classiccues said:
Zack,
You need a decenty photo editor, I use Adobe because it came free with my camera. But it removes the need for fiddling around with a camera. For future reference, and something I showed cueaddicts. Use a 14" legal size scanner set on 300 DPI. Again you will have to know how to crop in an editor but it makes a good picture.
BTW NEVER sand your shafts to remove the chalk. What kind of clown would even recommend that? I know someone who flings the title "master instructor" around would never say that. Or would he? Anyways check some RSB threads or maybe some here that involved the "magic eraser". Anyone who tells you to take sand paper to a shaft is not someone who knows how to care for a cue.
Joe
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I was trying to help the lad, I do not need to be insulted and called a clown, you continue to insult me on two boards. I do not throw titles around, I was given the title of Billiards Expert by Mike Shamos because I am one. That title is in writing, published in Billiards digest, it is not made up. How about you post some of your titles and what great things you have done in pool.
He is selling the cue, so it does not matter if he takes the shaft down with 100 grit normal sandpaper, then 220, then 600, or the standard pack of varner magic papers. It does not matter, it's out of here. He does not care, he is getting rid of the cue. That is exactly what he should do, that dirt is really down deep in that shaft.
If I was keeping the shaft, that would be a different issue. He was in a hurry and it did not seem like he was going to go running all over town shopping for new stuff in the grocery store cleaning asiles. Who does not have sand paper laying around. What do you think the cue repair guys do when you drop your shaft off to be cleaned and you are not around, it goes on the lathe and gets sanded down, severly, because that saves time. You know that, and don't give me that either. It's like the kitchen in a resturant, all kinds of sins go unreported. The cue repair people have been sanding down shafts for centuries. Shafts do not last forever, Bob Meucci figures the true life of a shaft is 4 years and it should be replaced with a new one then.
I have been aware of alternate cleaning methods for a long time, like simple water. I was the cue doctor rep in 93, was going to shows in their green surgical gowns, I was the cue doctor. I have gallons of that stuff sitting around. There are a lot of things on the cleaning shelves that will clean shafts and I am not sure how many of them are good for the wood. Nobody has done any studies on this so use them at your own risk. Most of them open up the pores and the shaft has this sticky funny feeling and now it will really get dirty. You then have to know how to burnish and seal the shaft afterwards.
I also noticied all you were interested in doing was running me down, why did you not take that same time and teach him how to properly remove 4 years of deep down ingrained dirt and chalk dust into a shaft that had never been cleaned before. That is what he wanted, he does not need to see you trashing me, how does that help him??? If you want to trash me, pm me, or call me at 770-381-6609, be a man, trash me there.
I have posted before on how to maintain a shaft, wipe it down with a damp cloth at night and dry, I then polish with magic papers which go up to 8000 grit, they are pink and take no wood off. I'll bet you have never even seen one of these? When I clean my shaft, no wood comes off, but I play with a glove and know how to chalk correctly and very lightly so my shaft and ferrule don't get dirty in the first place.
How about you just cut me some slack here please, I am trying to work and you are crawling in my ditch and kicking the shovel out of my hands. Wait until I actually do something wrong before attacking me again please. It makes you look like a clown when you attack me when I am dead right. Thank you...Peace...
Best Wishes,
Fast Larry
