My workshop

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

What's the plan? Presumably you're making them to sell - what price point?

[vmax4steve]

Nice, nice, tidy as well. Have the shafts been cut with hand planes or machines bud?

Do the donkey work with the multi machine's planer to about 5mm oversize, from then on it's all hand planing. Have a no:7 and no:4 and a block plane plus a spoke shave.
Would be a fool to plane from 40mm square totally by hand.
This has taken me a year so far, with all the resting of the shafts inbetween, will take them one at a time from now on to a finished cue, starting in a months time.

[Cannonball]

Nice, nice, tidy as well. Have the shafts been cut with hand planes or machines bud?

[itsnoteasy]

Cracking set up Vmax.

[jim evans]

Nice set up mate.

[vmax4steve]

Had this week off work to fix my motorbikes and get my shafts down to 2mm over size ready for final planing, thought the members would like to see some pics.

my workshop 2 004 (478x640).jpg my one piece shafts, from the left 4 oak, 17 ash & 3 beech
my workshop 2 002 (478x640).jpg my 3/4 shafts, all olive ash
my workshop 2 006 (640x478).jpg a closer look at some of the hardwood for butts and decorative splices, from the left ipe tabaca, purple heart, iroko, palmira, wenge, ebony, mahogany, walnut
my workshop 2 001 (478x640).jpg my planer/moulder/circular & bandsaw
my workshop 2 003 (478x640).jpg my lathe, pillar drill, belt sander, level for straight edge