Kielwood shaft cleaning? methods?

[r9ball]

Do kielwood shafts require any different cleaning and sanding methods from a maple shaft? I got a small dent I need to raise and re-sand. I've done it on regular maple but never the dried kielwood maple. Just checking to see if the method is different for kielwood.
thanks

 

[SSDiver2112]

Do kielwood shafts require any different cleaning and sanding methods from a maple shaft? I got a small dent I need to raise and re-sand. I've done it on regular maple but never the dried kielwood maple. Just checking to see if the method is different for kielwood.
thanks

I use the same method as regular maple.

 

[Ģüśţāṿ]

Do kielwood shafts require any different cleaning and sanding methods from a maple shaft? I got a small dent I need to raise and re-sand. I've done it on regular maple but never the dried kielwood maple. Just checking to see if the method is different for kielwood.
thanks

I have not had good success fixing dents in KW compared to regular maple. The wood just doesn't swell as much. I am also very picky about how smooth a shaft should be, that's why I switched to CF, purely for the ding resistance.

 

[boogieman]

I have not had good success fixing dents in KW compared to regular maple. The wood just doesn't swell as much. I am also very picky about how smooth a shaft should be, that's why I switched to CF, purely for the ding resistance.

I'll second this.

I can fix almost any dent in a regular maple shaft. Where kielwood is concerned it's very difficult to even get a small ding to raise with water or steam. The KW just doesn't swell as well as regular maple. You can have some success with it, but it takes much longer for the dent to accept water/get wet enough to actually pop a dent back up. With regular maple it might take 1 or 2 sessions to fix a dent, with KW it might take 6-10 tries.

I really like KW but it's nowhere near as easy to recondition as regular maple, at least with the steam/water method.

I'd love to hear anyone's methods for KW that differ from regular maple fixes.