Recently I've taken up the daunting task of servicing the cues for a small Russian pyramid club.
They used to do their own tip work by hand, almost every cue in the building was damaged or missing the tips and ferrule so I offered to try it out...
I like a challenge anyway.
I've been doing pool and billiard cue tip install for the last 10 years and I'm considered one of the better installers in my area with a great customer base and about 200 tip jobs average done a year not including the house cues.
After thousands of tip jobs I've almost never had a tip that came off under normal usage on pool / billiard cue.
Break tips included.
And I'm always refining my craft.
But these pyramid cues... good lord.
To begin with....
The game is inherently brutal on the equipment.
25oz cues, large heavy balls. ( bigger then billiard) and most amateur players just slam the F#@& out of the ball, Every shot is a break shot.
I've been Putting on triangles (requested and recommended) ,
The surfaces meticulously preped, no rush, little trial and error experimenting with different glue and whatnot and I'm at about a 50 percent that the tip lasts the week.
They get fresh tips, don't break them in properly and just Beat the hell out of them slamming balls around the table.
The tips flatten ( as expected for a single layer leather) or get broke in unevenly and expand breaking the glue bond, they hit new tips off the edges, bang the cue on the table...
just brutal.
I did replace alot of mushroomed deformed and cracked ferrules from them as well.
Now I don't charge them allot for the work. its more a personal challenge.
Like 5 bucks a tip Average.
Maybe 20 for a ferrule replaced.
I've installed a few kamuis med/ Hard for them on some of the housepros cues and haven't had a problem... probably because the take care of thier equipment and play a more finesse style of play.
So I'm open to suggestions, or if anyone here has a similar experience with pyramid cues.
I might need to change the ferrule material to something different Or go almost ferruless with a pad.
This year I'll go to the SBExpo and get a variety of affordable hard tips to try out,
I'm considering trying a bulletproof synthetic playing tips on a couple cues, see how they hold up. But they are not cost efficient if they fly off after a week..or month even.
Other then that I either have to just take the good with the bad or relinquish my duties to someone who might not care as much a I do about customer satisfaction.
Also, if you ever get a chance to play the game, try it out.
I try and go every couple weeks as it's like 30p.h. for a table it get expensive.
I describe it as..
Frustratingly Fun.
Hit em straight, Tronpocket
They used to do their own tip work by hand, almost every cue in the building was damaged or missing the tips and ferrule so I offered to try it out...
I like a challenge anyway.
I've been doing pool and billiard cue tip install for the last 10 years and I'm considered one of the better installers in my area with a great customer base and about 200 tip jobs average done a year not including the house cues.
After thousands of tip jobs I've almost never had a tip that came off under normal usage on pool / billiard cue.
Break tips included.
And I'm always refining my craft.
But these pyramid cues... good lord.
To begin with....
The game is inherently brutal on the equipment.
25oz cues, large heavy balls. ( bigger then billiard) and most amateur players just slam the F#@& out of the ball, Every shot is a break shot.
I've been Putting on triangles (requested and recommended) ,
The surfaces meticulously preped, no rush, little trial and error experimenting with different glue and whatnot and I'm at about a 50 percent that the tip lasts the week.
They get fresh tips, don't break them in properly and just Beat the hell out of them slamming balls around the table.
The tips flatten ( as expected for a single layer leather) or get broke in unevenly and expand breaking the glue bond, they hit new tips off the edges, bang the cue on the table...
just brutal.
I did replace alot of mushroomed deformed and cracked ferrules from them as well.
Now I don't charge them allot for the work. its more a personal challenge.
Like 5 bucks a tip Average.
Maybe 20 for a ferrule replaced.
I've installed a few kamuis med/ Hard for them on some of the housepros cues and haven't had a problem... probably because the take care of thier equipment and play a more finesse style of play.
So I'm open to suggestions, or if anyone here has a similar experience with pyramid cues.
I might need to change the ferrule material to something different Or go almost ferruless with a pad.
This year I'll go to the SBExpo and get a variety of affordable hard tips to try out,
I'm considering trying a bulletproof synthetic playing tips on a couple cues, see how they hold up. But they are not cost efficient if they fly off after a week..or month even.
Other then that I either have to just take the good with the bad or relinquish my duties to someone who might not care as much a I do about customer satisfaction.
Also, if you ever get a chance to play the game, try it out.
I try and go every couple weeks as it's like 30p.h. for a table it get expensive.
I describe it as..
Frustratingly Fun.
Hit em straight, Tronpocket
