Who makes the best linen wrap?

[RAMIII]

I've traveled the wrapless cue path and the leather wrap path, and I keep returning to a linen style wrap. It feels great in the hand and the sweat gets soaked up, but I've encountered different feels of linen wraps and I'm wondering who offers the best wrap? I recently bought a big DPK and the wrap is amazing. My buddy has a PFD and the wrap has a spiral line running through it and feels great. My exceed feels unburnished. I don't care for the tacky wraps which feels like grabbing tape, so I'm wondering who offers the best feeling wrap in your opinion? I'm also wondering if cork might be a better alternative to linen, but it's been hard to find a cork wrap on a cue. Let me know who I should consider.....
Thanks in advance for everyone's input!

 

[wakuljr]

The Irish

 

[David in FL]

Who offers the best car?

Sorry, I don’t mean to be glib, but the reason that there are different types of wrap in the first place is because different people prefer different things.

My “best“ likely isn’t the same as yours. Find what you like, and that’s the best.

 

[ideologist]

Most of the modern linens are junk. Southwest installs some really cheap Chinese stuff now.

Post a photo of the style you like and I can show you the closest modern alternatives

 

[Fatboy]

Cortland

 

[maha]

if you are agonizing over the wrap,tip,chalk, your case, etc. you have not got it together.

actually you shouldnt even feel or be thinking about your wrap after the first few shots of the day.

 

[Quesports]

One thing that greatly affects any linen wrap is how it is pressed and how many times it is pressed. Some folks starch them and others have their own methods. Mike Bender linen wraps are some very nice linen wraps IMO..

 

[middleofnowhere]

I've traveled the wrapless cue path and the leather wrap path, and I keep returning to a linen style wrap. It feels great in the hand and the sweat gets soaked up, but I've encountered different feels of linen wraps and I'm wondering who offers the best wrap? I recently bought a big DPK and the wrap is amazing. My buddy has a PFD and the wrap has a spiral line running through it and feels great. My exceed feels unburnished. I don't care for the tacky wraps which feels like grabbing tape, so I'm wondering who offers the best feeling wrap in your opinion? I'm also wondering if cork might be a better alternative to linen, but it's been hard to find a cork wrap on a cue. Let me know who I should consider.....
Thanks in advance for everyone's input!

I used to use this, it was the nicest I found.

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[wakuljr]

Cortlan

Cortland

Cortland isnt made anymore was my fav

https://forums.azbilliards.com/posts/7135873

 

[RAMIII]

One thing that greatly affects any linen wrap is how it is pressed and how many times it is pressed. Some folks starch them and others have their own methods. Mike Bender linen wraps are some very nice linen wraps IMO..

That's great to hear! I play with a big wrapless Bender and love how it plays. I'll have to check out one of his wrapped cues. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[RAMIII]

I used to use this, it was the nicest I found.

Stuart Hurlbert - Supplier of jute, flax, fibre, thread, yarn, twine, cord, and textile specialties

Stuart Hurlbert & Co. Inc. is a leading supplier of jute, flax, fibres, thread, yarn, twine, and textile specialties, including natural and synthetic yarns and fillers.

www.stuarthurlbert.com

Thanks I love that they also make embalming thread! There's plenty of jokes around this company's wraps on your cue Thank you for the suggestion and I'll check them out.

 

[Fatboy]

Cortland is made anymore was my fav

https://forums.azbilliards.com/posts/7135873

Some things never change….my inability to spell

Best
Fatboy

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Most of the modern linens are junk. Southwest installs some really cheap Chinese stuff now.

Post a photo of the style you like and I can show you the closest modern alternatives

Chinese make everything, we don’t actually manufacture much 100% in USA any longer.

We also made junk products in USA, people forget that.

Grandmother was ladies garment worker in NYC, made Mens Dress Shirts.

Fabric, bottoms, and thread were use in shirts. Made with USA made machines, by American Ladies in ILGWU.

 

[middleofnowhere]

Chinese make everything, we don’t actually manufacture much 100% in USA any longer.

We also made junk products in USA, people forget that.

Grandmother was ladies garment worker in NYC, made Mens Dress Shirts.

Fabric, bottoms, and thread were use in shirts. Made with USA made machines, by American Ladies in ILGWU.

China makes what the buyer orders. From the best to the worst. Most items sold in a Dollar Store are made to be sold for a dollar. That same factory in another area may be making products that are as high end as you can buy.

I knew a guy who was having cues built in China. It was kind of crazy. He would send everything from woods to glues to China. Then the finished cues would be exported to some country in South America.
They were then imported into the US. This was a short term venture and I can't remember the name he was selling the cues under. They were really nice quality cues though.

 

[Island Drive]

call the cuemaker.....

 

[BarenbruggeCues]

China makes what the buyer orders. From the best to the worst. Most items sold in a Dollar Store are made to be sold for a dollar. That same factory in another area may be making products that are as high end as you can buy.

I knew a guy who was having cues built in China. It was kind of crazy. He would send everything from woods to glues to China. Then the finished cues would be exported to some country in South America.
They were then imported into the US. This was a short term venture and I can't remember the name he was selling the cues under. They were really nice quality cues though.

Sounds similar to a Robert Weir ordeal.

 

[BarenbruggeCues]

Probably already mentioned as I did not read every post in the thread.
Take the same linen from the same company and put it into different peoples hands and you can have multiple different textures.

 

[measureman]

I had a cue wrapped with linen as I stood and watched.
The cue maker pressed it once and asks me to feel it,too rough I said.
He pressed one more time and it was perfect to me.

 

[chenjy9]

I am usually not a fan of linen wraps, but I really like how the linen wrap on my Mezz feels which is a sentiment that Scot from Proficient Billiards echoed.

 

[chenjy9]

China makes what the buyer orders. From the best to the worst. Most items sold in a Dollar Store are made to be sold for a dollar. That same factory in another area may be making products that are as high end as you can buy.

People tend to forget this in their eagerness to proclaim that "Made in China" means crappy quality, but that blame is severely misplaced and should be directed at the company putting in the order instead. Chinese factories will make any product you want with whatever quality control you are willing to pay for. If you want to station a live person to test each step of a manufacturing process, they will do so but then the costs will increase significantly and companies aren't willing to shell out the funds for proper QC. At the end of the day, they can make the best product as well as the worst product, all from the same factories on the same day.

"Made in USA" being automatically associated with high quality is also something that greatly amuses me as well because it is equally false. Our great country has made some truly crappy stuff, just like any other country in this world. The only difference is that we churn out crap more expensively due to higher minimum wages. At the end of the day, being American doesn't make one a harder worker and being made in America doesn't make a product better. The self-pride as a human being is what dictates how hard a worker is as an individual, not their ethnicity or citizenship. The greed of a company and how much they are willing to sacrifice quality for profit is what makes a product better or worse.