General Thoughts of the non-phenolic tip rules

Jeeves

Jeeves

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Was wondering how this has affected the game and tournaments within our industry. Both the World Standarized rules and the BCA have adopted this a rule. The phenolic tip made it nice for beginning players to break and jump without the skill it takes with a regular tip and it was also a large discussion point with cue makers and one in particular went thru the process to get a patent on the application. These both seem to be mute right now with the below rule. I was wondering also if the new Aramith balls http://www.saluc.com/visu/Tournament_Press_Release.pdf are resistent to the damaging effects of the phenolic tip which falls into this rule and then the phenolic tip could be used and all the money players spent on cues with phenolic tips would then be saved.

"The cue tip may not be of a material that can scratch or damage the addressed ball. The cue tip on any stick must be composed of a piece of specially processed leather or other fibrous or pliable material that extends the natural line of the shaft end of the cue and contacts the cue ball when the shot is executed." also from the BCA rules "The cue tip must be composed of leather, fibrous, or pliable material. The cue tip on break cues must be made of leather with no non-leather materials added to the contacting surface." edited to this text in June 18, 2009


thanks and everyone have some ice cream today.
 
Save the environment!!!

I think it's good for the environment. Phenolic resin is derived from the skulls of the Pygmy tribe, mixed with the teeth of the rare Antler shark and dust from an old Koalas fart. The combining agent is milk from the 3rd, 6th and 9th nipple of a pregnant ferrule boar.

It's terrible how much is wasted just so some beginner can feel like a pro.

If you want to know what I look like as I write this, picture the Indian Chief shedding a tear as he looks over a garbage dump.
 
Phenolic tips

NewStroke said:
I think it's good for the environment. Phenolic resin is derived from the skulls of the Pygmy tribe, mixed with the teeth of the rare Antler shark and dust from an old Koalas fart. The combining agent is milk from the 3rd, 6th and 9th nipple of a pregnant ferrule boar.

It's terrible how much is wasted just so some beginner can feel like a pro.

If you want to know what I look like as I write this, picture the Indian Chief shedding a tear as he looks over a garbage dump.
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I knew from looking at your child's picture in your Avatar that you were probably a Vegan and a sign carrying green peace terrorist.:grin: That pygmy tribe only has about 2 people in the NBA, what good are they? There are a whole lot more of them antler sharks out there that they don't tell you about, and those Koala farts are screwing up the ozone. How come nobody says anything about that? Those ferrule boar babies can be bottle fed. I saw that on the animal channel.:eek:
 
Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but.................


Hasn't this been discussed ad nauseum in at least 5 threads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please give it up, I have, I now break with this remarkable new material called leather. In fact, I believe people have been using it with great success for 100+ years.

Yes I used phenolic, oh did I hate that TINK!!!!!!!!! sound when I broke.

Yes folks, my cue, the one that has a phenolic tip I installed, still resides in my case(at least part of it, it was a jump/break cue) and I'm now a recovered phenolicaholic.

Thanks for letting me get this of my chest. Enjoy the rest of your day as it is now a phenolic complaint free zone.

Cheers :rolleyes:
 
As far as I can tell, the only place where phenolic is banned is the BCA league (amateur league), Anywhere else around the world, including all pro events allow them. So I really doubt that it made any affects....

I was actually amazed to see how many pro players were using the Predator BK cue that I got to watch on-line streaming over the last couple of months, looks like more than ever and that cue comes with a phenolic tip.

As for amateurs, well we all try to imitate the pros....

If I was playing in a league or tournament that does not allow it than I would get a second shaft with a hard leather tip for it and use the phenolic tipped shaft for the rest of the events, kinda of what most pros did during the short life of the IPT.
 
Im confused

Post #1 and post #5 seem to contradict each other. Which is right? I can't understand the rules as to if it is allowed in pro events now or not.
What is the rule for the pro events?
Thanks!
 
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