Cue Stick Designs

I am new to this group and am trying to learn CNC.I will be
purchasing some equipment in the near future and going through the
learning process (until the $$$ runs out). I am interested in buiding
a CNC device to put designs in Custom Made Cue Sticks. It would have
to be pretty accurate. It would have to cut the pocket in the Cue
Stick and cut out the inlay material to fit in the routed out pocket.
The inlay would need to fit like glove. Of course as you know a cue
stick is tapered, so this would have to be considered. At the stage
of production that this would be done the cue stick section would
only be about a 14" to 16" and would have a center bore hole on each
end. I have listed below some links of some machines that use
patterns to create the desired results. It would seem that one of the
designs that is used for engraving could be modified to accompish
this task. If I had a machine that would create this from designs
that I could create in a drawing program on a computer and then get
this trasferred to a CNC machine it would really make me a happy
camper. If anyone could give me some help on this or guide me in the
right direction I would really appreciate it. I e-mailed John
Kleinbauer at kleinbauer@... and he informed me that he had
been down that road before and that it was no longer of interest to
him, so that road is now closed. I can follow instructions fairly
well. In the links below you can see some the designs and what the
finish products look like.


J. Bunn
jd_bunn@...

http://www.cuesmith.com/main/inlay/index.php

http://www.barringercues.com/barprecinmac.html

http://www.poolcueinlaymachines.com/inlaymachine.htm

http://www.pbg.net/cues/