He made my full splice cue, sadly I took to long on a pawn. Father ordered it for me. Joel good guy. And he did mine out of a very tough material I don't think many could do it. Palm wood. Really hard to lathe or get a good finish on it.

Appreciate the kind words

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hola, tus trabajos son increíbles hermosos tacos de pool, soy jugador amateur...te felicito me encantan los videos. saludos desde Argentina

Heya Nick, yea I had all the machinery minus the lathes before cue making. I had a passion for woodworking - mainly furniture and home improvements. Good question about the avg time. That’s what pool cues are- it’s never an issue with margin and cost of material. It’s time. It’s incredibly time consuming and lengthy. But it’s too nebulous to sit and keep track of how long. While one thing is curing on cue 1, I have something else cutting on cue 2, while sketching an idea for cue 3. Lots of overlap. And time is significantly influenced by experience. A good example is wraps. A leather wrap would take me 45 minutes or so. I’ve seen guys do it in 10 minutes.

Dude I love that you made it. That makes my day! I wanted options. Would I prefer sawing on one side or the other? What if the blade im using starts drifting left, or right. What if a camera angle looks better one direction, etc…The amount of work needed to make it reversible was minimal and I figured it couldn’t hurt. So you were able to find the right angle based on your forearm grooves?

@@Studiotronics That makes sense. I haven't made the forearm yet, but I took some measurements of different pool cues I had laying around and choose an angle, so I'll just use that when I make the forearm as well. I don't have a cnc router though, so I'm going to try to make a table saw jig to make two compound angle cuts to remove each corner. That jig is still just an idea though, hopefully it all works out.

Morning Thomas. Normal modern cues are attached together using a tenon and screw. Full spliced cues are attached together by gluing all that surface area afforded by joining these prongs together. After assembly, a full splice cue is a single piece. Full stop. If the cue maker is competent, they’re both solid means of construction. But if I’m in a bar fight, I’m grabbing the full splice every time. As a woodworker, agnostic of being a pool player, it’s simply smarter better construction. But it’s harder to do. More skill is involved. And wood choice is harder. You need much longer pieces of lumber. Which means more expensive. Can you notice a difference in feel when playing? I can. Absolutely. Will it make you a better pool player? No. Probably not. Predator is a massive international company with an entire team dedicated to marketing. In reality their wood is trash. Their designs are often painted on. Putting predator cues on a lathe is telling. They wobble which tells me shoddy construction and speed to get things out of the door are the biggest motivators. It’s a numbers game for them. As for exceed cues, I haven’t seen any equivalent of the posts from predator players showing their painted fake cues. But Dual Core Power Design is marketing mumbo jumbo. That $600 carbon fiber shaft was purchased in China for $10 and filled with Home Depot foam. Weight was added. Often with a weight bolt affixed inside. Cue makers have taken every single carbon fiber shaft available on the market and ripped them open and dissected them. It’s the same for all of them. So when you read things like Dual Core Power, be weary.

Thank you for the response. I've always been interested in full splice construction but they're harder to come by yet alone get some time to hit with one. And yes, I know it's a numbers game for predator and they do not have the ability to give each cue close and careful attention the way an individual cue maker would be able.@@Studiotronics

@@Studiotronics AMEN to this, I'm also a custom cue maker herein Ontario Canada as well and agree 1000% about the Predator garbage out here! MASS produced and inferior woods. As you mention its all hype and millions spend on marketing, like come-on, who pays $600 for a jump cue, like seriously? ( OK who has the audacity to even charge that = Predator) Your designs are very nice and well crafted to say the least. I like your jig for the veneers, which I have one similar for my CNC as well. I'm currently designing a fully adjustable jig right now that mounts to the band saw made out of aluminum and will cut the angles. The one I'd love to come up with for the band saw is the veneer cutting jig, which, with a bit of tweaking I think I can design by utilizing the full splice jig itself. I'm trying to make an "all in one" type situation for the receiver section of the full splice which is rather difficult but in my mind achievable.

Heya Nick, I never finished them as there were mistakes. They were built during the learning process, before I had really dialed in full splices

@Studiotronics well few of those look very nice. Bet would still look great with epoxy on them even not finished just for veneer reference if someone liked the pattern.