I have a tip question.

[islandboy]

ALL TIPS lose their perfect shape, whether dime or nickel, after a few racks. It's just the nature of leather. The center dome of a freshly shaped tip will flatten some in no time, regardless if it's a soft, medium or hard leather. There's not a lot of leather at that dome and the shape of a newly shaped tip is just a starting point for the eventual shape that the tip will take while playing.
If you keep shaping the tip to keep it the shape of a dime, it will wear out in no time.

This......

 

[qbilder]

If you must keep reshaping, your tip is too soft for your style of play. You hit the balls too firm for a tip so soft. Try something harder until you don't have to shape it all the time. Whether you like the tip or not, at least you'll know how hard of a tip you need to play with & can stop wasting money on softer stuff. You can then begin shopping for tips in that hardness range until you find the magic pill.

 

[joelpope]

I use Tiger Everest tips on all of my cues and shape them like a dime with a Last4Ever tip tool. I do play and/or practice daily and it seems like I need to reshape the tip after every session. Is this normal for this particular tip? Should I consider switching brands of tips? I might add that I am 68 years old and am not the strongest man in town. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

I don't worry about the center of the tip. The only time you use the center of the tip is when you hit center ball and for that the shape doesn't matter and in fact, you don't even need chalk.

I am more concerned about the radius of the "shoulder' of the tip and making sure it stays well rounded.

 

[Scott Lee]

Interesting, Shawn. I have a LePro on one of my Revo shafts. It's been on there for 18 months. I play with it, break with it, jump with it, and NO mushrooming at all. Perhaps I'm the luckiest guy on Earth...or I got the ONLY good LePro...NOT. You should try not to make blanket statements like this. Just post your opinion or experience.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Le Pro tips will mushroom in the first hour. .

 

[dr9ball]

Yep. Moori S tips were crappy. Mushroomed within 30 minutes of playing.

Le Pro tips will mushroom in the first hour. An unpressed Triangle will as well. Elkmasters will mushroom when you first play them. I can go on and on. All are “good tips”.

Just because a laminated tip won’t mushroom, doesn’t make it a quality tip. Hercules 23 layer tips wouldn’t mushroom. They sucked.

I have not had the same experience as you. Properly installed and burnished both lepro and Triangle tips have not mushroomed on me. I don't need to change my tips that often perhaps every year or two, depending on how much I play with them.

 

[Ched]

Perhaps some of it depends on how the tip is used. I'd think 9-ball on a 9' table would be harder on a tip than say 14.1 on a bar box. Some folks are bangers - others tend to have a soft touch. Just a thought.

 

[Shawn Armstrong]

Interesting, Shawn. I have a LePro on one of my Revo shafts. It's been on there for 18 months. I play with it, break with it, jump with it, and NO mushrooming at all. Perhaps I'm the luckiest guy on Earth...or I got the ONLY good LePro...NOT. You should try not to make blanket statements like this. Just post your opinion or experience.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

If you’ve had a Le Pro on your cue for 18 months, and it hasn’t mushroomed at all after breaking, playing and jumping, you need to switch to a softer tip. You can’t compress the tip enough. Blanket statement.

 

[Shawn Armstrong]

I have not had the same experience as you. Properly installed and burnished both lepro and Triangle tips have not mushroomed on me. I don't need to change my tips that often perhaps every year or two, depending on how much I play with them.

See my comment to Scott. If you haven’t had to maintain your tip at all in that long, you need to switch to a softer tip. You don’t need a medium hard or hard tip.