Lol you don't know what you're saying, pretty much all pool cues are made on lathes, and cue maintenance is best done in a lathe

he is right, though. if not done properly you can easily damage the shaft in a lathe. this process is overly complicated, you can have the same result in less time with a simple and inexpensive single bevel knife and sandpaper. i'm only talking about re-tipping here, not other more invasive things like changing the ferrule

Notice the black collet that is around the cue, that is there to stop the cue from being damaged in the lathe chuck. Cues are made using lathes. Cues are easily maintained on lathes. Sure, you can manually install any layered tip onto a cue, but it's so much easier when it's spinning at 500rpm to shape a tip. Manual tip installation and shaping = 20-30 minutes probably.. on a lathe = 5 minutes. Go troll somewhere else, obviously you haven't a clue as to what you're even watching.

Ken Hyde why are you so aggressive? you can easily install a tip without a lathe in less then 10 minutes. soft tips can even be installed in 5 minutes. the process this guy uses makes it look like it's rocket science when, in reality, it's not. and he probably charges his customers accordingly... using a lathe simplifies the work, but a small mistake is amplified by the fast spinning of the shaft.

Its a little extreme for the purposes of installing a tip.