Layered Tips

[justintrent]

Not that I am speaking down about the Tiger multi layered everest tip but I cannot for the life of me get it to retain chalk. I have heard good things about from other people but I have scuffed, shaped, and lightly picked that thing to death just trying to get it to hold chalk. It seems like one of the most important aspects of a tip should be the ability to keep chalk on it.

Perhaps it is a bad or old tip but any ideas before I change it?

 

[Varney Cues]

The tip is fine. It will NOT get that fuzzy chalk holding texture you are looking for...like a Triangle, LePro, Elk. The Everest has more of a velvet texture. It holds chalk fine...you don't need but so much. Don't mess with it. Way too many fine layered tips are ruined by players messing with them. Just chalk it & play.

 

[unknownpro]

Not that I am speaking down about the Tiger multi layered everest tip but I cannot for the life of me get it to retain chalk. I have heard good things about from other people but I have scuffed, shaped, and lightly picked that thing to death just trying to get it to hold chalk. It seems like one of the most important aspects of a tip should be the ability to keep chalk on it.

Perhaps it is a bad or old tip but any ideas before I change it?

Don't know about Tigers but I've had Mooris that would miscue badly. I found that beating them up a lot by breaking hard and hitting jump shots would break them in and get rid of the miscues. It's not good to scuff them much or you may pull layers off.

unknownpro

 

[steev]

I never scuff, pick or otherwise shape my layered tips once they're 'broken in'. It only takes a couple of hours playing for me to break one in. Then I give it a final shape and forget it for a year, year and a half maybe.

If you're expecting it to hold chalk so's you can shoot 4, 5, more shots between chalking, you should go back to the lePro. (And getting a new tip every 4 months).

-s