i'm with you on this one Joe. i really prefer my tips thiner but i don't normally shave 'em. i just let 'em wear down normally.
~~~~Thin tip.... or thick?~~~~~~which do u prefer?
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i'm with you on this one Joe. i really prefer my tips thiner but i don't normally shave 'em. i just let 'em wear down normally.
1) a thin tip weights less and thereby deflects less
2) a thin tip is effectively harder than a thick tip
3) a thin tip brings the hardness of the ferrule into play at extreme offsets
2) a thin tip is effectively harder than a thick tip
3) a thin tip brings the hardness of the ferrule into play at extreme offsets
Thin tip for me... just a little thicker than the width of a quarter. I won't shave it all the way down to that height when I get a new tip installed. I will shave the tip half way down, than play with it till gets to that height. I prefer Triangle Tips; the harder the better.
Cheers, Mark
Cheers, Mark
LOL, I hear that same thing all the time. "Hey Joe, when ya gonna put a new tip on this cue?" "Well, I just put it on last night bozo,lol"
Joe
Man I don't have the patience for that to happen. I gotta take it down right away. Maybe thats why I have to change tips all the time though, lol.
Joe
Yeah that might do it.lol
It is still a mystery to me
I like thicker rather than thinner. I think it's just that I like the sound better from a thicker tip, more thud and less ping. From reading the posts in this thread I found that others like the thin tips because of 1) their sound (which surely doesn't effect the play of the tip), 2) their looks (they don't like looking at a thick tip, and this surely has nothing to do with how the tip plays), 3) "feedback" (which occurs after the cue ball has left the tip, so it's hard to see how this effects the play of the tip).
I know that most pros play with very thin tips and I have also noticed that many shortstops seem to emulate this thin tip approach. I am wondering if it hasn't become more of a style and image thing than an actual performance thing. Somehow it has become "the thing to do" to play with a paper thin tip. I can tell you that thin tips were not that much "in vogue" back in the 1960s.
I like thicker rather than thinner. I think it's just that I like the sound better from a thicker tip, more thud and less ping. From reading the posts in this thread I found that others like the thin tips because of 1) their sound (which surely doesn't effect the play of the tip), 2) their looks (they don't like looking at a thick tip, and this surely has nothing to do with how the tip plays), 3) "feedback" (which occurs after the cue ball has left the tip, so it's hard to see how this effects the play of the tip).
I know that most pros play with very thin tips and I have also noticed that many shortstops seem to emulate this thin tip approach. I am wondering if it hasn't become more of a style and image thing than an actual performance thing. Somehow it has become "the thing to do" to play with a paper thin tip. I can tell you that thin tips were not that much "in vogue" back in the 1960s.
I'm pretty open on this. I get real agressive with trimming to nickel and burnishing for aboutr 50 racks. Then the tip is broke in and becomes consistent and I just pic, tap or touch quickly with the shaver each time I play. I don't like to go below about 1/16 - 3/32 because it seems to get harder or miscue sensitive.
I think it is Kamui with the slow motion video. I could see from that how thickness would affect feel.
I think it is Kamui with the slow motion video. I could see from that how thickness would affect feel.
This would only be true if the tip was more dense than the ferrule-wood combination at the end of the shaft. If the tip material is less dense, quite the opposite would be true. Among other things, deflection depends on the mass displacement from the end of the shaft. In either case, the difference would be so small as to be pointless.
Give the same shaft that the tip is mounted, the thinner tip will have the lower mass (and thereby lower end-mass). Simply because there is less leather in the thin tip, and leather has mass.