Does this tip looks like it need replacing?

[Blue]

The next option defining the problem is,
Maybe your Installer left part of the old tip on.
People were told to do that so they wouldn't have to replace the silencer pads.
Just a thought

that is quite plausible. i'll have to tell him not to leave any old tip during the next install

i wouldnt have noticed it if not for the unusually loud ping during normal play yesterday.

 

[ShootingArts]

These Williard nickle and dime shapers do a great job of shaping and keeping your tip clean without roughing them up too much. Not only that they easily store in your case. Honestly though as long as you chalk your tip regurally, I virtually never have to use them.
I also have around some pieces of 3/4" pvc pipe with sandpaper of 180 or 220 grit spray glued to the pvc.
Works really good, just spin your cue on the floor while you slowly slide the pvc forward over the tip. I also use this after installing tips on my cue lathe after rough shaping. Just turn the speed down slow and push the pvc back and forth a couple times. With the pvc you end up with a shape somewhat between a nickle and a dime.
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I seriously considered giving people WIlliard tip tools with tip installs! Many people grind incessantly on their tips. A tip can be ground away in somewhere between a couple weeks and a month trying to keep it exactly a nickel or dime contour. Best thing is to get it close then let the tip find it's own shape for how you play. I did keep a nickel and dime tool in my case so I could show people where their tip was now before putting on a new one.

Few that weren't obsessed with their tip actually had the profile they thought they did. "Dime" tips had usually drifted closer to a nickel. My personal tips are probably closer to a quarter. Whatever gets you through the night. I used to have the PVC shapers too, cheap and effective. I often shaped with my old BRAD tool. The new BRAD and the Williards are too coarse.

Hu

 

[skogstokig]

I am not sure if that came with the tip or it was additional pad.
But I wasnt asked to pay for a additional pad, iirc.

That black color layer looks to be flaking or coming apart...

no worries whatsoever, whether the tip mech put it there or it was part of the tip. you're fine.

 

[boogieman]

It does looks bad and i kept blaming miscues and misses on this tip

So in other words it's effecting your mental game. Put a new tip on it. Pool's difficult enough without having to have stuff like this on your mind.

 

[boogieman]

until it pops off, whats the issue? dont answer
if you look for problems, you can usually find them

I never roll a cue on the table to look for warps. I'd rather not know.

 

[ShootingArts]

I never roll a cue on the table to look for warps. I'd rather not know.

That was part of my schtick! Playing off the wall I knew the crookedest stick would have the least play so I generally grabbed a stick that it could be hard to make roll. "Good enough the way I play." It usually was. I indexed the belly vertical and the cue played just fine.

Hu