That's understandable and kind of what I mean. I don't even typically believe in the term "common knowledge" as it is usually applied, because what everybody "knows to be true" could be wrong. Also, depending on the specific subject, there are so many differences due to habits, tip maintenance, skill levels, strokes or whatever else plays a part in different experiences with different products. I've seen seen someone use a Kamui Clear Black Hard to draw across a table with minimal effort. He used to make his money strictly playing pool. He's always preferred a hard tip. This blew away everything I knew about how a Hard tip is supposed to perform. So as a newbie to AZBilliards, I'm not going to be pushy about the concept especially with Dr. Dave and other real world examples proving otherwise and I'm sure it's been discussed to death already. There's always some level of difference between the science of how we think something is supposed to work vs practical application, but I will say that there's a reason more trickshot artists prefer using Black SS vs a H. Even how a mid/high level player will immediately have a wildly different game just from moving from SS to a S.
Truthfully, Kamui and others opened a bag of worms with the whole S, SS, M, MH, H crap. It’s really nothing more than a marketing fantasy to sell more tips.
Don’t you find it kind of funny that prior to all of you layered tip companies coming out of the woodwork with your 47 different varieties of hardness, color, etc. that the pool world functioned for a long, long time with single layer tips that essentially were very similar in hardness?
At the end of the day it’s a tiny piece of leather getting pounded repeatedly against a hard phenolic sphere. How long do you suppose it is before it’s hard as a rock? All these S,SS tips differ in, is how much maintenance time you spend trimming mushrooms and reshaping it before it settles into a hard form, but that sells more tips so I’m sure that isn’t a concern right?
You speak to hard hitters causing glazing in your tips, I’m thinking it’s more what you’re chemically treating them with, because there’s something unnatural about them. I installed a black once long ago and it launched the cue ball like it was a super ball. Just leather doesn’t do that, and whatever you do to it that gives that effect is probably what’s behind your glazing issue.
