All I want to do is take my cue out, tap it a little, and play!
I have the Willard's shaper and every single time I get ready to play or practice, I use the curvature gauge part to check the shape. Every single time I have to take a little bit off the sides because the whole tip has flattened out from the day before.
My medium layered tip only started holding its shape perfectly once I was down to about 2 layers on the side walls. Soon after I had to change the whole tip because I don't think the tip side walls should be less than the thickness of a penny. Because of this shape issue I opted for a harder tip or a Triangle tip. But its the same issue... I am more then half way through this tip and it still loses the nickel shape after every pool session.
Questions:
- Is it compressing in the middle because most shoots are center ball or near center? If so, is this normal for hard tips like Triangle?
- Is the the chalk actually wearing away the leather towards the center of the tip?
- Is the chalk getting under the leather fibers and expanding the parts of tip that don't take as much pounding?
- Will burnishing the sides of the tip every other day eventually stop the flattening of the tip?
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