Boy, you described him to the tee.That's probably true. My experience wasn't all that pleasant. There was a lot of time, research, trail & error before I settled in on something suitable for a cue finish. Most of the "glues" were disastrous, with a couple exceptions. The paper towel application is a disaster, too. I never could get it right, and it bothered me that the paper towel would smoke due to chemical reaction. There's just a whole lot that's so wrong with the typical CA finish. I had to take an approach completely free of traditional CA finish knowledge, or else I'd have gotten nowhere with it.
That's what you get for listening to that blowhard :rotflmao1: That guy takes a tiny crumb of info & next thing you know he's preaching an entire knowledge base around it. He has a well earned reputation for manipulating, twisting, playing folks against one another as if they are pawns in his personal game of chess. He does so with no regard to anybody but himself, for nothing but his own personal gain. I don't play those games. It drives me nuts when somebody says one thing to my face like we're friends, then immediately runs to say something else to people behind my back. That's the kind of crap my daughter dealt with in middle school, and it annoys the hell out of me to see grown ass men doing it. We're making cues, not living the "Game of Thrones".
Best finish I've ever seen is Ceramiclear. My late mentor sprayed it on his cues. I saw him accidentally drop his cue to his lathe after polishing it.
The finish did not even show one iota of ding or dent. It is very expensive and it appears they reformulated the California version yet again.
The stuff that SW uses now is illegal in California. Used to be huge here until it became illegal. It has earned it's rep in toughness. Some talk is some people still drive to Vegas to get them and spray it here.
Judd used to spray one tough clear coat as well. Saw Efren's cue all get beat up and dinged but the finish stuck.
Maybe someday, instead of UV or CA or urethane, there would be a finish kinda like thread lock. Absence of oxygen dries it hard.
We can only dream.
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