My workshop

[vmax4steve]

Well it plays very well, and once again those cheap chinese tips are excellent, loads of grip and feel from the get go. Can't believe I bought a hundred for a tenner, absolute bargain.

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[vmax4steve]

Looks very good Steve nice shaft too. Great work.

Thanks, giving it a bash on the table at lunchtime.

[justf]

Some better pics of the one piece ash with tigerwood butt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vmax4steve/shares/7837B5

Looks very good Steve nice shaft too. Great work.

[vmax4steve]

Some better pics of the one piece ash with tigerwood butt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vmax4steve/shares/7837B5

[vmax4steve]

looks like some good dims for those cues steve, and reaching that simply by hand eye would be a very secure feeling

At each stage of the process after planing each shaft all the way around I look down the shaft to see where it's going. I expect you do the same, I expect we all do the same, and a straight taper from 30mm to 9/10mm has to be around those dimensions. Using a long bed no: 7 will produce that same straight taper, then get the smaller planes out if you feel a need to hone the shaft at differing pionts for a different feel, but whose feel, yours or the potential customer ?

[Ninja.cues]

looks like some good dims for those cues steve, and reaching that simply by hand eye would be a very secure feeling

Hands and eye can be a lot better than people might think...
Think of how much furniture was made with just that... As long as your not looking at old Italian stuff lol
Well the stuff I've worked on...

[j6uk]

looks like some good dims for those cues steve, and reaching that simply by hand eye would be a very secure feeling

[itsnoteasy]

Much better pics on the flicker thing. It's a pity the beech is so stiff as I like the look of the shafts. Nice going Vmax.

[vmax4steve]

The 60" one piece ash cue measures at 30mm butt, 24mm shoulder, 21mm at h/w to 10mm ferrule

58 inch one piece ash pool cue is 29mm butt, 23mm shoulder, 20mm at h/w to 12mm ferrule

58 1/2" beech is 30mm butt, 24mm shoulder, 21mm at h/w to 9.3mm ferrule

57" beech is 30mm butt, 25mm shoulder, 21mm at h/w to 9mm ferrule

58 1/2" one piece ash is 30.5mm butt, 25mm shoulder, 20.5mm at h/w to 9.8mm ferrule.

All roughly the same and done only by eye, strange that they came out so close to each other as I measure nothing until deciding length to fit the ferrule. I decided to taper the 60" cue from the 57" point to keep the taper the same as a standard cue, so the last three inches is dowelled at 30mm, basically where you hold it has no taper. You influenced me there after our many discussions over longer cues and how you thought that the standard length gave better feel, I thought that might simply be down to the taper over the standard 57 inches was in some way 'right'. It certainly feels more solid than my 61 1/2" playing cue that's tapered it's whole length.

[j6uk]

I don't quite get what you mean j6. Are you talking about from where do I plane for the dimensions and taper ?

i was thinking what are the dims of your cues at the halfway point and 18" up from the butt, 18 being roughly the top of the splices on most cues.

[vmax4steve]

like the look of the 60" cue.
what kind of dims you doing 18" from the butt, and halfway up?

I don't quite get what you mean j6. Are you talking about from where do I plane for the dimensions and taper ?

[the lone wolf]

Just opened a Flickr account,
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60 inch one piece ash 18 oz's 10mm aluminium ferrule
58 inch one piece ash 9 ball cue 16.5 oz's with 12mm buffalo horn ferrule
58 inch one piece beech 18 oz's with 9.4mm brass ferrule
57 inch one piece beech 17 oz's with 9mm brass ferrule

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Some nice handy work there vmax!

[j6uk]

like the look of the 60" cue.
what kind of dims you doing 18" from the butt, and halfway up?

[vmax4steve]

Just opened a Flickr account,
from top
60 inch one piece ash 18 oz's 10mm aluminium ferrule
58 inch one piece ash 9 ball cue 16.5 oz's with 12mm buffalo horn ferrule
58 inch one piece beech 18 oz's with 9.4mm brass ferrule
57 inch one piece beech 17 oz's with 9mm brass ferrule

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[Ninja.cues]

Looks real good but would be better taking your pics outside.