How to clean a mushroom?

The common method is to rub the dirt off of them with a towel. They say soaking in water can water log them.

Now for the real answer:
1. Shave it off, easiest on a lathe but they make tools that work to varying degree OR if small just burnish it back into the tip.
2. Not really. Not really. It can bug someone enough that it becomes a mental block in their game. Sometimes it looks bad and distracts you, any distractions can cause problems.

If you play with hard tips or milkduds they seldom mushroom. I like @pooldawg8 milkduds and they do not mushroom.
 
I watched Jack White trim up a mushroomed tip on a house cue, with a pen knife. He then burnished it on the rail cloth. This was during an exhibition he put on at my college. Old school stuff, back in the 1970s.
 
Lay your shaft on a table and roll it back and forth with your palm while your other hand holds a flat file against the tip's mushroomed edge.

pj
chgo
 
skor said:
this is great

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Sometimes you have to wonder how much it matters as when you see close ups of some top snooker players, their tips are quite mushroomed back. I have a cue lathe though, so I usually trim it back once after the first months use, just because, and never have to after that.
 
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Wrap ferrule with 2 layers of cellophane tape.
Use 80-120 grit finger nail file to slowly abrade away the excess leather
...you can do this with the rotary motion above, or single strokes while rotating cue in other hand.

After the tip is back to ferrule size,
wet the edge of the tip with saliva and burnish with heavy paper (brown bag).

Then remove tape protecting the ferrule.
 
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