do you chalk your phenolic tip?

absolutely chalk. By the way is your new stick have all the misses worked out of it, mine still has a miss or 2 in it.

cheers-------------BW
 
shortman said:
absolutely chalk. By the way is your new stick have all the misses worked out of it, mine still has a miss or 2 in it.

cheers-------------BW
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Yes, still have misses, nothing I'm not used to :) , but I tend to get out of position because the stick has quite a punch; probably will change the weight.
 
Yes. And you can actually play with a phenolic tip. I used to use a tip pik to create dimples to hold more chalk but I don't do that anymore.

I just chalk and go.
 
Are you serious? You'll miscue quicker on a phenolic tip quicker than you will leather with no chalk...
 
If you miscue on a break with or without chalk then you've got bigger problems. You should never be so far off from center ball hit that miscues are even a possibility while breaking.
I stopped chalking my phenolic tip for breaking a few months ago and it's actually helped my break because even if I'm unintentionally slightly off center ball hit, the lack of chalk keeps the generated spin from being transferred to the cue ball. I'm never so far off center that I miscue...unless I'm drinking too much.
That being said, if you use a softer break, maybe like a second ball break in 8ball, you may want to chalk up so you can apply a little bottom right to the cueball. But on that note, if you use a softer break there's no reason to be using phenolic.
Good topic.
-Rob
 
cuetrip said:
If you miscue on a break with or without chalk then you've got bigger problems. You should never be so far off from center ball hit that miscues are even a possibility while breaking.
I stopped chalking my phenolic tip for breaking a few months ago and it's actually helped my break because even if I'm unintentionally slightly off center ball hit, the lack of chalk keeps the generated spin from being transferred to the cue ball. I'm never so far off center that I miscue...unless I'm drinking too much.
That being said, if you use a softer break, maybe like a second ball break in 8ball, you may want to chalk up so you can apply a little bottom right to the cueball. But on that note, if you use a softer break there's no reason to be using phenolic.
Good topic.
-Rob
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In that case...

What do you wanna play for, Rob?
 
1pRoscoe said:
In that case...

What do you wanna play for, Rob?
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So you're saying that you break so far off center ball that only the use of chalk keeps you from miscuing?
 
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