Cue Tip Maintenance Tools
- Thread starter Jun Hao
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Use a free wooden paint stirrer. Cut off about 3 or 4 inches. Glue a piece of 180 grit sand paper to o ne side of it. Then to dress the tip just roll it over the tip the same as you would do with the $40 Kamui tool. Been doing that for years. Don't need to do anything else. Always used a Triangle tip and have never needed to reshape it after the initial shape when installed.
Also carry a Willard tip shaper, but rarely use it. Team mates use it more than I do.
Use a free wooden paint stirrer. Cut off about 3 or 4 inches. Glue a piece of 180 grit sand paper to o ne side of it. Then to dress the tip just roll it over the tip the same as you would do with the $40 Kamui tool. Been doing that for years. Don't need to do anything else. Always used a Triangle tip and have never needed to reshape it after the initial shape when installed.
Also carry a Willard tip shaper, but rarely use it. Team mates use it more than I do.
This is not true. I have used nothing but layered tips (many different brands) for many years and texture them with a tip pik every day - with no delamination or any other kind of problem.
pj
chgo
I agree. A gentle picking (tapping, not grinding or twisting) from a Tip-Pik should not cause delamination. However, if you grind or twist with the Tip-Pik (as I've seen some advocate as a "faster" [read: lazier] method to "get the job done"), then yes, you take a chance of the Tip-Pik's needles grabbing the edge of a layer and pulling it up.
-Sean
I tap firmly as I turn the cue - maybe 20 taps to texture the entire tip surface, concentrating especially nearer the edges.
I guess so, but I can't imagine why anybody would want to abuse the tip like that. It would tear up a one-piece tip too.
pj
chgo
This is what I use as well. I have used a lot of stuff but this one is by far the best I have come across.
I would think that's no problem at all. You're just piercing shallow holes in the leather surface, afterall.
Lazy people, Pat. Tapping firmly 20 times is no biggie to most of us. But there are people who are impatient with even that modicum effort, and would rather do 3 or 4 quick twists of the Tip-Pik on their tip. (The Tip-Pik easily endures this abuse, because the needles are conical-shaped and packed together firmly. But like you say, it absolutely tears a tip up.)
-Sean
I also vote for the 4-ever by Joel, best tip tool I have ever used.