If you apply Cue Wax to a Clean Shaft, and REAPPLY when the Shaft starts showing sign of the Way being gone, and redo the Cue Wax you will never have a DIRTY SHAFT!!!!
Lighter Fluid and Dollar Bills...
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If you apply Cue Wax to a Clean Shaft, and REAPPLY when the Shaft starts showing sign of the Way being gone, and redo the Cue Wax you will never have a DIRTY SHAFT!!!!
What I burnish with
I got scraps of leathr from a leather shop or sewing store. Cut them about 2 x 4 inches wet them and wrapped them around a dowel and added tywraps to hold. One was done cured side in the other cured side out. I tend to use the one with the cured side out. Cost me about $2
Again, my burnish leather is used with a piece of waxed paper in it initially. Some of that wax remains impregnated in the leather. I burnish the sides of the tip with saliva.
Paul
I got scraps of leathr from a leather shop or sewing store. Cut them about 2 x 4 inches wet them and wrapped them around a dowel and added tywraps to hold. One was done cured side in the other cured side out. I tend to use the one with the cured side out. Cost me about $2
Again, my burnish leather is used with a piece of waxed paper in it initially. Some of that wax remains impregnated in the leather. I burnish the sides of the tip with saliva.
Paul
Those of you that have used both a dollar bill and a brown paper bag (a tip I learned from Randy Mobley), do you feel one is better than the other?
Like is the bill better because of whatever property is in the ink, or is the bag better because it doesn't have anything in the paper???
Like is the bill better because of whatever property is in the ink, or is the bag better because it doesn't have anything in the paper???
brown paper bags work good, so do brown paper towels from the men's room if you can find them.
Lighter fluid? that's all i use to clean shafts with and have never had a problem (with a lot of years of use). Leaves an oily feel (not dry at all) that i wipe off with a paper towel, burnish with a piece of leather.
Never tried lighter fluid.
Dollar bills only on house cues Robert Byrnes had a article once about the higher denomination bill the better.
Brown paper towels for whatever reason seem to work better than any other towel. I'm very picky about my cues and use a very damp brown paper towel followed up by immediately drying it and that seems to work best.
What did the "old timers" 1920's era use before all the "gee whiz" gadgets hit the market?
Dollar bills only on house cues Robert Byrnes had a article once about the higher denomination bill the better.
Brown paper towels for whatever reason seem to work better than any other towel. I'm very picky about my cues and use a very damp brown paper towel followed up by immediately drying it and that seems to work best.
What did the "old timers" 1920's era use before all the "gee whiz" gadgets hit the market?
Not knocking it but I thought undyed leather was to be used. Is that only to keep the dye from getting on the wood or does the undyed leather have a different surface? As I type that I think the surface is the same if the dye doesn't fade onto the leather. I got about 50 pieces from Justis, I think they're 3"x5", when he was selling them for cheap a couple years back.
Hey Jack.... time for another run of them? You got a whole new group of customers here.