wrap getting fuzzy

crawdaddio

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I know there was a thread about this a month or so ago but I can't find it.
The wrap on one of my cues is becoming a little rough. It's really starting to annoy me. Any advice on how to make it smooth and silky again? Can I use my Q smooth papers? Wax? I've tried wiping it with a dry towel and it doesn't seem to help. Please help or post link to previous thread, I saw some good info in there but can't remember.
Thanks,
David
 
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crawdaddio said:
I know there was a thread about this a month or so ago but I can't find it.
The wrap on one of my cues is becoming a little rough. It's really starting to annoy me. Any advice on how to make it smooth and silky again? Can I use my Q smooth papers? Wax? I've tried wiping it with a dry towel and it doesn't seem to help. Please help or post link to previous thread, I saw some good info in there but can't remember.
Thanks,
David
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Try some waxed paper. get a friend to hold the cue by one end in one hand, and rest the cue on a towel on the kitchen table and the friend holding that end also. Take waxed paper, a long section of it, and roll it up as a twisted towel, and shine the [shoe] cue. While your friend is turning the cue.Do it just as if you were shinning your shoes. If this dosen't work, a new wrap is about $50.00
blud
 
Rubbing that wrap down with a towel, against the natural lie of the threads, is probably the cause of your problems. I made that mistake before. Takes a while, but the wrap naturally smoothens out just from the oils in your hands.

Blud: I have a relatively new cue that has a black linen wrap. The wrap was super black and kind of flattened (pressed?) when I got it. I made the mistake of wiping the wrap off with a damp towel when I was wiping down the forearm and butt end of the cue. But I wiped the wrap with the lie of the threads, so it wouldn't get fuzzy. Seemed to work ok, but what I did was take some of the thread die out. So now the wrap isn't as black as it used to be. Any suggestions for restoring the wrap's look?

I've tried a leather wrap before, but I'm not that fond of it. I'm used to the linen wraps, and will probably stick with that. Is the leather easier or harder to maintain?

thanks!
jer9ball
 
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jer9ball said:
Rubbing that wrap down with a towel, against the natural lie of the threads, is probably the cause of your problems. I made that mistake before. Takes a while, but the wrap naturally smoothens out just from the oils in your hands.

I use a very fine sand paper on mine, 1500 gritt
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I use a very fine sand paper on mine, 1500 gritt[/QUOTE]


Sanding WITH the lie of the threads, right?
 
crawdaddio said:
I use a very fine sand paper on mine, 1500 gritt
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Sanding WITH the lie of the threads, right?
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I use brown unwaxed cardboard. Like an end flap from a cardboard box. A little spray starch might help, but not too much or it will get sticky. Then the cardboard, and build up some heat!
 
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Frank_Glenn said:
I use brown unwaxed cardboard. Like an end flap from a cardboard box. A little spray starch might help, but not too much or it will get sticky. Then the cardboard, and build up some heat!
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Sand paper is ok to bring down the fured up linen. Spray starch is also ok, provided you can spin the cue at about 15 or 1600 rpm's. Then you can burnish the startch in. But doing it by hand, not easy and will not do a good job.

Black linen, I do not use at all. I refuse to put it on one of my cues. Don't care if I blow a hell of a sale. Will not use the cheap crap. Have the cue re-wraped, about $50.00 bucks.

The little lathe looks pretty good. Onlt trouble, you got to move the fixture holding the ferrule end to clean and polish. I only hold the cue by the big end when I do those jobs. Another words, you don't need the steady rest at the end. Let it run in your hand, just don't squeeze down hard and burn you mit.
works for me..........
rock-on...
blud
 
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