Parris visit

[winphenom]

My exact thoughts too Tetricky in your views about wood. Maple bends in a very strange prominent S way as compared to ash, which is why it really needs much much tender loving care to maintain all its life. And wood shaped in any way is fine so long as the wood itself is good and plays great. Only difference i feel is if its treated in the kiln way as i think the wood won't last that long in terms of playability.

[golferson123]

I had a couple of the parris brochures back in the late 90's which had all the info and remember the part about them being turned to a certain point then taken down by hand the rest of the way. What i found surprising was people leaping to the conclusion that the shafts in the pics were bought in, If you go to their new site and look at the video gallery the "made in london" video also has some shafts behind John in the corner as he's being interviewed.

So all this was based around a load of shafts in a corner out of a shop that makes snooker cues? What next? Beer mysteriously showing up in a brewry?

Does parris have a wood copy lathe

[j6uk]

iv been doing shaft work all this year. and i would cut it square, leave it. cut it again sqare but tapering down to say 20mm, leave it. then cut to an octigon shape, leave it.. some wood moves more than others but that process takes a few months.
now comes the craft work. cutting it spherical while keeping grain symmetry, making sure all the woods unique chevrons stay aligned. doing this alone on a jig with a handplane to oversized is the art of cue making for me. then doing it again with the splices and taking it down to its final playing cut, thats not just a hand made cue but a cue made by hand. imo
plenty of work cus theres plenty to learn

[LucLex3119]

Too many people concern themselves with how it was made and not, how it plays. It just makes no sense at all to believe Parris and his crew makes all his cues by hand. But finishing them by hand, yes I believe they do. Now the ultimate could be very different. That's a cue that is planed by hand from start to finish.

[LucLex3119]

Good post from someone who has obviously got some knowledge on cue making

[narl]

Does parris have a wood copy lathe

Well if they state that the shafts are turned to an overesize taper presumably they do have a lathe that does that.

[cally]

I doubt there's that many makers that churn out reasonable amounts of cues that don't use machines these days.

I'd say most makers machine to varying degree in the process... It's just to time consuming not to really.