I got a close look at Miz's 'bushka and his shit was PERFECT. Dead flat sides and a dime shape. He was pretty 'tip picky'.As they should be.
Question about tip shape...
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I mentioned this awhile back that I had noticed a lot of the better players tips being quite flat in the center and was basically told by a poster on here that they were wrong in doing that. Maybe, maybe not, but I would venture to say some of those players with flatish tips, were probably better players than the person that insinuated they were wrong.
Was it the tip that made them good, I doubt it, but they were very good players. Personally I'm not sure it matters, but I see a lot of really good players that don't seem to worry about their tips as much as lesser players do.
Its been my experience that a players equipment pickiness is often inversely proportional to their skill level. I've seen tons of ballbangers that buy the most expensive stuff and sweat tiny details where really good players generally don't sweat it as much. This is a generalization i get it but its true a lot of the time.
Momentarily suspending the fact that tips do deform to some degree, if you had a flat tip, or at least a flat center, finding "center ball" should be much more forgiving.
Forgive my very crude drawing that I spent about 30 seconds making. But if there was no deformation, all three of the below tip positions should produce a shot in line with the cue movement. Whereas we all know that two rounded surfaces would not. You could then round the edges slightly and still get spin when needed, you would just have to aim further off center to produce it. (I realize this example is quite exaggerated, but I figured it'd be easier to visualize.)
Reminds me of time i played this cat in a local bar. The house cue i had to use had a near flat tip. I just played center ball shots and only spun it when i really had to. some of the best bar pool i ever played.
I have wondered whether a flat tip would be advantageous when shooting a cue ball frozen to the cushion. Impact point a few millimeters closer to the equator can't hurt.
I hadn't thought of that, but I believe that would be true.
Gonna have to start bringing a 5x10 case and a caddy to hand me the correct cue for my next shot.
Unless you hit on the tip's edge - that's what tip curvature is supposed to prevent.
pj
chgo
I think very few tips have a single "radius". I think nearly all of them are flatter in the center and more curved towards the edge. That means you can have a tip that is flatter than a quarter and more round than a dime at the same time. I think my tip is like that. I don't pay any attention to it except when I put it on and if I'm miscuing more than usual.
This is the answer folks.
Because I said so.
I play with a nickel shape on my cue. Bar Cue .. who know!!
When you are intentionally hitting the CB off-center (applying english) this is true. When intentionally trying to hit on-center, perhaps not so true.
If you hit off enter with the edge of your tip it doesn’t matter what you were trying to do.
pj
chgo