Hello,
My friend who is a snooker player asked me to help him make his own snooker cue from hard maple and ebony. I do not have a lathe and I need to make it from a square stock by hand.
There is a jig that pro makers use. it is just a board with some kind of groove in it. Can you help me figure out the profile of the groove so that I can rotate the square stock easily (without use of vices or clamps) and also that I can create the required taper from heel to toe. Is it a square groove, or square groove rotated 45 degrees or something else? Does it have an equal depth or is it tapered in some way?
Here is the jig in this video
It can be seen at 1:00,1:40,2:18, etc.
Thank you very much.
My friend who is a snooker player asked me to help him make his own snooker cue from hard maple and ebony. I do not have a lathe and I need to make it from a square stock by hand.
There is a jig that pro makers use. it is just a board with some kind of groove in it. Can you help me figure out the profile of the groove so that I can rotate the square stock easily (without use of vices or clamps) and also that I can create the required taper from heel to toe. Is it a square groove, or square groove rotated 45 degrees or something else? Does it have an equal depth or is it tapered in some way?
Here is the jig in this video
It can be seen at 1:00,1:40,2:18, etc.
Thank you very much.