Shaft Freeze

JoeyA

JoeyA

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Has anyone had this applied to their shaft? I was just wondering how you liked it.

I just ordered a blank shaft from Mike Gulyassy and he is finished with the special coating and will send it up to Mike Bender in Alaska to have the rings put on, where it was 50 degrees below ZERO today. Can you imagine living in that cold weather?
JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
Has anyone had this applied to their shaft? I was just wondering how you liked it.

I just ordered a blank shaft from Mike Gulyassy and he is finished with the special coating and will send it up to Mike Bender in Alaska to have the rings put on, where it was 50 degrees below ZERO today. Can you imagine living in that cold weather?
JoeyA
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I am only in MN so,... 50 below is noteworthy... -10 is the norm..

it not the cold... its the humidity.....

Imagine the driest table on earth... shots that go in Jan... don't go in April LOL

as for shaft freeze ... sounds good but I want to try before I buy... I don't like varnish on my shafts.... I like micro sanded slick wood...

I won't knock it until I try it...

but I do know that perfect smooth feels sticky... to me...
 
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softshot said:
as for shaft freeze ... sounds good but I want to try before I buy... I don't like varnish on my shafts.... I like micro sanded slick wood...

I won't knock it until I try it...

but I do know that perfect smooth feels sticky... to me...
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Interesting you said that, my main stick hasn't had varnish, sealer or whatever since about a week after I got it(34 years ago) and it's very smooth and slick. A stick I ordered somewhat recently hasn't been touched with sandpaper or fine still wool and makes an annoying "swishing" noise as it moves back and forth thru/over my bridge. They both are equally sticky when it's warm and humid around here and the pool place hasn't turned the a/c on yet.
 
I had it applied to a shaft on a Zylr cue and it felt the same as the unfrozen shaft. After about three hours of play the shaft was still clean and slick and did not require that I wipe it down several time throughout an evening of play. I ended up trading the cue a few days later so I cannot speak to the longer term playability and durability of the shaft freeze application.

-don
 
One thing is for certain and that is the shaft has a lot more chance of staying strait going out in the mail being sealed than not. The mail trucks are not heated and the cold could damage a shaft. This air tight sealing is the reason butts do not move so quickly. Like the one person said that the shaft with shaft freeze felt as good as the sanded wood and did not require any work after playing with it. This is feed back I was looking for. The biggest trouble I see so far is the cue repair men sanding off the freeze under the ferrule when replacing a tip. They just cannot keep their sand paper off the shaft. There is no perfect answer for wood that runs through your fingers but this product sure does improve the entire situation.
 
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