I just had to read this thread since I thought Jay Helfert were giving advice about hair... 

I just had to read this thread since I thought Jay Helfert were giving advice about hair...![]()
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is this really way to high? its like 4-5mm. I took off 3-4 layers when i bought it and shaped it to a dome. Looks normal to meit had 11 layers originaly.
Keep those hairy balls advice coming :grin-square:
ok thanks for the advice guys![]()
im a dy hard kamui too. I prefere them over sniper (even if sniper aint bad at all either)
ill trow the sandingpaper away, and find a tapper and a tippick.
woody: i love the way a tip comes with a new cue. Not hairy ofc :grin-square: but i dont know what other word to use. very tiny pieces of leather sticking out that grips the CB. i can get the same result with sandpaper but it wears my tip out far to fast.
I miscue ALOT (especially on shots where CB is close to the rail, and i want to use a level cue) i never feel comfortable playing these shots, as im scared as hell that i'll miscue.
Here is a pic of the the "hairy" part that im looking after in a tip, but this never last longer then 10 racks, before the tip is totally flat and looks glazed like the sides of the tip.
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picture is from end of octobre, im down to the last layer and its march...
try a milk dud, they are hairy as hell. so much infact you can't really burnish them, not that they mushroom anyway.
i rub my tip on the carpet when i'm done, since I put on a milk dud, i end up with hair/carpet fibers stuck to it.
What are milk duds? tip company?
Oh no he di-int :duck:
About this subject, I only have a 2 in 1 rule :
A tip is like a friend's girlfirend, you can look at it but NEVER touch it !
Since I've applied this rule, I keep my sniper tip for more than 1.5 year... and my friends too.
...Its not that i mind changing tips often. Perfect thing to do when i'm bored late at night. I prefere feeling confidend during a match, then being lazy at home. But as i thought i was buying to many tips, i tought i could get the same result, without all the work...
I always have played with hard or med-hard tip (Le Pro, Triumph, etc.) . I think that they provide more consistency than soft tips. I try lately (last 3 years) layered tips. First Moori, then Kamui and finally Sniper. I really didn't like the feeling of the Moori and the Kamui but litterally felt in love with the Sniper. IMO, once a sniper (or any other good layered tip) tip is shapped you don't have to touch it anymore until you change it (at least ten years later LOL). It keeps its shape and just stays perfect. Misscues are often the result of a lack of confidence on some given shots. So keep the time you spend on reshapping and changing your tips to practice these shots and you will promptly decrease your misscues stats.:thumbup:
I'm not someone who does much with tips, in fact I never changed my own, I have the house guy do it. But I get some mileage out of my tips and no problems with them so I think I'm doing something right. I think using one of these is ideal.
I rough it up without applying a ton of pressure, but thoroughly, so that it gets VERY hairy. You want the thing to look like buckwheat's head afterwards. Not only does it trap a lot of chalk, but I think the extra 'hair' helps protect longer against glazing.
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is this really way to high? its like 4-5mm. I took off 3-4 layers when i bought it and shaped it to a dome. Looks normal to meit had 11 layers originaly.
Keep those hairy balls advice coming :grin-square:
If i could find a tip that stays this hairy (with some work) for ALL his lifetime, thats the tip im looking after (does it even exist?)