using ivory for a small diameter ferrule?

justaguy

justaguy

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hullo,
i have a buddy who has fallen in love with a shaft with a 10 mm tip, and he wants me to put an ivory ferrule on it. my fear is that will make the sidewalls too thin, anyone have any experience they could share? i do have undrilled ivory blanks, so i *could* drill it and tap it to a smaller than standard tenon, but that brings it's own issues...

thanks for any insight you might have, i dont have any experience with ivory...

seth
 
Seth,

Ten years ago I had a player ask me to build him a 10mm shaft with an ivory ferrule. It is ridiculously thin.

He is in my shop about every few month to change his tip and pad.

Last week I changed his ferrule for the first time. It never cracked. It was hour glassed from bad chalking wear and tear.

I used a .250 tenon with no threading.

i never thread my ferrules. No history of any failure and I have done at least one per week for the past 14 years. Almost all ferrules brought to me for repair because of a crack are threaded. Not just ivory, all materials.

When a customer brings a cue to me like that I install a new .312 tenon on normal size shafts and all ferrules I install are through hole.

JMO,

Rick
 
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