Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

[TheBook]

I'm old school. I use the McDermott mylar sheets in sequential order to get back to a glass like surface. Before that though, I use a glass rod to burnish out any nicks in the shaft.

Have you ever looked closely at the shaft after using the glass rod? All the rod does is blend the dent in. It does not raise it. It basically compresses the wood around it instead of popping the dent out. Using the rod just makes a long flat spot on the shaft.

 

[vapoolplayer]

I have heard that some old time pros will take a brand new cue and burnish it with dirt before they ever take a shot with it. I don't know what kind of dirt they use but they want the shaft to get sealed and then will never clean it. They are also very careful not to get nicks in it.

i believe jimmy reid told me he burnishes his with sand when its new.

i'll actually take and rub blue master chalk on a dollar bill and burnish a new shaft.

thanks

VAP

 

[onepocketchump]

Hi Jon,

Those grooves are actually the vacated space of ingrained chalk, once you remove it from the wood.

You can burnish very vigorously to seal those pores shut.

If you are to sand the shaft as a means to clean out all the deeply-imbedded chalk residue, it will take down significantly more wood than using the Magic Eraser. And btw, many of the cleaning products you mentioned are highly abrasive and "sands" the shaft as well.

-Roger

What? Vacated spaces of ingrained chalk? Are you high? The Magic Eraser also puts scratches on my formica and my mirror - are those vacated spaces as well?

Look, I just don't like thing. I read about it, I tried it and I think it's bad. I don't care enough to quanitfy it though. Just like I don't care enough to write a book about the hundreds of ways I have been taught and discovered to clean my shafts. I used to clean them religiously. Now I don't care. I wipe them once in a while with a damp cloth, burnish them with a dollar bill and a little oil and keep my hands clean. Works perfectly.

Want a clean ferrule? Use toothpaste. Want a clean shaft? Use Ajax. The branded cleaners you can buy are essentially derivatives of these types of products.

I could do a seminar on how to clean your shafts - having done it for twenty plus years. I used to make decent money at tournaments doing nothing but cleaning shafts and replacing tips. By hand.

So keep on Magically Erasing - the world will keep turning - somebody will repackage it - slap an eight ball image on it and sell it for $8.99. When we do that then I'll endorse it.

John

 

[onepocketchump]

Have you ever looked closely at the shaft after using the glass rod? All the rod does is blend the dent in. It does not raise it. It basically compresses the wood around it instead of popping the dent out. Using the rod just makes a long flat spot on the shaft.

And here you can use just a glass. But the best way to get dents out is to steam them with a damp cloth and an iron.

Or maybe a Magic Dent Puller. )

John

 

[skchengdds]

Have you ever looked closely at the shaft after using the glass rod? All the rod does is blend the dent in. It does not raise it. It basically compresses the wood around it instead of popping the dent out. Using the rod just makes a long flat spot on the shaft.

I haven't found that to be the case. But I've only used it on tiny dents. Other people heat up the wood to lift the dents, but that's always made me nervous. Cleaning and reconditioning a shaft is definitely a labor of love though

 

[skchengdds]

And here you can use just a glass. But the best way to get dents out is to steam them with a damp cloth and an iron.

Or maybe a Magic Dent Puller. )

John

Actually, I use an old glass vacuum tube. Easier to grip I've always been too nervous to place an iron on my shaft. I can't even iron a pair of pants!!

 

[Hal]

Or maybe a Magic Dent Puller. )

No, it's Magic Dent Eraser...

 

[DaveK]

But the best way to get dents out is to steam them with a damp cloth and an iron.

If you have a soldering iron you can apply steam to a smaller area, and they are easier to handle. Just a little tip from an old electronics hack.

Dave, who uses ME now and then for cleaning shafts and ferrules, whenever I get motivated to clean things, which is not very often ...

 

[lunchmoney]

Cleans Irish Linen Wrap Too

A friend of mine used the eraser to clean the light colored Irish Linen Wrap on an old Huebler. 20 years of dirt and grease disappeared and the wrap looked brand new. That was two months ago and there hasn't been any problems with fraying, separation etc.

Lunchmoney

 

[Tbeaux]

And here you can use just a glass. But the best way to get dents out is to steam them with a damp cloth and an iron.

Or maybe a Magic Dent Puller. )

John

Dents? Sounds like a way to remove craters.

My way:

1. Using wet Q-tip-wet only the dent.
2. Using cigarette (not for u nonsmokers )- hold tip of cig slightly above wood (don't burn),puff up to keep cig hot, move heat around edges of dent.
3. Using 2000 grit or finer sandpaper or micromesh- wrap and sand just enough to remove the raised fibers and smooth shaft.
4. Wax with carnuba.

Terry

 

[sixpack]

This is kinda gross but there is almost always oil right along side the nose. I use it on the sides of the tip as well.

In response to the pro Magic Eraser crowd: If you look closely you will see that the Magic Eraser actually makes grooves on the shaft and the ferrule. I don't know but I am going to assume that these grooves would be more prone to collect dirt and debris. To me the only way to smooth out the grooves would be to sand them out. Which kind of defeats the purpose.

But I am sure that cuemakers would be more than happy to to see anything that whittles shafts down faster.

John

John,

Getting the oil on the sides of the tip was okay, but when I tried to get it on the rest of the shaft, I almost poked my eye out. Any suggestions?

please advise.

Regas

 

[buddha162]

Are you high?

I wasn't when I made the post, but I am now...

That's funny 'cause after I read you burnished shafts with nose oil, I thought you were high.

-Roger

 

[onepocketchump]

I wasn't when I made the post, but I am now...

That's funny 'cause after I read you burnished shafts with nose oil, I thought you were high.

-Roger

It's better if you are high when you do it. But hey, good enough for Jerry Franklin of Southwest Cues is good enough for me.

Actually, I really only do the tip with oil. The shafts are burinshed with ones and fives since they are the most handled bills and have enough latent oil on them to do the trick.

If facial oil is tto gross then use a drop of sewing oil.

John

 

[Hal]

John,

Getting the oil on the sides of the tip was okay, but when I tried to get it on the rest of the shaft, I almost poked my eye out. Any suggestions?

please advise.

Regas

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there....