Installing linen Wrap

cbi1000

cbi1000

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Hello,

I've got a spool or IL wrap, linen press, and now a cue so i'm ready to go. LOL.

I'm ready to start installing linen wraps, i'd love to hear any tips you guys might have for a "new guy".

Burnishing
Sealing
pressing
gluing

I have read a couple books and watch a couple videos. Just asking cause sometimes there are tips here and there that don't ever get covered in books or vids.
thanks in advance,

Craig
 
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It is pretty easy and rather forgiving. Just be careful of the finish when pressing near the shoulders. Also, if you are using the hole and toothpick way, be careful of the finish on the shoulder when you are drilling the hole.
 
Use the toothpick method.

If you use Elmer's white glue ... cut it about 10% with water.
It wont dry up so fast and will flow better.
A layer of masking tape at both ends will help protect the finish but you still need to use great care pressing or burnishing that area.

Before you press ... soak it with spray starch and work it into the linen then dry it off with a paper towel.
The water in the spray starch will help activate the glue bond between the linen and the handle wood.

One nice thing about linen is that you can strip it off and start over if you mess up to badly.
 
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WilleeCue said:
Use the toothpick method.

If you use Elmer's white glue ... cut it about 10% with water.
It wont dry up so fast and will flow better.
A layer of masking tape at both ends will help protect the finish but you still need to use great care pressing or burnishing that area.

Before you press ... soak it with spray starch and work it into the linen then dry it off with a paper towel.
The water in the spray starch will help activate the glue bond between the linen and the handle wood.

One nice thing about linen is that you can strip it off and start over if you mess up to badly.
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Do you have a starch brand in mind?

thanks,

Craig
 
cbi1000 said:
Do you have a starch brand in mind?

thanks,

Craig
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Any Starch will work, but I use Niagra Spray Starch. If you want the wrap super smooth, you can also lightly sand it. If I am sanding the wrap, I use 600, 800, and then 1000 grit before I starch and finish press.

Have fun Bud!!!!:smile:
 
Maybe there are some starches that are deemed better than others. When I went searching in the grocery stores, I guess I was expecting to find a spray bottle. All I could find in all the stores that I went to was a generic
aerosol brand that I never heard of before. Last week I cleaned a wrap on a Huebler that was pushing 40 years. The wrap was almost black. It took a bit of elbow grease to get the accumulated dirt from bewtween the threads but it finally came clean. After I soaked up as much as possible with a towel, I pressed the linen dry, I starched and repressed. It came out as nice as you could expect for a wrap that was almost 40 years old.

Maybe one of the cue makers cam give you an idea of optimal turning speed and how much preasure you want to put on the handle of your press.
Other than that, I could tell you a story about my first press job on a personal cue that would fall into the category of: OOOPs, I better not do it that way again.
 
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