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Brass X-pole!
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Grip is SO much better!!!!!!!! I wipe the pole down maybe twice max in an hour-1.5hr session with some glass cleaner on a cloth and it gets the grip back for me, but otherwise I barely slip, and if I do it's cos my hands are suddenly sweating (they seem to get sweaty if I think about a move too much and get nervous LOL)
I AM SO HAPPY I got my brass xpole!!!!!! it's so much better to use than a chrome one for me 🙂
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Wow, that is so great to hear, ladies!
It's such a huge indulgence for me if I were to splurge on a Brass X-Pert right now. I am looking at a crash mat for pole from a friend who is importing some over. She's giving it to me at a special price and it was more expensive than I thought.
I think I would rather invest in that right now than to think seriously about selling my Chrome and buying a Brass straight away. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gifIf only I knew someone who wanted my Chrome! HAHA. That would be nice…
Glad to hear that it's not as high maintenance as I thought.
Have either or your's started to tarnish a bit at all?
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Hi Shellectra,
Which website did you order your brass X-pole from? I want to buy one too!!
Thanks in advance 🙂
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joyful – Not much tarnish at all on mine, a small fingerprint sized area at the very top of the pole and a few dots about waist height, so really not much tarnishing at all!
chwenny – i live in australia so I got mine off the australian xpole website 🙂
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I’m another one with a 45mm chrome xpert xpole and I have been looking into the brass too because I also have a terrible time with grip due to my damned sweaty hands!!!
Reading that it is a softer metal scares me though because I’d be worried that I’d strip the threads in no time!
I started using metho to clean it with no luck…then used window cleaner for a bit and still no luck. Now I just use straight white vinegar in a spray bottle and that seems to help alot more….but just not enough!!!
Keep us informed on how Mr Brassy is holding up Shellectra!! You may just convert me to getting a brassy myself!! 🙂 -
5 Butterflys….the threads are not made of brass. There was discussion about the bottom piece that slides over the adjuster and dome looking like they were another material, which they are (titanium gold). There are very very very fine threads on the cover piece that keep it in place that would not be good if that piece was made of brass.
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Hey ladies, many of you have compared the brass to the chrome poles but i'm wondering how you guys think it compares to the titanium gold pole. i'm wondering which i should get and hearing how you all are so fed up with the slick chrome polehttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif makes me think i should invest in…well, not a chrome polehttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif sooo…i don't know, should i stick it out for the awesome grippy brass pole you're all raving about (even though i'm a little worried about the wear and tare of it and maintenance) or is the titanium gold a nice happy easy to maintain medium?https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif
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I have tried titanium, titanium gold, chrome and brass and I prefer my brass by far.
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Hi Shellectra…I have just bought myself a 45inch brass x-pole!! arrived a couple of days ago. I have always found brass good to use and have had equal success with sticking to both chrome and brass at my pole studio. I must say tho that I am a little worried about my new brassy pole friend! It seems to havve more of a brushed finish than the brass that I am used too, the studio poles (which ARE definatley brass) seem more polished and shiny than my xpole!! and I cant do half the stuff I can do in class on it for the dry slide I have. No pole sits, no bat holds, no scorpio gemminis at ALL can be achieved! WtF!! Did you do anything to the finish of your pole after recieving it to adjust the manufactures finish on the brass? I feel that the only thing I am going to do is to completley slather my body in Mighty Grip!!!! Help….AnYoNe??
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I just sold my brand new brass Xpole because it was so slippery.
Xpole do not use real brass, it’s only a spray on brass coating or “finish”.
The brass coating will wear off over time.
I was told that each batch of brass xpoles will be different as the quality of the brass coating will vary.
Xpole are unable to make their poles solid brass as it is a softer metal and a multi piece pole would not hold up if it was real brass.
I am saving my money for a solid brass pussycat pole.
I know that @Shellectra and many other people love their brass xpoles but I was not one of them.
I was really dissaponted in the finish.
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Thanks 5Butterflies!! I am having exactly the same issues and am truely disappointed ahy…so sad. I am going tomake a real effort to talk to the manufacturers about this and find out id there is anything i can do to improve its finish. thanks for the heads up on the brass coating on it. The only thing i find gets me to stick is if i have a slight amount of sweat moisture on my skin to provide tackiness momentarily….if anyone sticks with their brass x-pole ok…how do you do it, do you use grip aids, or nothing at all?
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What?! I thought it was solid brass, beause I once emailed x-pole in australia and asked them about that.
This is what I asked: "Are the brass poles solid brass, or is it just some kind of brass coating and some other metal underneath?"
This is the answer I got: "They are brass. Light soft metal. So yes solid brass."
How do you know for sure it's just a coating?
I have nickel allergy and when the poles have been used for some time the nickel starts to appear, and that goes for both the chrome and the titanium gold. And I thought since the brass would be solid brass, it would be alright.
I can still use my chrome at home, but not the poles in class. My instructor was thinking about getting a brass when they have them in stock in the UK(I live in Sweden), but if it's going to be the same nickel-problem with the brass it wouldn't be much use getting one. So then the only alternatives would be a colored Lil' Mynx pole. Or a stainless steel, but I've heard they're very slippery…
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Yep it’s true I’m afraid! I don’t know why they told you it was solid brass because it defintly is not 🙁
Xpole Australia confirmed this with me less than a month ago.
I don’t recommend Xpole to anyone. I’d get a Lil Mynx or some other brand.
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So I called Xpole today just to enquire about the brass pole and I spoke to a lady named Diana.
She told me that they are def not solid brass, but she said that it is a “mix” of a few different metals. Alloy being the main one.
Funnily though, the other lady I spoke to previously, Jessie, was pretty clear that it was just a brass “coating”.So, if 2 staff from the same company have different opinions of what the pole is made of then where does that leave the customer?!
I don’t trust them at all.
The amount of time and stress that from Xpole caused me by not replying to my emails, not answering any of the phones, not having an answering machine to leave messages, me having to chase EVERYTHING up with them, diana telling me parts had been sent when they hadn’t at all, then sending my pole to my OLD address when I had changed my details with Diana and told her to delete my old address from her system. When I queried her with the whereabouts of my pole, making sure she didn’t post it to my old address, she belittled me and assured me she would not have done that, and procceeded to tell me the courier had tried several times to deliver the pole and I must have not been home (as if! I’d been waiting by the door for almost a week! He had been trying to deliver to my old address that she ‘didn’t’ send it too. GRRRRR).
So I call the courier company to find out what is going on, and low and behold she DID send it to my old address!!!!!!!
The worst bit being though that she had tried to fix it up herself with the courier and didn’t let me know! She just contined to make me feel like a complete idiot for even having the idea that she may have made a mistake!!! ARRRGGGHHHH!!I was absolutely FURIOUS!!!!
So that is why I don’t trust Xpole OR do I believe a word they say, especially what the lady Diana says anyhow.
Sorry for that turning into a massive rant I had to get it off my chest and let everyone know why I hate Xpole so much!!
It was the worst customer service I have ever seen.So no, the poles are not solid brass.
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I have a brass xpole and I had the same problem that you are having now- I was devastated !
No stick on my body but great grip on my hands.
What changed all that was making sure that my pole room had been heated up about ten mins before I went in there and I made sure I’d put moisturizer on either the day before or morning of poling.
Hope this helps you!
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