If someone throws shade at me, it is coming right back at after I learn about it. I didn’t notice the age of the other guy’s post. I dunno who he is so he’s inconsequential. I posted it wasn’t a good idea for a pool product but I’ll still salute those with entrepreneurial spirit to develop a new product. This particular one made very little sense and just seemed impractical.
how about ordering tips that are the exact size of yours and go on without needing any shaping after.
That's one of the issues with the soft core tips, it has to be perfectly centered and it's size specific. Some adjustability but would need to be in .2 mm increments. One of the reasons I haven't brought them to market along with the materials issues.
I would like that as well, but unfortunately the place I asked for doesn't accept something with a carbon fiber shaft. so I ended up doing it myself which I no longer mind since I'm getting proficient at it. still not perfect but atleast getting to the point that installing tips is just second nature. resizing the tip to a perfect 11.5mm though is my only concern since I'm still leaving a slight allowance on the sides and don't want to shave it off further down which is still fine. by my assessment, it should be around 12mm. as far as shaping, I have no problems using my tip tool to what degree I shape it.
Soft centers.
Don't feel like the lone ranger.
I could design a tip trimming tool that would adjust to a shaft size if people might be interested in that. It would at least get it really close and then can be sanded the last fractions of mm by hand.
you are not talking about this one, are you?
I was hoping that we have manufacturers that sell tips of typical sizes now that are already cut and shaped. do they still expect people to play with 14mm tips? pretty much the standard now is less than 13mm. hopefully they get the drift. also, I hate using the typical trimmer/sharpener. they don't cut good. I find doing it manually with a box cutter faster and much better.
Similar. but what I was envisioning would automatically adjust size to your shaft and you wouldn't have to rotate it, you would just push the handle down and it would auto adjust and rotate cutting the tip close to the diameter of the shaft.
I think you could do that with a fairly simple attachment to a Dremel tool.
I was considering a dremel for convenience but then a dremel is quite expensive just for that purpose. if I was a handyman and doing a lot of work, I would have no problem purchasing one. having said that, let me look at the used market.
The TAOM Fusion tip was the last tip I tried before going to the Bulletproof Recoil tip, I thought it would be similar to the Kamui Athlete tip but it was much harder, I was not a fan of hard tips but if I try a new tip I like to give it a couple of months before giving up on it, after a while I grew to like a hard tip, the Bulletproof Recoil tip is a BCA legal synthetic tip, not leather, I was reluctant to try it but it wouldn't be the first tip I tried and moved on from, it's been almost a year and I love these tips, I knew it within the first hour of playing with them, I don't know what the other tips play like but after a year I like these tips better than I first got it, if you're searching it's worth a look.
