Question for people who use a hard tip
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I use Talisman hard tips, I use a 80-grit fingernail file about once every other month to maintain the tip condition. The tips tend to last about 1.5 years.
{I don't have a tip pick, and they are bad news for laminated tips.}
I also have milkduds on 2 or 3 shafts. I ONLY use a Brad Scuffer and/or a Willards, (dime radius) on any of my tips. Of course I keep the sidewalls well burnished with spit & leather. I also wipe all chalk off before going back in case !!!
I use a pick all the time. The key is just using light pressure to give tip just enough texture to hold chalk. You've really gotta push in pretty hard to go in far enough to cause a problem. A light, tapping motion will make for good chalk holding.
Never. Absolutely never. A tip pik is a meat tenderizer, exactly opposite of what you want if you want your tip to be hard, IMO.
I don't scuff or any such thing either. About once a year, I might roll my tip on sandpaper or a tip tapper, but out of boredom, not because of necessity.
My tips last for years.
Freddie
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It's already hard. I use the pick once in a while when the cue ball isn't reacting the way I want it to. I don't use anything else other than chalk. No burnishing or scruffing.
I don't have a schedule, just whenever I think it needs to be aerated a little.
Never. I have a Gator Grip that I scuff with whenever the tip gets glossy and chalk wont stick. I would guess once every 4-6 weeks and i usually play daily.
I gave my tip pick away after I scratched a ferrule by accident. I use a Gator Shaper at the beginning of each session. Great for laminated tips and similarly good for single layered tips. Willard's is excellent for shaping, but it tended to remove too much leather when I was just scuffing to hold chalk.
Lol, i'm the opposite. I scuff (lightly) every few sessions. No tip pick though. I like my tips thin, so it doesn't bother me. Besides, they're cheap and I replace my own, so I don't care as much about longevity. Anything that gives me piece of mind that my tip won't miscue when it shouldn't...
Just installed a Water Buffalo tip, so will see how that goes. always used to play with pressed or standard Lepro.
I concur. :yes::yeah:
Chalk is abrasive and is all I use to shape the tip after initial install.
never......... it will delaminate a layered tip......... I lightly scuff and re chalk............. about once a week.......... tip should last for months
milk duds are a farce.............. get a precision or a G2
Kim
Al,
Use Triangles on both playing shafts. When I purchased the Carmeli, Ariel told me he used Triangles exclusively. Changed the Schon playing shaft to Triangle soon afterword. Used to use a Tip Pik. Now use a light coat of the stupidly expensive Kamui chalk with blue Triangle brand chalk over it. Seems to work just fine.
The cue repair guy I use (Shaftmaster) told me there are new and old Triangle tips. Not sure how they vary. Just had a new one installed on the Schon at SBE.
Lyn
I don't know the hardness of my tip! I keep forgetting to ask Mike Webb what kind of tip he puts on!
I bought the LD shaft from him and I loved it from the first shot! The first time I needed a tip I asked him if he could throw one on if he could keep it the same one that's on!
I think I've done 3 tips so far(almost 3 yrs time on shafts) and I still don't know what's on!
I can't tell the difference really! Probably cuz I can't play good
Oh well, as far as tools, once in a great big while(6 months or so) I use that tool thingy that looks like a close pin! Works good I guess! The shaft always plays phenomenal so I tend not to ask too many questions about the specifics. Less I know the better I play!
We can get caught up with this shaft and that tip thing and what happens is we start to think about "how" the shots gonna feel as opposed to letting your body play the game!
The game is difficult enough, find a cue you enjoy playing with and shoot pool! If you miss a shot, 99.999% of the time its YOU! Not the cue.
Eli
I don't know the hardness of my tip! I keep forgetting to ask Mike Webb what kind of tip he puts on!
I bought the LD shaft from him and I loved it from the first shot! The first time I needed a tip I asked him if he could throw one on if he could keep it the same one that's on!
I think I've done 3 tips so far(almost 3 yrs time on shafts) and I still don't know what's on!
I can't tell the difference really! Probably cuz I can't play good
Oh well, as far as tools, once in a great big while(6 months or so) I use that tool thingy that looks like a close pin! Works good I guess! The shaft always plays phenomenal so I tend not to ask too many questions about the specifics. Less I know the better I play!
We can get caught up with this shaft and that tip thing and what happens is we start to think about "how" the shots gonna feel as opposed to letting your body play the game!
The game is difficult enough, find a cue you enjoy playing with and shoot pool! If you miss a shot, 99.999% of the time its YOU! Not the cue.
Eli
Nice post, but WTF is with you and exclamation points?
!!!!!!!
I'm a user of whatever works. I use the tip pick when a tip gets old and I do not want to sped the time tracking down the little tin I have with my spare tips in it, or if I am getting aggravated with my tip slipping around the CB during a match. I prefer to shape and maintain my tips like my predecessors... with a scuffer or a length of sandpaper (80 grit) to just get things grippy again.
I used to just impale the tip dozens of times in rapid succession with the tip pick, thinking I was a skilled expert in the tip picking field. Well, someone took pity on me and showed me the proper way to roll the spikes across the face of the tip lightly to create artificial pores in the glazed over tip. Forever grateful are I.
Regards,
Lesh
I used to just impale the tip dozens of times in rapid succession with the tip pick, thinking I was a skilled expert in the tip picking field. Well, someone took pity on me and showed me the proper way to roll the spikes across the face of the tip lightly to create artificial pores in the glazed over tip. Forever grateful are I.
Regards,
Lesh
^ That. I use a Willards before I ever hit the first ball with a brand new tip, and generally never have to scuff it again. The only time I ever touch it up is when I miscue badly enough to glaze the surface. A tip should last years with moderate play, year+ with heavy play, especially a hard tip.