I use 1 on 1 shellac and shellac thinner for a sealer and it works great. I aam looking for a home brew similar to cueglide or cuesilk? any suggestion?
Home made brew similar to cuesilk or cue glide?
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Dielectric silicone compound from radio shack or other electronic supply. It comes in a tube like toothpaste. Rub that stuff in & buff out and you'll have a snot slickery shaft. It's a silicone but instead of being liquid it is more of a gel. Much cheaper, works better. However, just like the cue slicking products, it'll get sticky & gummy after several hours of use & will need rebuffing or reapplication.
Try astroglide (insert you own joke about the shaft here) 
I have been using a product called "SAILKOTE" high performance, DRY lubricant. WEB SITE www.888teammclube.com
Just spray a small amount on a folded paper towel, wipe in onto the shaft & polish. Like anything good, the fumes are bad for you. I bought this can a year ago & it's still 3/4 full. You use VERY little. A 6 oz. can was $7.35...JER
Just spray a small amount on a folded paper towel, wipe in onto the shaft & polish. Like anything good, the fumes are bad for you. I bought this can a year ago & it's still 3/4 full. You use VERY little. A 6 oz. can was $7.35...JER
rhncue said:
Dick, it's the same basic substance as the stuff used in the cue silk & cue glide stuff, only a different consistency. That stuff in those bottles is like any other crap marketed toward pool cues, it's an existing substance that is packaged & marketed toward cues. It's also the same stuff as found in shuffleboard spray cans to slick up the shuffleboard tables. It's just silicone, and cleans up as easily as any other silicone based cue slicker.
I used it for a few years before finding a better juice. I had no troubles doing refinishes, nor any troubles cleaning shafts. Before that I used shuffleboard spray. If you think that stuff is scary, you'd really flip if you knew what I use now. But that's nothing i'm ready to share. Point is, there's lots of things that work & work well if you know what to look for. If we all used the same stuff & did things the same way, none of our cues would be unique or stand out amoung our peers. Nobody ever accused me of doing things the standard way. I enjoy experimenting & finding new ways to do things.
you'd really flip if you knew what I use now
WD40?
WD40?
qbilder said:
I ordered right off of the internet web site...JER
I hope it smells better.qbilder said:Not quite but close
Thanks, Jerry. I think i'll look into it.
I have a home brew too.
Fkkr makes me dizzy though.
its funny this came up someone at the expo said cue silk was a tire dressing using to make tires shine i dont know if its true but thats what i was told
JoeyInCali said:
Yeah, smells better. It smells like wheel bearing grease!!!! Which that smells good to me, an old military greese monkey. But it's nothing even related to grease. It's a dry lube & I think the carrier fluid is what makes the funky smell. As for WD-40, that stuff smells good!!! I used to use it on rubber worms for bass fishing, worked great. Fish like it
Lee, I beleive the tire shine rumor. I have some tire shine that is the exact consistency and scent as some of the cue slicking liquids that sell for $5/.2oz. bottles.
qbilder said:
I'm sure you are right that most products that are marketed toward the pool industry are other much more common products. This doesn't change the fact that silicone and finishes do not work well together. I wouldn't let people drive past my shop if I thought they had any silicone products in their vehicle. Silicone is a great product that really cuts down on friction but it also cuts down on attaining a good finish on a cue. Silicone is what causes fish eyes in a finish. Once your shop gets contaminated it is very hard to get clean again. It's like the plague, a little bit goes a long way. They sell fish eye remover to add to finishes but it is actually silicone. Once the gun or object being finished is contaminated it becomes much easier to add silicone so that the complete object is one big fish eye than it is trying to remove and clean what ever silicon was there to start with. At least this is what I was told years ago. Any body men here that have the real skinny on this stuff?
Dick
rhncue said:
Wow, I didn't know that about the fish eye remover. That's nuts. But I can't say I have ever had issues with finish sticking or any troubles refinishing. I haven't used silicone in a long time, and likely won't ever again. But I have never experienced any troubles with it besides it getting sticky & needing reapplication.
qbilder said:
It's for the Lanolin that it contains. It is a secretion that sheep emit to make their wool water resistant and slick. He said that when he first started building cues he used the VO-5 because it contained the most lanolin. Now it can be purchased in a pure form.
Dick