Wetting my feet in cue making, tapering question.

[RidgeRaider]

So, this year I decided to dive into cue repairs, refinishing, and now I am pretty much dedicated to eventually making my own cues.

The one thing that's been bending my mind a little, because it's hard to find a good video of it.. Tapering cue butts on a metal lathe with off-set tailstock. Do you just chuck a live center in the chuck, then put the off-set in the tailstock and full send that thing? I feel like that's a cue waiting to send itself mach jesus off the lathe.

I appreciate any words of advice, thanks.

 

[aphelps1]

A drive center in the chuck and a live center in the tailstock is generally the way it's done. The offset amount is not as big as you envision, so no mach Jesus.

 

[boogieman]

So, this year I decided to dive into cue repairs, refinishing, and now I am pretty much dedicated to eventually making my own cues.

The one thing that's been bending my mind a little, because it's hard to find a good video of it.. Tapering cue butts on a metal lathe with off-set tailstock. Do you just chuck a live center in the chuck, then put the off-set in the tailstock and full send that thing? I feel like that's a cue waiting to send itself mach jesus off the lathe.

I appreciate any words of advice, thanks.

This video does a pretty good job explaining one way to do it:

 

[DeeDeeCues]

There is no way that offsetting the tailstock will send the cue off the lathe. It isn't wobbling, you are only changing the alignment of the centers to the bed.

It's been done for a couple of hundred years even on metal.