Cue tip Burnushers

[Michael Webb]

Great tools for todays Cue TIPS.
NOT!
Tips with a clear backing,
Not leather!
It can rip it off.
Fiber pads. Impact pads. And silencer pads?
Yup, not leather!
C/f shafts where the ferrules, vault plates. What ever you want to call them.
NOT LEATHER!
It can rip them out.
Food for thought!
One example of a burnisher, there's many.

 

[Sheldon]

Job security

 

[yankee817299]

I have been using a burnisher on my CF shaft tip for over 3 years now with no problem. Maybe it's the tip installer??

 

[David in FL]

Interesting.

I've used that exact burnisher for many years without an issue. Admittedly, never with a tip with clear backing, though I do have pads on my tips.

That particular burnisher is conical inside so in my experience it never actually touches the very bottom of the tip.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I really like mine.

 

[Black-Balled]

I have been using a burnisher on my CF shaft tip for over 3 years now with no problem. Maybe it's the tip installer??

Could be many reasons you haven't suffered any ill effects yet.

Maybe you understand tools and are careful in their use? Could be you're working with a sharp blade that will dull over time.

If you can see how the tool could cause damage, it will...for somebody.

Plus, one can't disregard frequency/ severity consideration: one might use it often with no drama, but then...

Now that I think about it, every time you use it you are getting closer to that disaster.

Discontinue use and destroy product immediately. The data doesn't lie.

 

[Black-Balled]

Interesting.

I've used that exact burnisher for many years without an issue. Admittedly, never with a tip with clear backing, though I do have pads on my tips.

That particular burnisher is conical inside so in my experience it never actually touches the very bottom of the tip.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I really like mine.

Et tu!

 

[Zerksies]

I’ve always used a table top or a piece of leather

 

[stunshotDAVE]

Great tools for todays Cue TIPS.
NOT!
Tips with a clear backing,
Not leather!
It can rip it off.
Fiber pads. Impact pads. And silencer pads?
Yup, not leather!
C/f shafts where the ferrules, vault plates. What ever you want to call them.
NOT LEATHER!
It can rip them out.
Food for thought!
One example of a burnisher, there's many.

you dont stand and push down, turning the tool. you sit ,with the shaft on your legs, then using the tool, on the tip follow the shaft, while rolling the shaft with the palm of your other hand. any tip. no damage since 1990, for me.

 

[Michael Webb]

I have been using a burnisher on my CF shaft tip for over 3 years now with no problem. Maybe it's the tip installer??

I wasn't aware that you spoke for everyone attempting to use a burnisher.
Good to know.
Btw
These were brand new Revo shafts.

 

[sbrownn]

I was told by both a top quality cue maker that did tip and shaft work plus a separate excellent tip installer that you should never do any kind of drastic shaping or picking of any kind of a layered tip once it is installed. They do say you can take a tool like the following to lightly scuff the top later, but you should be very gentle dragging it with very little resistance from one edge of the playing tip, over the center and finally to the other, then rotating it ever slightly and repeating:

9 Inch Tip Sander

If you need to sand your cue tip, this 9-inch tip sander is perfect for keeping things under control without much hassle.

www.pooldawg.com

For my playing cues that I put on a layered soft or medium tip (usually a G2 or similar), I have the installer do a slight inward taper on the tip in case it ever mushrooms. I cannot stand any tip overlapping the ferrule sight line...

 

[JPB2]

The pool hall I started at had an endless supply of Coors matchbooks. I don’t know if the owner had to pay for them or they were giveaways. The owner could do tips without a lathe and always burnished with a matchbook. Your choice was a le pro or a le pro IIRC. So after you got a pack of smokes from the machine and a coke from the other machine you had change from $2 and could scuff your tip with a file and burnish it with a matchbook cover. With no smoking and no free matches I use a piece of leather.

 

[Michael Webb]

I saw something that is and could be an on going problem.
I thought I would share.
Now,
I'm not so sure.
Welcome to the Main Forum. Definately not what it use to be.

 

[Blue]

i have the exact one and used on a revo. the fiber pad became damaged and i had to get it replaced.

it doesnt really trim mushroomed tip. more like compressing the tip back to shape for a while but after a few hits mushrooming comes back again.

maybe i am doing it wrong, but i decided to stop using it.

 

[LarCam]

I always wet the tip with a little :spit" before using. never dry

 

[King T]

I always wet the tip with a little :spit" before using. never dry

This is the answer.

 

[Quesports]

I always wet the tip with a little :spit" before using. never dry

If you play a long session, do you have to keep spitting on your tip? If so, how do you know when to spit? Would chewing tobacco help?

 

[smoochie]

The best tip tool that you'll ever need and I cannot believe it if you guys haven't tried it.........It is not only good but it lasts forever and its name also is Last4ever tip tool.

I mean it does everything and it works forever, I had one since 2007 still works to this day. Not only that but seriously it gives the same shape every single time just order the shape you like and you'll get the same tip every single time!! Since I bought this one I haven't used any other tip tool in my life cause I dont need to.

The guy who created it also is here on AZB, I first saw him post about it here and I snagged one, its the best thing i done in my life.

You can buy a dime a nickle whatever you want.

 

[Flakeandrun]

I use the Mezz card shaped one. Works perfectly. Just about anything can be used really, providing you know what you are doing/what you want. I'd only ever used fine grit sand/glass papers on my snooker cue. The bigger tip of my pool cues benefits from the domed 'shaping' aspect on the Mezz tool I have.

I saw, and played with, a couple of pros using this particular style tool that black-balled posted, during the China open.

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[Brookeland Bill]

I use one of those long sandpaper shapers to keep the shape of the tip.

 

[3kushn]

I saw something that is and could be an on going problem.
I thought I would share.
Now,
I'm not so sure.
Welcome to the Main Forum. Definately not what it use to be.

I'm guilty of ripping off a tip. That tool was made of UHMW. Pretty slick.
It's deep in Land Fill