him about the quality. I make them so that they could pass as original antique triangles, but good enough to rack balls. Not a modern precision rack, but if you tap your table it is still convenient to get the balls quickly rolled to their tapped positions. Let's trade!!!!! We could even partner up to make matching cue and triangle packages.
 
What is it that you are trading?

Also, you'll probably have to do the inlay work before the triangle is assembled. Can you provide links to the inlays that you are trying to reproduce, and what size do you want them to be?
 
Trading a hand-made triangle for inlays on mine

The inlays would have to be done after the triangle is complete because the inlays would be M.O.P which is thicker than the veneer. I just want a simple inlay repeated six times, twice on each side of a racking triangle. They would be standard kling cabinet inlays; about 1/2" size M.O.P, with about 1/8" ebony border surrounding the pearl, a pearl square inside an ebony square. Nothing spectacular. Did you see my bentwood triangle thread? It has a photo of the first triangle I made. The photo shows Draillib style. The JMB&Balke 1880 style has veneers joined and blended on the corners. The third style, if the type of selected exotic veneer is not long enough to span a side or a panel, is where I cut the veneer along the line of a grain stripe and blend there.
 
I do CNC inlay work on cues. How would I hold a completed triangle on the CNC table using a vertical milling head?
 
I don't know, I am not an inlay man...

I have no idea about cnc. I know a table restorer who does inlays with pantograph, and a trophy shop who could do inlays with laser cutting. I have just started this project, so I don't know how I will get this done. Can't you make a jig to hold the triangle with the flat facing upward? Clamp it up, and it is just a thicker item..... not all cnc is made for cues, so I assumed this would not be a problem. Have you come up with anything for ideas on this yet? You could practice on a cheap triangle and go from there.......clamp it between blocks and lower your cnc table?
 
Diamond die tool.....

I do have some old brazilian rosewood veneer back in oklahoma that I am going to make a triangle with. With it, I was going to put an ivory diamond on each side, like an antique pool table rail. I had bought a set of 3 rail diamond cutting dies off ebay..... I have only ever seen 2 sets of these. 3 different diamond sizes. There is a pin in the middle of the diamond shaped blade, so I assume you drill a hole the size of the pin, then use the pin to line up and stabilize the die as you tap it, and if you didn't chip out deep enough the first time the pin sets you back in the exact place for another tap, and also keeps the depth even. So I am going to try this with the rosewood when I get back home. I am making the figured walnut triangles on the road....
 
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