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Stuff I Make - CNC Inlaying - Pocket Billiard Pool Cues - Exotic Stones

 I wanted to start doing inlays in my " CUE CAPS ". Cue CAPS is a name

I made up in the early/mid 1990's.

Cue Caps are, what the billiard industry call " Joint Protectors ".

Joint Protectors screw on and over the exposed threaded screw and covers  the internally threaded hole in the upper "Shaft" section on the two piece billiard Pool cue.

I bought a bench Top 4 Axis CNC Milling Machine and the CAD/ CAM

Post Processing Software and started to learn how to do custom shape inlays to match high $$ Collectable, "Functional Art" Custom Pocket Billiard Pool Cues.

I made some and showed them, and, collectors started to contact me and asked me if I could make a Crown Cue Cap Set to match their cues.

I have to look at the Cue's design and materials and create the drawings/tool paths and bring all that to a "Machine Language" and then, in many machine processes, I create my Cue Caps.

I got more Japanese Ceramic post that I wanted to post, but, I thought I'd take a break and show you these Cue Caps. 

I will start showing you my favorite Caps that I made for collectors, these with Semi precious stones..  Today,  Turquoise :