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I use a Willard dime radius shaper to scuff and shape my tip. When I use it, I can tell how close it is to the dime shape by how much of the tip is still blue. The longer I shape it the less blue there is left. See image:
https://imgur.com/CTzyIG3
If I continue to shape it until the blue is all gone, then it will have the ideal dime shape. But to do so, I always have to shape it for quite a while, and I end up losing a fair amount of the tip. If I always re-shaped it back to the ideal dime shape, I feel like I would go through tips really fast.
How does everyone else deal with this?
And, on a related note, how do people judge when a layered tip is ready to be replaced? For example, the victory tip I have on this shaft arrived with 5 visible layers. After enough use and shaping, there will eventually be fewer visible layers. How many visible layers do people consider to be too few?
https://imgur.com/CTzyIG3
If I continue to shape it until the blue is all gone, then it will have the ideal dime shape. But to do so, I always have to shape it for quite a while, and I end up losing a fair amount of the tip. If I always re-shaped it back to the ideal dime shape, I feel like I would go through tips really fast.
How does everyone else deal with this?
And, on a related note, how do people judge when a layered tip is ready to be replaced? For example, the victory tip I have on this shaft arrived with 5 visible layers. After enough use and shaping, there will eventually be fewer visible layers. How many visible layers do people consider to be too few?