Yes, nobody can beat long-life experience.
But tips with a dome size like the ferrule diameter (perfect hemisphere) could be hard to play and to handle. Imagine a shaft with 13 mm ferule and a 6,5 mm domed cue tip on it. That should be a thick tip and I for one wouldn’t like to play with such a “sharp” calotte.
BTW: Assumed a customer comes to you and ask you to retip his 3 cues. He don’t want the common domes like Dime, Nickel, Quarter or whatever for coins on his new tips. He has special wishes and tells you:
On my player I want a 11,1 mm radius,
on my jump cue 12,5 mm
and on my breaker 13,9 mm.
Are you able to shape those domes exactly like ordered and how do you check if the calotte is like bespoke? If you can do this by eye: Kudos!
At JoeyInCali:
You are absolute right; this is also a risky and adventurous action although I move the blade (solid knife with solid grip and not only a small razor blade) away from the slow rotating chuck and not towards. I hate this operation and also tips you can’t turn clean and flush with the ferrule in one pass. I am working on another, safe method for problematic leather tips.
BTW: More dangerous is the cloth I use to polish the tip (normally I do this another way, standing on the right side of the lathe; but because of the camera, standing in the way, i did it different).
The video is bad, I will block it.
Regards
Olaf
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