Here's another project I been working on for the past couple of weeks. Did a little research. Ordered materials from Cue Components and set up my personal lathe and had at it. The lathe is my variable speed electric drill mounted on a bench vice. The other end is a wood block with a few holes to be able to spin shafts and a slot to hold the butt pin to be able to spin the butt.
Lots of sanding and the finish is Cue components special odorless thin "gold cyanoacrylate" (super glue). Lots of trepidation about applying a super glue finish, but I finally decided how hard could it be.
Watched a few good instructional videos on you tube, also bought a set of wet sanding micro pads which were great. These gave an incredibly slick smooth glass finish.
The wrapless cue is a Captain Bob Manzino, that Bob made for me in 1995, one of his first 3-4 cues he made. Today Bob is a very accomplished high quality cue maker who has won a few top awards a cue shows like in Las vegas. His cues can go as high as $ 10, 20, 30 g's to collectors. Course mine was no where near to any of that, lucky me.
The wrapped cue is a 1920 vintage brunswick titleist conversion done by Wayne Fincher in Seattle that I picked up a couple of years ago. Came with three new shafts, all white is ivory. The piece on the lathe is one of two mid extensions that I sometimes use, and I was fitting them to each cue as well as finishing them also.
I was pretty pleased at how these came out, each has about 18-20 coats of finish, and surprised at how easy this actually was to
do.
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