I restored a pretty rare McDermott pool cue and it turned out amazing!

Try this practice drill! https://youtu.be/mbaIJF0gHbA?si=5_VKdedeg8bV1ktS

Using that much water on wood will come back to haunt you at some point.. I was working with a really nice clear coated piece of wood once and decided to wet sand it as well. I was unlucky and the water found a crack to get to the wood .. The wood swelled and cracked the finish. Was a lot more work redoing the entire thing rather then avoiding water in the first place.. Wet sanding is fine for automotive work not really for wood :).

Great work!

Great Job as always 😁Enjoy the videos

You do very nice work. I enjoyed watching.

Dear friend. I think It's finally after searching several videos. I finally managed to find it and that video is yours. I have to tried to find a craft lathe similar to yours and I haven't had any luck 😔 finding it yet, until I was able to watch your video. You have no idea how happy I was to see yours. If it's not idiscretion on my part, I could know where you got it. So I can get one just like yours, because I want to repair some of my pool sticks. I will be more than grateful if you could share this information. Thanks, Alex.

Great job! I have an EK4 since new, and is still in mint condition!

Awesome video!

Lott's of sanding great work..❤you shoot good too.

For sure the one with the “small dent” in mint condition!

Please show us how you stain the birdseye maple, preventing it from getting into veneers, and to make the figure pop

Please make sure to advert watchers to NEVER let sandpaper overlap while sanding by hand as you’ve done. You’re used to and know how far to go, new people won’t! That was my first AND ONLY Acident I had while using a lathe. Great video.

New subscriber, video is sooooo soothing lol

Do you have a video of you adding the clear before wet sanding I've looked all over and can't seem to find it thanks

I'm not going to tell you to clean but I am going to request more videos 😂. My Mid Size Cue Smith will be here in a couple of days! I'm going to start on some super cheap cues I have then work my way up.

Do you remember the late 80's early 90's McDermott cues that had artistic paintings on them? Would love to see one being refinished! Have you ever done one before? Just curious!?

what clear coat did you use?

Question: Have a short side on my home table and need a shorty butt. Have a ton of uni loc shafts but the shorty cues I see aren’t uni loc. Would it be possible to have an 18” butt made with uni loc joint?

My buddy has the EK1 (beat to rat shit by him), I have the EK 6 and had it re stained/wrapped to a rosewood finish by McDermott directly. Awesome cue.

If you don’t mind, which brand/model is your lathe? It’s pretty powerful! Me like it!