Do you wipe down your cue?

I like to keep mine in showroom condition....yes it's a tool but also a nicely crafted piece. If I wanted a beater I'd buy one. My buddy spent $2500 on a cue it looks beat to shit. Maybe he thought it would make him play better😆....
 
I wipe my CF cue down with an alcohol wipe after each session. It's surprising how brown that little wipe gets after just a couple hours in a typical pool hall.
 
i dont remember wiping my shaft. i dont carry a towel. my glove wipes it down every shot. maybe once or so on a hot humid day decades back before we had air conditioning and gloves .. i wonder why its needed. but my shaft is kind of blueish.
heaven forbid.
 
Matt_24 said:
I thoroughly wipe down my cue with a soft cloth or dry paper towel after every session. I make sure to wipe off the ferrule, and end of the tip as well, removing any remaining chalk. This keeps my cues looking really nice after years of play. I can't stand a dirty ferrule.
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Yes, always and always have.
 
MattPoland said:
Nope. I like my cue. I’d rather it not be dirty and dinged. But I just kind of accept the natural life it will live. It is a personal extension of who I am. But also somewhere in my brain it’s just a tool. It’s there to be used and the put away so it’s ready to be used again later. I don’t care about its collectibility, resale value, or identity as a piece of art. It’s not to the extreme as Willie Nelson’s guitar “Trigger” but it’s very adjacent in my mind to that.
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The reason I wipe my cue down is because it is in fact a tool, I have so much invested in tools that I take very good care of all of them.
 
slide13 said:
I always wipe down my cues, butt and shaft, before putting them back in the case. I also clean my tips and do any needed tip edge burnishing, shaping and scuffing too....it takes me forever to pack up at the end of a session, haha. But I like knowing my cues are clean and ready to go as soon as I pull them out of the case, every single time.

I play wrapless now and can get sweaty hands at times so it's important for me to wipe it down so it doesn't get. I still did it when I had a wrapped cue but I find it even more important with wrapless.
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I've switched to wrapless after years of playing with irish linen...and I really like the wrapless. I feel like I can grip the cue even looser but it won't slip out of my fingertips.
 
Back when I rode in the MC club I had a brother that got a brand new bike. Every time we got to our destination no matter how long the run was Trigger would get out his rags and wipe his bike down. One afternoon I was breaking his balls a little and said Trigger why you always rubbing on that bike your gonna rub the paint right off it. I'll never forget his answer. He said with a great level of confidence and fairly loudly as he was annoyed with me by this point lol. For the same reason woman douche PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP now F off hahahaha. Trigger has passed away now but I'll never forget those words that day. So according to Trigger I guess that's why I clean my cue pride of ownership

Edit .. A clean tool is a happy tool 😁
 
Matt_24 said:
I thoroughly wipe down my cue with a soft cloth or dry paper towel after every session. I make sure to wipe off the ferrule, and end of the tip as well, removing any remaining chalk. This keeps my cues looking really nice after years of play. I can't stand a dirty ferrule.
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No - just occasionally clean the shaft. But dirty ferrules are almost always a result of using chalk that is drilled out too deep and incorrectly applying the chalk.
 
BuffaloSlim said:
Back when I rode in the MC club I had a brother that got a brand new bike. Every time we got to our destination no matter how long the run was Trigger would get out his rags and wipe his bike down. One afternoon I was breaking his balls a little and said Trigger why you always rubbing on that bike your gonna rub the paint right off it. I'll never forget his answer. He said with a great level of confidence and fairly loudly as he was annoyed with me by this point lol. For the same reason woman douche PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP now F off hahahaha. Trigger has passed away now but I'll never forget those words that day. So according to Trigger I guess that's why I clean my cue pride of ownership

Edit .. A clean tool is a happy tool 😁
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I had a Brother that never washed his bike.

I tasked a Prospect to wash it and he went ape-shit. He said that was Route 66 dirt on the bike and he didn't want it washed off...ever.

To each his own.

Mine gets washed proper about once a year, and wiped down with deail spray maybe every couple of months.

I had it pro detailed once, with a ceramic coat. Looked amazing. It was a treat to myself, and my ride.

My chopper never gets washed, but that's another animal. Rattle can flat black and rust. These days they call it "patina".

I wipe my Joss off, but most would say the wrap needs cleaned. Feels great to me. So does The Crazy Redhead.

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