amarillonarrow
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I'm not claiming to be a cuemaker, but someone who loves making cues for myself. I have never sold a cue, nor want to, but I did make a cue for a dead lady. She organized tournaments at a local VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Lodge and died unexpectedly. So, I made a cue with her name on it and made a wall rack to hold it where it was permanently mounted and no one could use it. I also put a plaque next to it in her honor.
Anyway, back to the reason for this post. I have made about 15 cues and am proud of about 8 or 9 of them. I use a Mickey Mouse lathe from Harbor Freight and just taper the cues by eyesight and a caliper. Being a dumb new cuemaker I figured that I would just use beautiful woods, mostly burl woods, for my cues since I don't have the tools and/or ability to do inlays. You experts out there probably can guess at all the problems I had using burl woods, especially buckeye, without stabilizing them. I'm at the point now where I would like to try a few inlays and am looking for a simple pantograph that can be used with a Dremel. I saw one recently posted but it sold quickly.
Please let me know if you, or someone you might know, can hook me up with a pantograph. Since my equipment is so basic I don't need a real fancy one. Funny thing is that I enjoy turning wood so much I would never even want a CNC machine that you basically just program, as I understand the concept.
Thanks for any help, and sorry for the length of this post. It's a bad habit of mine since I like writing.
Anyway, back to the reason for this post. I have made about 15 cues and am proud of about 8 or 9 of them. I use a Mickey Mouse lathe from Harbor Freight and just taper the cues by eyesight and a caliper. Being a dumb new cuemaker I figured that I would just use beautiful woods, mostly burl woods, for my cues since I don't have the tools and/or ability to do inlays. You experts out there probably can guess at all the problems I had using burl woods, especially buckeye, without stabilizing them. I'm at the point now where I would like to try a few inlays and am looking for a simple pantograph that can be used with a Dremel. I saw one recently posted but it sold quickly.
Please let me know if you, or someone you might know, can hook me up with a pantograph. Since my equipment is so basic I don't need a real fancy one. Funny thing is that I enjoy turning wood so much I would never even want a CNC machine that you basically just program, as I understand the concept.
Thanks for any help, and sorry for the length of this post. It's a bad habit of mine since I like writing.