Tip burnish
- Thread starter j2pac
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I burnish with spit & leather, then seal with beeswax.
I use three things.
New Dollar Bill, or what ever new bill you have. Thousand Dollar Bills is optional.
Joe Porper Tool, my personal favorite cost $4-5.00/tool.
Tiger Burnishing Leather.
New Dollar Bill, or what ever new bill you have. Thousand Dollar Bills is optional.
Joe Porper Tool, my personal favorite cost $4-5.00/tool.
Tiger Burnishing Leather.
A story, if I may ....
I too use a bill (typically a five dollar bill, we haven't had 1 dollar bills in circulation for a long time). Hadn't needed one for a while and when I did quickly realized that our Canadian bills are now Mylar and useless for burnishing .... it took me a few weeks to find an old paper fin :angry:
Dave <-- keeps that old $5 bill in the box with tips :thumbup:
I've tried the dollar bill, and burnishing leather on an elk master dud, and all it did was fluff up.
Maybe used too much liquid
I usually just lick my fingers a little, and rub it around the edge of the tip. I've not many problems with other brands of tips. I'm thinking i may be burnishing it wrong, by rubbing the leather burnisher length wise on the shaft, instead of twisting the tip inside of the leather. Although it works ok for the LePro, triangle and other brands of tips.
I just use some shaft wax on my finger and then burnish with a new bill.
I would avoid doing this as misapplication of the wax can lead to an increase in random miscues.
Shaping / roughing up the tip is the last thing I do.
Same. No wax is on the playing surface of the tip.
Doesn’t matter. The wax melts into the side of the tip and is absorbed.