what kind of wood?

[rhncue]

Oh! I forgot. There is one other person who uses my equipment on occasions.

Dick

 

[mortuarymike-nv]

I was in my shop last night and my helper brought in a shaft from someone he plays leagues with. The guy wanted a new ferrule and tip. I thought this was a perfect chance formy helper kid to get some practice. He did most of the work, but i watched every step. The original ferrule was loose, so i started twisting it with some pliers and with near zero effort, the tennon twisted off. No biggie. I drilled and bored the shaft out to .280 and had my helper turn down a tenon from an old house cue shaft i have laying around. I know all this is day to day stuff, but its his first try. Anyways, we epoxy the new tenon in there, and install the new ferrule. All is good. We wait for a half hour or so for the 5 minute epoxy to dry, and he starts to trim the ferrule to size, and almost as soon as the tool hit the ferrule, the end of the shaft disintegrated. I was pretty surprised. He didnt do anything wrong and felt terrible. I looked at the pieces of wood and they were very very brittle. Im pretty sure this was a cheap import cue. Im not an experienced cue maker, but ive done tips and some repairs for years, and ive never seen wood like this. It couldnt be maple, or at least not any maple ive ever seen. It had the look of maple, but it broke apart like particle board. Obviously, we felt bad, but i really dont believe it was our fault. Any ideas what kind of wood that was? From now on, i will refuse to work on that kind of wood.

Joe

hey joe happy new year
the wood is mersawa
still needing mandrel pm me your e mail add
mike

 

[BHQ]

I heard you have someone who organizes your cue stuff
on an regular basis.

Dale

LOL
she's been banned
i now have retinal scan security system on the door
it only accepts blind in one eye colorblind eyes

 

[BHQ]

Oh! I forgot. There is one other person who uses my equipment on occasions.

Dick

i hope you charge him accordingly
the going rate should be at least one cheese conie per half hour of usage

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

Its feast or famine where I am. If I were to turn down cue work because of
inexpensive cues, I'd never turn a chuck.

My bad experience was a favor for a guy. He liked the Molson Canadian Beer promo cues. The ones with the plastic ferrules with screw in tips. Nylon wraps that are installed with no glue. That kind, the ones that fall apart if you look at them too hard.

All others are fair game.

 

[jecues]

I could use a helper. I need someone to do finish work for me. I have toyed with the idea of having a very good repairman do the finishing for me.