Making your own cue tip?

[JoeW]

Has anyone tried modifying a cue tip. I have read where people say that some tips, like LePro, are inconsistent in their hardness.

What if you compressed a tip yourself with a vice or took two tips, glued together and then compressed. Would this make a better tip?

I have a 20 ton house jack and could probably put enough pressure on a couple of tips to crush them. I wonder what would happen

Anyone ever try it or something similar?

 

[Rod]

Joe, its been discussed here many times. With 20 tons of pressure a tip would feel about like a rock. LOL

Use the search, look up milk duds

Rod

 

[Flex]

Has anyone tried modifying a cue tip. I have read where people say that some tips, like LePro, are inconsistent in their hardness.

What if you compressed a tip yourself with a vice or took two tips, glued together and then compressed. Would this make a better tip?

I have a 20 ton house jack and could probably put enough pressure on a couple of tips to crush them. I wonder what would happen

Anyone ever try it or something similar?

Here ya go!


http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=44724&highlight=milk+duds

 

[ShootingArts]

the real trick is deciding how much pressure

The real trick is deciding how much pressure is needed and also keeping the tip from spreading which damages the structure of the leather. The first time I put tips in a vise I had some very flat 20mm tips when I pulled them out. Very little pressure is needed to compress leather and you need to incorporate stops to keep from overcrushing the leather. Drilling some 14mm or 9/16" holes in a piece of plate would work nicely. Plate thickness would vary with the tip. One of those things I need to do when I get around to it. Compressing the tip minimizes the aggravation of tip break in and after break in you eventually find yourself with the same thing anyway.

Hu

Has anyone tried modifying a cue tip. I have read where people say that some tips, like LePro, are inconsistent in their hardness.

What if you compressed a tip yourself with a vice or took two tips, glued together and then compressed. Would this make a better tip?

I have a 20 ton house jack and could probably put enough pressure on a couple of tips to crush them. I wonder what would happen

Anyone ever try it or something similar?

 

[seymore15074]

Has anyone tried modifying a cue tip. I have read where people say that some tips, like LePro, are inconsistent in their hardness.

What if you compressed a tip yourself with a vice or took two tips, glued together and then compressed. Would this make a better tip?

I have a 20 ton house jack and could probably put enough pressure on a couple of tips to crush them. I wonder what would happen

Anyone ever try it or something similar?

It seems to me, that if that would make a better tip; they would already be made like this...

Also, when the question ever comes up of "to buy vs. to make", the answer is always to buy (regarding quality). The reason for this is greater resources and reuse of knowledge.

 

[JoeW]

Thanks ShootingArts. I like the 20mm tip, might use that on your golf club !

I am more curious than anything and I like the idea of a 9/16 plate to hold the shape. I think I could take two LePro tips, a little glue and my jack to make something, just to see what it will do. I wonder if some other tanning process would improve a tip. I will ask my son-in-law. He is a trapper wih lots of experience. I will probably wind up with a coyote tip ! They are tough little buggers.

I agree that if there was a better way someone would be doing it. But then too someone may have found a better way and they are not talking about it.

Perhaps as Shooting Arts implies the problem is in the structure of the tip. Leather has enough grab and doesn't break down quickly. Perhaps there are other substances.

One time I put a tip on a piece of iron rod to see what it would do. Now there is a stiff hit, hevey as all get out and a terrible cue -- live and learn.

I have found in my professional work that people often talk about things that need to be done but have not been done. There is often a good idea in there struggeling to get out.