Linen wrap and humidity?

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tjmc25

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I was just wondering if there is any way to replenish(? for lack of a better term) your wrap?
We had a few days of very high humidity here a few weeks back and the central air wasn't working. It got just nasty humid in the house.

So a few days later when I went to shoot a bit, I noticed the wrap felt kind of tacky, and now it just doenst feel right, it feels dry now it just doesnt feel like it should. It kind of has a raw feeling as opposed to finished if that makes any sense. If its a lost cause thats fine, I dont mind going and having it rewrapped, as the cue was made in the early '90s and it might be the original wrap.
But I was just wondering if there is a way to get it back to feeling as it used to.
Trevor
 
Take it over to your friendly neighborhood cue repair person and have him or her clean it, re-press it, and re-seal it. That will make it good as new again, and tell them Tramp sent you. You may get a discount. And then again, you may not. :)
 
Lol Ill see if your name helps, I'm like an hour from the closest repair shop, so I may just have it rewrapped then. If Im making the trip might as well have it all new. Anybody know of a good place to have it done in Minneapolis/St.Paul? Im in west wisconsin and there is nothing at all here.
 
tjmc25 said:
I was just wondering if there is any way to replenish(? for lack of a better term) your wrap?
We had a few days of very high humidity here a few weeks back and the central air wasn't working. It got just nasty humid in the house.

So a few days later when I went to shoot a bit, I noticed the wrap felt kind of tacky, and now it just doenst feel right, it feels dry now it just doesnt feel like it should. It kind of has a raw feeling as opposed to finished if that makes any sense. If its a lost cause thats fine, I dont mind going and having it rewrapped, as the cue was made in the early '90s and it might be the original wrap.
But I was just wondering if there is a way to get it back to feeling as it used to.
Trevor
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Trevor:

Trampster nailed it. Your local [well-equipped] cue repair person should be able to hook you up nicely. He/she should have an Irish Linen press tool in his/her kit, which is used to restore that "feeling" you were talking about:

http://cuestik.com/store/product.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=162&ITEM_ID=5913
linen_press.jpg


Or, he/she would use a piece of dry Ash stock to rub against the Irish Linen as it's being spun on the lathe, to burnish it.

Either way, your local cue repair person has the tools to restore that Irish Linen to as good as new, without a re-wrap. Don't attempt it yourself.

-Sean
 
sfleinen said:
Trevor:

Trampster nailed it. Your local [well-equipped] cue repair person should be able to hook you up nicely. He/she should have an Irish Linen press tool in his/her kit, which is used to restore that "feeling" you were talking about:

http://cuestik.com/store/product.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=162&ITEM_ID=5913
linen_press.jpg


Or, he/she would use a piece of dry Ash stock to rub against the Irish Linen as it's being spun on the lathe, to burnish it.

Either way, your local cue repair person has the tools to restore that Irish Linen to as good as new, without a re-wrap. Don't attempt it yourself.

-Sean
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Thanks Sean, I appreciate the advice.
 
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