uneven points in full splice

juspooln

juspooln

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I have been messing around with this cue all day and it' s about to drive me NUTS I've built a few half splice cue's and had no problem getting points even I bought this cue a few months back and when I got it all of the points were off with one being about 5/8 shorter than the longest but it was way over sized so I figured no problem but I can only seem to get three dead with one short about a 1/2 so I quit and dipped it and going to let us rest a couple weeks I'm at.960 so I still got room so I just wanted to run this by every one and make sure this is the right solution reface joint end put it between centers with steady rest light pressure on tailstock with short point up tap add pressure re taper repeat if necessary thanks in advance for your help,Bill
 
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if you have one high point you should have 1 low point on the opposite side. your solution is to face the joint. put a piece of tape on the short point. chuck up on the tape and that should move it over a hair. recenter joint and then a small pass repeat until perfect. get them as close as possible then hand sand with 220 to get them super perfect.
 
I go along with Dave and keep in mind it's a learning process and do'nt cut too much at one time.

Mario
 
reface joint end put it between centers with steady rest light pressure on tailstock with short point up tap add pressure re taper repeat if necessary thanks in advance for your help,Bill[/QUOTE]

Refacing the joint surface won't change anything. If you have a shot point, shim the cue, so that the longest point will be cut & the short one will not. We are talking only a few thousands...JER
 
Points, if correctly cut, can be made so that all will be the same length but this is only if they are correctly cut to start with. If three are the same length and one is out then the parts were cut incorrectly and perfection will never be attained. Bumping can only bring opposing points into correlation. The best you can do with this cue is to make the opposing points even which would make them about a .250 shorter than the other two. You could do it this way and then scrape the two longer ones to make them a little shorter but when doing it this way the ones being scraped will be a little blunter.

Dick
 
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
reface joint end put it between centers with steady rest light pressure on tailstock with short point up tap add pressure re taper repeat if necessary thanks in advance for your help,Bill
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Refacing the joint surface won't change anything. If you have a shot point, shim the cue, so that the longest point will be cut & the short one will not. We are talking only a few thousands...JER[/QUOTE]

I'm working on a converted mid sized cue smith which is almost like the old full size I'm refacing the old center off then dead center on butt steady rest to re drill to newtaper with tail stock because I previously shimmed the old center over a few small passes and could not get all of them close enough
 
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dave sutton said:
if you have one high point you should have 1 low point on the opposite side. your solution is to face the joint. put a piece of tape on the short point. chuck up on the tape and that should move it over a hair. recenter joint and then a small pass repeat until perfect. get them as close as possible then hand sand with 220 to get them super perfect.
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haven't thought about tape before but with this problem I have 3 points within .064 and one .790 shorter than the longest and the longest is beside the shortest would moving the butt end over any in this case help
 
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juspooln said:
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haven't thought about tape before but with this problem I have 3 points within .064 and one .790 shorter than the longest and the longest is beside the shortest would moving the butt end over any in this case help
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I think Dick had the right answer. Might be that one channel in the front
wasn't cut as deeply as the other three - or some similar problem that
can not be overcome now.
Moving the back end instead of the front does the same thing, only less.

Was this a house cue or a sneaky butt blank?

Dale
 
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