Once again I find myself at odds with the rest of the forum...I must have installed 20 triangle tips, BY HAND, and I have never ever burnished any of them. Triangles are not prone to mushrooming. They will probably move once, or at most twice, and then remain stable, in my experience. What's the big deal taking just a little bit off the side of the tip, anyway? I'm not talking huge overhanging mushroom tip either. Just 2 minutes of your time...Who doesn't have time for TWO minutes, anyway? Are you telling me that if a time-travelling young Sharon Stone would give you "full access" for 2 minutes, you wouldn't have the time?
When it comes to layered tips, it becomes even more pointless. If the repair person has a bad day, or doesn't know what he is doing, the heat from burnishing (on a lathe) can completely destroy the tip. I think this is one of the big reasons for the complaints some people have with layered tips. The guy putting them on butchered them, trying to make them look nice! Or the owner did the infantry style bayonet charge with the tip pick, (stab, twist, retract). Again, one or at most two trimmings (just very carefully with a strip of sandpaper that never touches the ferrule) will do the job. But if you are playing with some kind of sponge tip like Kamui SS, then burnishing with glue or something will even make them play funny. I hate them anyway, but with such treatment they're even worse!
