Wetting my feet in cue making, tapering question.

RidgeRaider

RidgeRaider

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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.
 
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.
 
RidgeRaider said:
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.
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This video does a pretty good job explaining one way to do it:
 
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.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
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.
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I know in theory it shouldn't, but I am just a hobbyist wetting my feet in this, and anything turning that fast off-center just gives me the "this might go wrong" feeling haha.
 
jayman said:
I have often wondered what ever happened to you. It's great to have you my friend! My Adam collection borders on the ridicules actually. I like it that way of course. 🎱
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Well, I lost my daughter in 2012 after years of illness, so my wife and I needed to get away so we moved to Korea. I have been living here since 2014, I have no living family so there is nothing left for me in the States. I figured you collection of Adam cues had grown, like me you were always passionate about collecting them.

Well, I hope yours are healthy and doing well!👍
 
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