is this what you're trying to do?

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
class Testing extends JFrame
{
 public Testing()
 {
   setLocation(400,200);
   setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   JSlider slider = new JSlider(1,30,1);
   java.util.Hashtable labelTable = new java.util.Hashtable();
   labelTable.put(new Integer(1), new JLabel("1"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(5), new JLabel("5"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(10), new JLabel("10"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(15), new JLabel("15"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(20), new JLabel("20"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(25), new JLabel("25"));
   labelTable.put(new Integer(30), new JLabel("30"));
   slider.setLabelTable(labelTable);
   slider.setMinorTickSpacing(1);
   slider.setPaintTicks(true);
   slider.setPaintLabels(true);
   JPanel jp = new JPanel();
   jp.add(slider);
   getContentPane().add(jp);
   pack();
 }
 public static void main(String[] args){new
Testing().setVisible(true);}
}

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:54:07 GMT, Daniel
<daik.no-spam@mds.nospam.mdh.se> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

Here is how I would tackle the problem. I go sniffing around Sun's
code to find the code that paints the ticks and little numbers.

I extend that's method's class with some similar code that takes an
extra parm to shift the origin.  I dig around for a method to replace
the standard class with mine. You might do it with a clipregion
adjustment.  Logically paint some unwanted axis to the left, but don't
display it.

If there is no replacement hook,  extend the mother class with such a
hook.

If it starts to get too ugly, just write your own specialised Slider
from scratch extending JPanel doing everything exactly the way you
want with drawString and fillRect in paintComponent.

Note. it is called JSlider not Jslider.