Fantastic Tip Shaper

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Room101

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Tonight I had the privilege of using a wonderful tip shaping tool made by Brunswick. It was in the style of those shapers that are a curved piece of metal or wood a few inches long with a sandpaper insert, but this one was MUCH nicer. This shaper is wider and much more solid than the cheap metal version making it much nicer to hold in your hand. Also, instead of sandpaper, it has a unique metal surface with very small, sharp prrickles. This leaves your newly shaped tip with a very nice texture. Finally, the shaper comes in a nice leather pouch.

The owner got this at the BCA Expo last week, and he said they only sell it in Europe. He also said something about it coming with some high dollar accessory kit.

If anyone can get ahold of these or knows where to buy one, please let us all know. I am dying to get one for myself.
 
MacGyver said:
Sounds like:

http://www.wolfbite.com/tipshaper.htm

didnt know brunswick was also making them......good to know as the wolfbite have been out of stock for awhile.....
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Similar style, but the Brunswick shaper does not use sandpaper. Instead it uses "Sandplate" which apparently is no longer produced. Too bad, it's fantastic stuff.
 
Room101 said:
Similar style, but the Brunswick shaper does not use sandpaper. Instead it uses "Sandplate" which apparently is no longer produced. Too bad, it's fantastic stuff.
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Just a note but the wolfbite doesnt use sandpaper either, it says it uses sanding belt material and should last a lifetime(unlike sandpaper shapers that you need to change out every so often).
 
Odd to see this thread. I worked on making a model very similar to these but out of nicer woods. There was also a couple other features.
The process came to somewhat of a halt as the production costs
was high compared to what I thought I could make them for.

Now my plan is to make a small quantity and see what happens.
I am hoping to have some available in a few weeks. Just something for
me to do as a side project. I dont think the market is big enough.
 
Anybody try one of these?
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Turtle Tapper and shaper link

I saw the their booth at Valley Forge, but they didn't have one to show or demonstrate.
 
nice tool

I have those brunswick shapers at my store. Pretty pricey. I like them for shaping a brand new tip. Be careful on laminated tips with them. They can "tear" the tip material if used improperly.

It comes standard in their premium accessory pack, which will run u a clean 1800. Comes with every pool accessory that brunswick makes. Glasses, cards, coasters, ball cleaner, table care kit, dvd, table cover, the whole show.

I also have the individual shapers for sale...lol
 
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Nine ball nut, How much are you asking for the individual shapers? Thanks Mason
 
Gregg said:
Anybody try one of these?
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Turtle Tapper and shaper link

I saw the their booth at Valley Forge, but they didn't have one to show or demonstrate.
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Hi Greg I puchased one and do not like it at all. The shapers are not coarse enough to, well... shape the tip.
What I have done is taken an "Utimate" and taken a sheet used to work on Dry-wall and cut little discs and super glued them in to the nickel and dime radius's on that tool. I like it alot.
 
DEACON said:
Nine ball nut, How much are you asking for the individual shapers? Thanks Mason
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They run about 20, come with a leather pouch and a leather burnishing strip. Any brunswick dealer should have these things on their shelf. Don't be surprised to find the price higher in some places. I am supposed to sell them for about 28....lol
 
> The metal stuff they are using here was made by a company called Sandvik. It's a thin steel strip,and instead of being imbedded with a carbide/industrial diamond grit,it has thousands of tiny burrs raised on the metal itself,in a concentric circle pattern. The only place I've ever seen it for sale was Stewart-McDonald Guitar Shop Supply,and they discontinued it several years ago. They used to offer it in a set,2 short,flat sections that were to be used in places where a flat file or scraper would be used,and 2 smaller sizes to be used inside acoustic guitars to flatten internal gluing surfaces,or to remove glue from those surfaces,and these could also be bent/shaped as needed. I also accidentally found a Revlon nail file made from the same stuff. You would really be surprised at how easy those wooden sanding blocks are to make if you have access to a milling machine. All you need is squared-up wood,and a 1/2 ball nosed end mill. Tommy D.
 
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