Essential guides Best way to clean a pool or snooker cue shaft. Snooker cues can often contain a sticky residue on the shaft which is caused by the varnish. The sticky residue can sometimes prevent your snooker cue from properly sliding along your fingers, which can cause you to miss-hit the cue ball. Caution must be used in order to avoid damaging the cue shaft.
But, psychologically, bigger bills do seem to add greater luster to the shaft! If the shaft is particularly sticky or dirty, a last resort - but be very careful here - is to gently stroke the shaft with a very fine grade sandpaper or Never allow the paper to touch the ivory ferrule that separates the wood shaft from the cue tip. It scratches very easily. And don't stroke so hard that you reduce the diameter of the shaft.
You'll wind up with a pencil in your hands! The tip The part of your cue that will require the most attention is the tip. All of the glitzy ornamentation in the world won't save your game if you try to play it with an inferior cue tip. The cue ball responds to the tip, and nothing else. How important is the tip? Anytime you hit the cue ball off-center, the tip must grab that cue ball and impart on it the spin you desire. A bad tip - one that is flat, too round, too worn, or too smooth - will cause a miscue.
A miscue occurs when there is no friction between the tip and cue ball. The tip simply slides off the cue ball. A good leather cue tip should be somewhat rough. The roughness allows the tip to hold chalk, which in turn is what causes friction with the cue ball.
In essence, the tip grabs the cue ball for an instant, allowing the desired spin to be transferred to the cue ball.
It's important to realize that the tip on your new cue probably has not been shaped properly. It will be free of chalk and will look a bit flat.
That's normal. But don't chalk up just yet! You have to shape your tip. What you are searching for when shaping your tip is a curve similar to that of a nickel. To achieve this, file down the edge of the tip with or grade sandpaper. As always, be careful not to allow the sandpaper or file to touch the ivory ferrule. The edge of the tip should not hang over at all. By the same token, don't make the tip too round-like the head of a bullet. A tip that's too round will glance right off the cue ball.
Once you've shaped your new tip, scuff up the top of the tip with a coarser sandpaper grade or a rasp a piece of metal with indentations. Again, this is to create tiny pores so the tip will hold chalk. To burnish the shaft, rub it fast up and down using Cue Slicker.
Use a small amount of water to accelerate the burnishing process. A simple maintenance routine involves cleaning the shaft using a non-abrasive cloth to remove oil and dirt deposited on it. Clean the shaft after every few games. Burnishing the cue shaft will ensure the cue stays slick, and regular maintenance will keep the shaft gliding smoothly. If the shaft has some deep dents, repair them before the next game. One way of doing this is by making the dent protrude by rapidly rubbing a plastic or glass rod over it.
From there, sand the dent to be level with other parts of the shaft. Finally, when you want to chalk the cue , rub the chalk across the top rather than grinding it into the center. This ensures the cue ferrule will not get stained. Remember me Log in.
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