Buffing shafts

[Oldwestside]

I recently had my home table recovered with Brunswick Centennial Cloth. One of the old guys at the pool room told me to take the left over cloth and cut it into strips and to use them to buff shafts. Does this sound correct?

Thanks, Jerry

 

[Tokyo-dave]

You can use left over cloth strips to buff your shafts, but they don't do anything particularly special. What I mean is, you can get the same or better results with a number of different materials. Most people use almost any kind of a cloth to buff, and then leather for the burnishing seems to be a favorite.
dave