This just sounds like a bad idea to me. I don't want anyone sanding any shafts on my cues unless they built it.
Just maker sure they use a 6" long high grit paper .
When someone starts using 2" wide low grit paper is when you start seeing sanding grooves in your shaft.
I never thought of it before, but maybe my shafts don't get to dirty because I have never chalked with my bridge hand. I don't think I could if I wanted to, would be to unnatural.
That's the impression I've been under. I've watched instruction/repair videos from multiple cue builders/supplies and they all sand cues, but at very high grit. If I recall correctly (and please correct me if I'm wrong), Hightower instructs 400 and 600 when cleaning/sealing. I've been doing this for sometime, but I also didn't spend a fortune on equipment. Dry winter hands is also a plus for shooting!
This just sounds like a bad idea to me. I don't want anyone sanding any shafts on my cues unless they built it.
Can't say much about shaft sanding, but I really love your avatar. I'm a huge Gracie fan from way back. Seen her live in 1970, 9 months pregnant and still out there belting out tunes and strutting her stuff while we all expected her to drop the kid at any time. I was tripping pretty heavy on Orange Sunshine and kept trying to climb into the huge bass bins to hear the music better. Best concert I ever (partially) remember. Lol
I've only ever owned a cheap cue that came with the shaft shiny and impossible to make a closed bridge with. It needed to have the shiny coating of lacquer sanded off to be playable.
Do "good" shafts come already smooth and ready to play? I want to buy a new cue but don't want to have to sand it to make it playable.
I thought I read a post here where a guy ran into the respected builder of his cue years later and was asked, have you ever sanded the shafts? He said no and the builder told him "thank you" or something to that extent, like people were ruining his cues by sanding the shaft.