By Ted Heuer on March 31, 2015
The custom pool cue shafts are glued up, so let’s work on the cue butts. Here’s a butt made with walnut and figured maple being glued up. Here are a couple of butts rough turned to about 1.5 inches in diameter. Next, on some of the shafts and butts I added accent rings. On this […]
By Ted Heuer on March 28, 2015
A relative recently asked me to make him a custom pool cue. I was pretty reluctant at first and tried to get out of it by offering a series of excuses like I don’t have a cue lathe, or he could buy a quality production cue cheaper than I could possibly make one for him. […]
By Beth Heuer on March 2, 2015
Occasionally a piece of wood will reveal an element of surprise. Such was the case for an ambrosia maple natural edge bowl that Ted recently turned. He expected a lot of beautiful figuring and an interesting pattern at the base of the bowl. What he didn’t know was that this bowl would follow the theme […]