Finishing surface of Carbon Fiber shafts

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DJEnD

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I would love to find out how you are finishing your shafts, sanding/sealing/polishing processes mainly....
 
Well, no sealing needed, 1500 to 2000 and polishing compounds will get you there...trick is not to marred the shaft before hand.
 
Get yourself some shafts and experiment. Every manufacturer I've gotten shafts from has had a different surface condition, so you need to find a shaft supplier that you're happy with the quality, then start experimenting with finishing the shafts to see what works best for that particular shaft condition.
 
Mcues said:
Well, no sealing needed, 1500 to 2000 and polishing compounds will get you there...trick is not to marred the shaft before hand.
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I got a slight hairline scratch (ding) in my cutec carbon fiber shaft. Will JB weld work to fill in the tiny scratch? What will work?
 
If the scratch is indeed tiny, JB Weld will probably not adhere. Any if tiny, why worry about it? If you are feeling it, it is not tiny.
 
Make sure that you have the right PPE when sanding, cutting CF etc. The dust from it is No good to your lungs etc. I wet sanded mine, and then discarded the paper into the rubbish. The water container, I add a drop of dishwash liquid as a surface tension breaker. A light grey scotch brite used in the linear direction makes a great surface that feels smooth to the skin. Radial lines will drag on the skin, so do most very shiny surfaces. Hence the finish is often sanded or is not applied to wood shafts. I used unidirectional carbon, for the outer layer.
 
conetip said:
Make sure that you have the right PPE when sanding, cutting CF etc. The dust from it is No good to your lungs etc. I wet sanded mine, and then discarded the paper into the rubbish. The water container, I add a drop of dishwash liquid as a surface tension breaker. A light grey scotch brite used in the linear direction makes a great surface that feels smooth to the skin. Radial lines will drag on the skin, so do most very shiny surfaces. Hence the finish is often sanded or is not applied to wood shafts. I used unidirectional carbon, for the outer layer.
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I'm not a Cue-Maker, but...I have cut enough carbon fiber shafts to know this...Wrapping a layer of masking tape around the area that you're going to cut, will help with both dust, and fraying. Just a small tip from a know nothing.
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conetip said:
Make sure that you have the right PPE when sanding, cutting CF etc. The dust from it is No good to your lungs etc. I wet sanded mine, and then discarded the paper into the rubbish. The water container, I add a drop of dishwash liquid as a surface tension breaker. A light grey scotch brite used in the linear direction makes a great surface that feels smooth to the skin. Radial lines will drag on the skin, so do most very shiny surfaces. Hence the finish is often sanded or is not applied to wood shafts. I used unidirectional carbon, for the outer layer.
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Zero-ing in on the last statement, you custom order your shafts to have a unidirectional layer as the outer layer? It's interesting if that's the case...

Thanks for your advice. I'm very out of depth with carbon shafts and also being very late to the repair game although I've been playing about 20 years. As I've disclosed somewhere else on this forums that I did buy some finished shafts for testing playability but they all came not surface finished, and also quite unlike the layer detail as claimed by them(they claimed it's the same factory where the notable big brand makes their shafts from), but I guess without the proper surface finishing it's quite difficult to tell if their claims are true(other than playability, which has been disappointing so far).


j2pac said:
I'm not a Cue-Maker, but...I have cut enough carbon fiber shafts to know this...Wrapping a layer of masking tape around the area that you're going to cut, will help with both dust, and fraying. Just a small tip from a know nothing.
😎👍
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Thanks for this advice too. I'm operating out of my living room for basic repairs and have no intentions to have a bigger repair operation than I currently have now, so this one advice is really important for health concerns. Thank you very much!
 
The CF blanks that I get need no sanding, sealing or polishing. They are ready to play as is. Maybe I do not understand what type of finish you are trying to achieve. As an example, the Jacoby Black CF shaft. All the CF blanks I get are almost exactly like those as far as finish is concerned
 
I dont mean to sidetrack this thread so pm me if you want
but someone in the main forum asked about using renaissance wax on a finished carbon fiber shaft
your thoughts?
 
conetip said:
Make sure that you have the right PPE when sanding, cutting CF etc. The dust from it is No good to your lungs etc. I wet sanded mine, and then discarded the paper into the rubbish. The water container, I add a drop of dishwash liquid as a surface tension breaker. A light grey scotch brite used in the linear direction makes a great surface that feels smooth to the skin. Radial lines will drag on the skin, so do most very shiny surfaces. Hence the finish is often sanded or is not applied to wood shafts. I used unidirectional carbon, for the outer layer.
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Interesting
 
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