Cheap way to burnish cue shaft

nowadays all the carnuba auto waxes have silicone in them. no good. mothers wax may not. but the pure carnuba bar would be best but you dont need it at all. just burnish it.

old style a dollar bill was good as we didnt have naything else in the poolroom to use.
but what most dont know anymore was that a drinking glass or a light bulb rubbed works best of all. put the shaft on your legs while sitting down in a chair and rub the glass back and forth while spinning the shaft on your legs.
 
maha said:
nowadays all the carnuba auto waxes have silicone in them. no good. mothers wax may not. but the pure carnuba bar would be best but you dont need it at all. just burnish it.

old style a dollar bill was good as we didnt have naything else in the poolroom to use.
but what most dont know anymore was that a drinking glass or a light bulb rubbed works best of all. put the shaft on your legs while sitting down in a chair and rub the glass back and forth while spinning the shaft on your legs.
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I've used shot glasses to remove small dents tbat way. That was the old school way before I got my cue doctor glass rod.
 
they are linen and they generally have facial oil on them from the handling.
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And facial oil is only part of it. Nose pickers, people who wipe and don't wash.

If one wants to burnish their shaft with someone elses snot and Bum Grease, feel free, I'll pass.

The cheap paper towels in any wash room work just fine.

We don't have dollar bills in Canada. Be kinda hard to burnish a shaft with a Loonie.

I went to the bank the other day and gave the teller a Loonie. I asked for an American dollar bill and she gave me 94 cents. I'm thinking, this ain't gonna work either.


Johnson Paste Wax. I put some on my Johnson the other night. Yeah I know, it works great if you can keep your hand from slipping off.

It smells nice too.
 
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An old paper bag and a the dollar bill have been around for 65 years at least. Johnnyt
 
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I saved my paper bags for the girls I used to bring home.

I had to quit doing that when they went to plastic. I just about smothered a girl one night.

I guess that I shouldn't have tied the bag handles around her neck. Not my fault really, I just didn't want it to fall off.

They would always fall for the roll play tho. I would do Grocery Manager/Cashier.
 
Yeah, what did they look like with no make up.

I got taken home one night. When I woke in the morning, the girl asked me if I knew where I was. I was thinking, not really but I do know that I need to not be here very much longer. Just another Night in Stupidville with Terry.
 
I woke up in a trailer next to an Eskimo girl on the outskirts of Fairbanks, AK one morning. She shook me awake and said "hide somewhere by husband just pulled up outside". Hide somewhere in a small single wide? WTF was she thinking? All of a sudden this giant walks through the door, ducking his head so he won't bump the top of the door. She had a big mean cat. I picked it up and threw it right in his face and ran by him and into the boonies. I found out a few days later that cat tore his face up. Johnnyt
 
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Yeah, I've brought home some 3 AM super models myself. LOL. Johnnyt
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Then you wake up at 10AM and she's staring at you, saying, "Oh my God! Let's do it again, let's do it again!", and you're thinking to yourself, "Oh my God! I did it again, I did it again."
 
What is the most expensive way to burnish a shaft? I mean what would you recommend for Paris Hilton or Mark Cuban? A scrap of leather is still so declasse.
 
I've seen people using silver foil before to burnish a cue. Its not for me. It makes your shaft go dark, almost black but it does burnish it. It works extremely well to burnish the edges of your tip though. I'll try the paper bag method out.
 
Cost a whopping $4 from one of AzBilliard's sponsors. I have one in each of my cases and it does what it's supposed to. I'm partial to Tiger Products, though.

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It's called boning.
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I wrote a long post about how I treated my shaft when I first got it, but my power went out and I lost it. Oh, well, here's the part about boning at any rate.


It's an old trick from baseball, where they used to bone the bat with an old ham bone to harden up the surface. I used to do that to the violin bows I made, only I used a highly polished piece of ivory. Leaves a slick but compacted surface to the wood that I feel makes it a bit tougher to external damage.

I used the same piece of ivory on my shaft when I got it. It actually made the shaft enough thinner that I had to take the ferrule down a few thou to make it the same diameter. It doesn't remove wood like sanding does, the wood just gets compressed, making it denser.

Since the wood fibers are being compressed, the shaft is in effect being "pre-dented" over its entire surface. My cue has remained basically dent-free for the time I've owned it. Maybe some cuemakers will disagree, but it seems to have been beneficial to my shaft IMHO.
 
I bought one of those RX Dr. Glass Rods.

Most cue makers will tell you, and rightly so, the glass rod only spreads the dent out.

Obviously there is some merit to it or you wouldn't be doing it on custom Violin Bows.

It might be different in strengthening the wood over all rather than spreading a dent out.

I have used it on some minor finish dings. It doesn't make them completely disappear but in most cases, makes it slightly more acceptable.

Getting a dent in the bridge area from whacking a table light is common during league play. And its always in the bridge area. A pain in the butt to be spinning the shaft in your hand when you have better things to think about.

In a situation like that, I have often used the edge of a Bic lighter to lesson the dent until I can take care of it at home later.

On occasion they come pretty much out or I have even done a wet bandage between matches. If the grain gets raised a bit, I will use the edge of the lighter to take it down.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention, yes?

Alcohol swabs are cheap, they clean a shaft or ferrule off nicely. If my shaft ever gets a bit sticky, I will use a couple of swabs and then a good hot burnish with a brown paper towel.

Just a quick fix until a person get spend a bit more time on it.
 
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Blue Hog ridr said:
I saved my paper bags for the girls I used to bring home.

I had to quit doing that when they went to plastic. I just about smothered a girl one night.

I guess that I shouldn't have tied the bag handles around her neck. Not my fault really, I just didn't want it to fall off.

They would always fall for the roll play tho. I would do Grocery Manager/Cashier.
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You do know if you the bag over your head you only need 1 bag, that way you dont need to go shopping everyday.:thumbup:
 
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