How do I break in a everest tip?

It's leather, right?

Rub a ton of shaving cream into it, thoroughly massaging it in for at least 15 minutes. Take a baseball and duct tape it to the face of the tip, then get a belt and wrap it tightly around the ball. Put the whole thing under your mattress and sleep on it for two nights. Ready to go.
 
jh3rron said:
Well I shaped the sh!t out of it. Took off a bit of material. I'm gonna give it 2 weeks and if it still crap I'll go with what I know. It'll be elk masters or triangles. Yesterday I could not get any draw on the CN out of it. My old Kmart Minnesota Fats stick can draw the cb almost a tables length. I was lucky to get the Cue ball to draw 2 inches. Thanks for the advice guys
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I am still waiting for the day when someone asks me if there is something wrong with their cue because they "can't get any draw out of it", and I hit a draw shot, and don't get a ton of draw. I mean, I have a reasonably strong draw stroke, but I've really yet to see the problem be the cue. Some tips are crappy. But if you hit low, you pretty much still get draw.

More to your point, Everest tips are not for everyone. I personally am not a big fan. Definitely not horrible, just not great. They are not what I would call a "lively" tip. If it came on a Predator shaft, it is probably as good as it will ever be the day you got it. Predator does a reasonably good job of shaping their tips. (well they used to anyway, particularly when they used to use LePros). Anyway, I do find that those tips harden up a bit, but not horribly bad. I mean, a triangle does the exact same thing. I like a good triangle too though. However, my favorite times for a triangle are when they are reasonably tall and brand new and nice and round, at which point it seems super lively and just awesome, or when it is very old and really low, in which case it seems pretty damn hard but very predictable and giving great feedback on the hit.

That being said, I personally like Kamui tips, but specifically the way I prepare them. I good compressed soft can be pretty amazing. G2 seemed pretty nice too. VERY different tip, and it actually took me some time to "learn" the hit of the G2. Once dialed in though, its pretty sweet. UltraSkin was decent too, but not as "lively" as the Kamui. When I had a good Ki-Tech medium, that was pretty great too.

Hope it helps,

KMRUNOUT
 
With a razor knife, place firmly between tip & ferrule & cut it off. Buy good tip, install, done. Easy peasy
 
plhlolelnlilx said:
I feel like I should know you but I'm terrible with names so I'm sure I would know your face. I'm usually at Bumpers 3-4 days a week.
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How are the tables over in Hoover? I have played at Sayre and they have diamond bar boxes. Honestly they are the nicest tables I have ever played on.
 
BTW the tip is compressed now and I put somewhere between a dime and nickel shape on it. I can draw the cb again. I guess I was not use to a solid wood stick.
 
tatcat2000 said:
It's leather, right?

Rub a ton of shaving cream into it, thoroughly massaging it in for at least 15 minutes. Take a baseball and duct tape it to the face of the tip, then get a belt and wrap it tightly around the ball. Put the whole thing under your mattress and sleep on it for two nights. Ready to go.
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I literally Laughed Out Loud. Best post in this thread.
 
The Everest is a decent tip. It's not the best, but it's not the worst out there. Anyone who complains about the Everest glazing over, but plays with a Kamui, is batshit crazy. The Everest is fine, but it takes maintenance. Scuff it every now and then. As far as "breaking it in", just play with it. It'll mushroom slightly at first.
 
plhlolelnlilx said:
I feel like I should know you but I'm terrible with names so I'm sure I would know your face. I'm usually at Bumpers 3-4 days a week.
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I don't play at Bumpers much, but the last time I was there when you were there Tony and I were matching up. I think you played Sam and spotted him the world while I was playing Tony on the table next to you.

And to the OP it's the Bumpers in Huntsville not Hoover.
 
Bank it said:
With a razor knife, place firmly between tip & ferrule & cut it off. Buy good tip, install, done. Easy peasy
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^^^^^^This.^^^^^^^^
If you insist on keeping it, prepare for glazing and poor to mediocre performance. Whenever I've bought a shaft with this tip on, it rarely took chalk well and was half glazed allready, so like others say, take a layer off. At least then it will be playable. I guess it's better than tips found on dirt cheap Asian import cues, but that's it.
 
Allen Brown said:
I don't play at Bumpers much, but the last time I was there when you were there Tony and I were matching up. I think you played Sam and spotted him the world while I was playing Tony on the table next to you.

And to the OP it's the Bumpers in Huntsville not Hoover.
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I remember now... I was giving Sam the 6 out on table 16 and you were with Tony right next to us. If you ever want to hit some just let me know.

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Baxter said:
The Everest is a decent tip. It's not the best, but it's not the worst out there. Anyone who complains about the Everest glazing over, but plays with a Kamui, is batshit crazy. The Everest is fine, but it takes maintenance. Scuff it every now and then. As far as "breaking it in", just play with it. It'll mushroom slightly at first.
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Yes, thank you. I've had 2 Everests, they were perfectly installed.
As I always say after a while they get hard and you cannot really feel anymore.

:thumbup: for regular scuffing and maintenance - then it plays nice again for a (little) while. Had no real issues with glazing and CB control was decent (I played Carom with it, too!).

On my test-it-out-cue I actually tried the oil method because the tip is way dry and hard (not shaving cream, that is crazy - sleeping on your shaft, I mean, come on!). Am looking forward to the result :D

Cheers.
 
Everests can play pretty good for awhile. I find the first couple of weeks they are too spongy, then they firm up and play well for about two or three months, then they become useless. The last thing you want to do is take any of the tip off, this will drastically reduce the useable life of them.
 
or1pkt said:
The issue your having here has everything to do with your stroke and nothing to do with your tip...
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THIS

I bought a few aftermarket shafts with Everest tip, and was quite pleased with the draw I got. They do get quite hard when they are 50 % or so; seems they require more maintenance than others. I replace with something else.
 
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