Finishing the Tip

ArizonaPete

ArizonaPete

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To finish a new tip installation, I've always used just some spit on the side of the tip followed by burnishing with a piece of leather. I've also read some AZers use Pepsi, or just a dab of quick set glue. Does something like Joe Porper's Tip Touch do a better job?
 
I use either spit, natural oil from my skin from the crease of my nose or a drop of oil that came with my mustache clippers and then burnish with leather.
 
Gunz, no ear wax?

I have a container of water that I use while its spinning. Then leather. While I am in the shop, there is a 99.9% chance I have Skoal in my mouth and black tobacco juice just doesn't work that well.

An Elk Master or a Dud is about the only tip I'll swipe a little glue on.
 
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I always used high quality spit, as recommended by my good friend Chris Hightower.
You didn't say if you were using a lathe, but if you are don't use a leather pad to burnish. You need to be able to feel the heat that is generated when you are pressing against the side of the tip and leather does not allow that. When tipping the old Meuccis, for example, it is quite easy to melt the ferrule using a leather pad. Fold a paper towel over a couple of times and use that instead. :)
 
Tip burnish

ArizonaPete said:
To finish a new tip installation, I've always used just some spit on the side of the tip followed by burnishing with a piece of leather. I've also read some AZers use Pepsi, or just a dab of quick set glue. Does something like Joe Porper's Tip Touch do a better job?
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Any water will work, but saliva is more personal and will leave traces of DNA which could be used for or against you I suppose. Even better is the saliva of a high school cheerleader, especially a blond! As a field expedient to leather when patronizing your local watering hole would be a piece of a paper matchbook cover. Slick and has ink in it. Somewhat unrelated, but most pool players are also great fishermen. Toothpaste will remove the fishy smell from your hands. Learn something every day and you will go far. One more for the pool playing dog owners. A certain amount of fleas is good for a dog! Keeps them from worrying about being a dog!
 
ArizonaPete said:
To finish a new tip installation, I've always used just some spit on the side of the tip followed by burnishing with a piece of leather. I've also read some AZers use Pepsi, or just a dab of quick set glue. Does something like Joe Porper's Tip Touch do a better job?
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How do you use Pepsi to burnish a tip? is it like just used in loo of spit? or are you using the can in some manner? and if it's just used in loo of spit, then why pepsi? why not coke?
 
Pepsi

I think you just dip the shaft inside the Pepsi can, just covering the tip.;)
Hope this helps.
 
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ArizonaPete said:
To finish a new tip installation, I've always used just some spit on the side of the tip followed by burnishing with a piece of leather. I've also read some AZers use Pepsi, or just a dab of quick set glue. Does something like Joe Porper's Tip Touch do a better job?
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Don't know about the Porper product but I had tried Tigers liquid burnisher back in the day I ran a lathe for cue work.
Worked ok but found plain old spit and a piece of leather to work just fine and at no cost.
 
Dartman said:
Don't know about the Porper product but I had tried Tigers liquid burnisher back in the day I ran a lathe for cue work.
Worked ok but found plain old spit and a piece of leather to work just fine and at no cost.
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Maybe it was a bottle of Tiger's spit haha. :grin:
 
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