How to get a factory quality scuff

8-Ball Player said:
Well, is there anyway/tool that will give you a factory quality scuff and shape? I bought the cue cube, and it blows!!!:mad:
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Ive gotten to where all i use is a ultimate tip tool. I love it! Has a dime and nickel shaper, a burnisher, and a scuffer. If you use it a lot you may have to replace the sand papers in the shapers every couple months but there only $2.
 
cueman86 said:
Ive gotten to where all i use is a ultimate tip tool. I love it! Has a dime and nickel shaper, a burnisher, and a scuffer. If you use it a lot you may have to replace the sand papers in the shapers every couple months but there only $2.
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Hmm, I was thinking about getting that one, but someone told me it ate the crap out of their ferrel.
 
Let me see. A factory scuff is done at average 1500 RPMs on a lathe using coarse sand paper. So if you can rotate your cue at 1500 RPMs you should have no problem getting a factory scuff with the cue cube. I know I an being a little silly here. But if you want factory quality work you will need a lathe, or at least a drill to spin your shaft with. I have seen people wedget he cue cube between their shoes and stick the tip into it and spin the shaft back and forth into it as fast as they can like a boy scout trying to start a fire. That is the next best thing to a drill or lathe.
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
 
cueman said:
I have seen people wedget he cue cube between their shoes and stick the tip into it and spin the shaft back and forth into it as fast as they can like a boy scout trying to start a fire.
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I've done that with my Willard as well :)

I only have to reshape about every three months or so with my Triangle Medium Tip (unless I break with it).
 
8-Ball Player said:
Hmm, I was thinking about getting that one, but someone told me it ate the crap out of their ferrel.
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I've been using an Ultimate tool to reshape my tip(s) for years... no problems.

The only way I could see ruining your ferrule would be to take a 13 (or +) mm ferrule/tip combination whose tip is about ready to be replaced and try to get a dime radius on it using the smaller diameter cup on the Ultimate tool. If you were to do this, you might grind down the outer top edge of your ferrule a bit.
 
cueman said:
Let me see. A factory scuff is done at average 1500 RPMs on a lathe using coarse sand paper. So if you can rotate your cue at 1500 RPMs you should have no problem getting a factory scuff with the cue cube. I know I an being a little silly here. But if you want factory quality work you will need a lathe, or at least a drill to spin your shaft with. I have seen people wedget he cue cube between their shoes and stick the tip into it and spin the shaft back and forth into it as fast as they can like a boy scout trying to start a fire. That is the next best thing to a drill or lathe.
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
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haha, I may try that, it sounds a little rough on the tip though.
 
cigardave said:
I've been using an Ultimate tool to reshape my tip(s) for years... no problems.

The only way I could see ruining your ferrule would be to take a 13 (or +) mm ferrule/tip combination whose tip is about ready to be replaced and try to get a dime radius on it using the smaller diameter cup on the Ultimate tool. If you were to do this, you might grind down the outer top edge of your ferrule a bit.
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I think they were talking about the de-mushrooming forks on the bottom which if not used properly will wreck the shit out of your ferrule
 
cueman said:
Let me see. A factory scuff is done at average 1500 RPMs on a lathe using coarse sand paper. So if you can rotate your cue at 1500 RPMs you should have no problem getting a factory scuff with the cue cube. I know I an being a little silly here. But if you want factory quality work you will need a lathe, or at least a drill to spin your shaft with. I have seen people wedget he cue cube between their shoes and stick the tip into it and spin the shaft back and forth into it as fast as they can like a boy scout trying to start a fire. That is the next best thing to a drill or lathe.
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
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I use the 9" sandpaper shaper. With practice you'll be able to do just as good of a job as a lathe, and better than the "fire starters." Then just lick & burnish...
 
cueman86 said:
Ive gotten to where all i use is a ultimate tip tool. I love it! Has a dime and nickel shaper, a burnisher, and a scuffer. If you use it a lot you may have to replace the sand papers in the shapers every couple months but there only $2.
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An Ultimate Tip Tool + a Tip Pik (the needly thing that attacked JoeyA) is all I've used for years. I use the Pik every time I play (sometimes more than once) to "rough" the tip so it holds chalk well, but it removes no material so no problem. I only use the shaper part of the Ultimate (never the burnishing doohickey), and only shape occasionally and only enough to round off the very edges of the tip again after it flattens from use.

I use Mooris and replace them about twice a year at most.

pj
chgo
 
When I was in the Marine Corps I used to take the house cues out back at the bars and scuff the tips on the concrete or asphalt. (Improvise)

Nowadays I just use the tip tapper that Jack Justis provides with his cases. I like it a lot.
 
Hal said:
When I was in the Marine Corps I used to take the house cues out back at the bars and scuff the tips on the concrete or asphalt. (Improvise)

Nowadays I just use the tip tapper that Jack Justis provides with his cases. I like it a lot.
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ha...remember that well...

hows'bout this one:

no chalk..no problem..just use the ashes out of the nearest ashtray.. sit that bad boy on the floor and twist the tip around in there for sec....


shane <----- not to big a difference between ex Marines and ex Soldiers..
 
Hal said:
Except for the fact that I could whoop yer ass.
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LOL, bet you could Hal.... might be a tough tangle tho.:p

Always liked the word whoop.

Jigger < -- vicious X Air Guarder who shaped tips with a dirty broken beer bottle
 
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bigskyjake said:
I think they were talking about the de-mushrooming forks on the bottom which if not used properly will wreck the shit out of your ferrule
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Hey, them scrape marks add character to the ferrule! And they hold chalk real well! Kinda lika guy who shaves with a nicked razor blade!
 
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