Best Ways to Burnish Your New Tips

Kung Fu Master

Kung Fu Master

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Most traditional ways of burnishing your new tips is to use spit or liquid burnisher. This way will only keep your tips dry and brittle in the end. Try it with Q Wax or Rx Wax. This will leave your new tips healthy looking with shine, smoothnes, and in shape. Try it on your ferrules too. Try it. It woks! I hope this helps.:)
 
Kung Fu Master said:
Most traditional ways of burnishing your new tips is to use spit or liquid burnisher. This way will only keep your tips dry and brittle in the end. Try it with Q Wax or Rx Wax. This will leave your new tips healthy looking with shine, smoothnes, and in shape. Try it on your ferrules too. Try it. It woks! I hope this helps.:)
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I've never tried any of the products marketed for tip burnishing so please excuse any ignorance. I would be interesed to know what the "Active Ingredients" are. My intellect says there would be some sort of solvent or water used as a base.....then perhaps oils or wax desolved in the solvent/water. If I am correct in these assumptions.....then the use of them would be no less detrimental than the $20 bill and spit/earwax-nosewax combo I currently use. Any solvent will draw out natural oils in leather and produces dryness. Most oils used in the leather curing process are not water soluble.....so water seems to be the logical choice. Again....I'm speaking from a what seems logical to me perspective, but would love to hear from someone with true knowledge.
 
Best thing I have found to do the Job, USE IT DRY, and TURN EASY!!!!
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I fold a business card around a paint stirring stick, lay the cue flat, and rub.

Maybe just a little spit on the tip. Too much spit will cause the paper card to shred.

I have the joe porper gizmo. I don't use it for 2 reasons:

1. The inside is tapered, so it will taper your tip.

2. Seems that the pressure needed to burnish the tip would twist the tip
off the cue.
 
That porper thing works great for house cues but on my own cue no way, not ever going to happen! You just can't see what you are doing.

Now personally I like to use an Ultimate tip tool if my tip is a little out out round and slowly turn it as to not generate any heat just pressure. Then put your finger on your tounge and use the leather side of a qwiz and turn it on the shaft to burnish, and guess what no chemicals, so you never have to worry of the glue breaking down but best of all you can see what you are doing. If and only if you have to use a chemical get the tiger products burnishing stuff but it will really harden up the side of your tip.



Besides a little mushroom never really hurts anyone, it is just another excuse....
 
I use a piece of undyed leather. Burnish the tip with it. Period.
 
im with jim on this....little strap of leather and some ear/nose +elbow grease or a lathe if your elbow is out of grease :) A dollar, cardboard, busisness card, or the top of the rail all work well too depending on where you and what you got to work with.

be like McGuyver,
Grey Ghost
 
I've never burnished a tip by hand, but then I've never wanted to either.
I've burnished hundreds on a lathe though, and what worked for me was a dab of high quality spit and a paper towel. The reason for the paper towel, and not a piece of leather, was because you can't feel the heat generated by the leather until it's usually too late, and you've damaged the ferrule. When you feel the heat in the paper towel you're done and the tip edge is dark and shiny. I never used wax on the edge of the finished tip, nor did I use a marking pen to color it. I feel these two things do more harm than good.
 
I just use spit and a piece of brown paper from a paper bag burnishing on a drill/cane tip setup. I've never tried it but I read a post here on the forum that someone uses Pepsi.
 
Kung Fu Master said:
Most traditional ways of burnishing your new tips is to use spit or liquid burnisher. This way will only keep your tips dry and brittle in the end. Try it with Q Wax or Rx Wax. This will leave your new tips healthy looking with shine, smoothnes, and in shape. Try it on your ferrules too. Try it. It woks! I hope this helps.:)
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Burnish it off with some Q wax and then with spit or liquid burnisher or whatever you use. This will keep your tip looking fresh and healthy.:)
 
A piece of veg tan leather and a drop of sewing machine oil - or if you can get over the gross factor - run your finger over the side of you nose and use facial oil - this combination keeps the tip properly burnished.

You can actually use any number of things to acomplish the same thing. I use dollars, cardboard coasters, business cards, canvas, pool table cloth, glass, wood, metal and plastic. Basically anything that's hard and flat and won't melt is good to use as a burninsher. I prefer leather but I have used all the above sucessfully.

I have also found zero problems with using spit and water. I did hundreds of tips for people at tournaments in the 90s and my main tools for burnishing were my leather piece and my spit. People said my tips looked and played better than factory new.

Jerry Olivier turned me on to the sewing machine oil. I like it better than water. Jerry Franklin was quoted as using facial oil and I have found that to be equally effective.
 
Kung Fu Master said:
Most traditional ways of burnishing your new tips is to use spit or liquid burnisher. This way will only keep your tips dry and brittle in the end. Try it with Q Wax or Rx Wax. This will leave your new tips healthy looking with shine, smoothnes, and in shape. Try it on your ferrules too. Try it. It woks! I hope this helps.:)
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I think the best way is to not wash your feet for week, then after a hard days work take off your shoes and socks and place the tip joint up between your big toe and the toe next to it. Place your hands palm first on either side of the cues joint and rotate back and forth rapidly, just like your trying to start a fire. The toe jam and other oils along with your skin will polish / burnish your tip like you have never seen before. You will know that your doing it right when the edge of the tip gets real warm to the touch.!!!!!!:)

Good Luck
 
Kung Fu Master said:
Most traditional ways of burnishing your new tips is to use spit or liquid burnisher. This way will only keep your tips dry and brittle in the end. Try it with Q Wax or Rx Wax. This will leave your new tips healthy looking with shine, smoothnes, and in shape. Try it on your ferrules too. Try it. It woks! I hope this helps.:)
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i use a dollar bill or one of the bank change wrapper things. a piece of a brown paper bag would probably work too
 
When using something soft like a federal reserve note, don't you need something flat to make sure you're burnishing the whole tip, not just where your fingers are pressing against it? It seems that a solid backing would be necessary to get a good burnish?

Jeff Livingston
 
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