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Originally Posted by j6uk View Postafter iv tested any cue i make and i think it will make a decent playing then i'll be happy to let it go, otherwise it goes in the fire
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Originally Posted by narl View Post
Then I roll and hammer some lead into a dowell shape, tap it into the hole and block off the hole with a piece of hardwood dowell. A long and fiddly process that can easily go wrong so I will be buying a lathe sometime in the spring and then it will be possible for me to make some jointed cues and mini butts and the like as well.
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Originally Posted by Rifle View PostYou could use a tool to make a set size birth and drop in a pre-shaped weight such as the shaft of a dense steel bolt, something with plenty of carbon in its make up. Inevitably, the weight would be longer because it's not lead, but I can't see that affecting playing unless lead has less ping that steel? Maybe it does?
It can take me two hours to drill that hole, stopping to check that everything is straight every 1/4 of a inch. Pay myself £10 an hour and that's £20 just to drill a hole, so if I billed a customer the same way that a garage bills for a service and itemise eveything that's been done my cues would cost the same as a Parris, but without his reputation I wouldn't have any takers.
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this is a cue from our own cue collector and nice player garysnooker
this hornbeam was in a bit of a state in the corner of his snooker room. it was 15oz with no weight, had no ferrule or tip, not straight, lumpy, and its splices had opened up
anyway its been ferruled, debumped, weighted and re-spliced so its coming on nicely
Last edited by j6uk; 6 February 2015, 01:37 PM.
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