Does anyone bash their tip with a ball after installing it?
- Thread starter dlao02
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I've seen people bounce the cue on concrete for a while after installing a tip. Hitting it with a ball seems a little less efficient.
I doubt you'll hear from many cuemakers that would do this. Pressing the tip before installing seems a lot less crude or risky.
I doubt you'll hear from many cuemakers that would do this. Pressing the tip before installing seems a lot less crude or risky.
icbm
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Use pressure between centers with a sanded tip covered with quality glue. I'd also recommend a quality tip.
I guess what the OP wants to know is if you do anything to keep the newly installed tip from mushrooming after the user plays with it for a while.
Some tips will mushroom more than others ... quality and type of construction has a lot to do with it.
Two examples:
Ultra-Skin tips hold their shape very well with out much mushrooming.
LePro tips will mushroom with normal use.
Some tips will mushroom more than others ... quality and type of construction has a lot to do with it.
Two examples:
Ultra-Skin tips hold their shape very well with out much mushrooming.
LePro tips will mushroom with normal use.
most all soft tips will mushroom......... some medium and a few hard ......... depends on how hard the shooter bangs the cue ball...................... it doesn't mean it's a bad tip........... dress it and play pool
Kim
I tell all my customers to go put a few hours of play on a new tip, then stop back and I'll trim and reshape for them. I think most tips need to "settle in" and then play their best. I taper new tip installs just a hair so they have more room to mushroom, but even then almost all require a trim after a few hours of play. I'm also of the belief that tips play best when they are down a few layers, but I do have customers that like their tips at full height and are changing them out when they get to the point I like them at. Everybody has different tastes.
Not really. By pre pressing you are just speeding up the process of making the tip play like it will eventually when they have put several hours of play on it.
I bounce jointed cue on the pavement often to break in tips . I tell people that too.