Right tool for the job
You guys sound dangerous ............or a hazard to cue shafts .
Nothing better then the right tool for the job .and even then there are some who will still screw it up.
The right tool is a lathe , drills turn slow and you really don't need the shaft rotating to clean it ......................................
For solid maple shafts that don't have a clear coat on them, you know the old wooden ones
Lighter fluid , elbow grease and carnauba car paste wax ...........................
And don't spare the lighter fluid.
Shaft cleaning is like anything else , there is allot of ways of doing it ...