must be an idiot. lol

I think your chalking technique has a lot to do with the radius of your tip. I don't EVER shape my tip after install and just through play and chalking it maintains a nice uniform radius (probably around nickel). I've argued with someone on here in the past, because they didn't believe chalk could grind down the tip. I do believe it because there's really no other explanation.
 
What’s your chalking technique? I paint the chalk on because it just seems like common sense and the chalk holds better. If just chalking the tip properly works I’ll just do that and put the shaper in my tool box. I checked the tip before ever hitting a shot and Viking was correct that the Lepro medium tips on the v-pro standard 13mm shafts come from the factory with a nickel radius and ready to play.
 
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I do a very quick measurement locking the dial indicator down on the size of the first one then using it as a gauge to make sure no different sized ones slipped through. I measure height and diameter this way, only takes a few minutes to check all of them. Then most importantly I weigh them. The last box had nine very very light tips, then two groups that each had a bunch of tips that weighed basically the same thing. A fourth group which had only four tips in it was very heavy. I wanted to keep them to play with myself and see how they played and held up but unfortunately they were lost when my shop was in a storm. Dudded or not, I found that the thirty-seven tips in the two medium weight groups played very well. I just used a cheap under twenty dollar digital scale from harbor fright to weigh them, worked just fine. I don't remember the weights and don't believe the actual weight matters, it is obvious that these very consistently weighted groups should be from good leather.

Forgot to mention, Elkmaster now offers selected tips themselves, Elkmaster Pro's for a few dollars each. I suspect they select much like I do.

Hu
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I was going through the process of figuring out how to get a triangle I liked. Did the water thing, the weight thing and the texture on the back.

Got a box of triangles, installed the heaviest one in the bunch. Way to hard for me. Backed down to something .050 grams less, still to hard.
Long story short, came to realize that maybe I'm playing with the wrong tip for 20 years.

Got a box of elkmasters which I always thought were way to soft for me. Installed the heaviest in the box, hit pretty hard. Backed off to something that was more in the upper middle of the weights, it's perfect for me.

I'm surprised more people don't weigh them. It seems to be a real good indicator of how hard the tip will play.
 
spinning the cue tip in the shaper under your feet will help get you lots of action in the pool room if new there.

so will talking about cue tip shapers and pool cases. and the kind of chalk you use.

of course if you are serious about that stuff likely you wont be able to beat anyone there. except the other fool that engages in the conversation with you.
 
dendweller said:
I was going through the process of figuring out how to get a triangle I liked. Did the water thing, the weight thing and the texture on the back.

Got a box of triangles, installed the heaviest one in the bunch. Way to hard for me. Backed down to something .050 grams less, still to hard.
Long story short, came to realize that maybe I'm playing with the wrong tip for 20 years.

Got a box of elkmasters which I always thought were way to soft for me. Installed the heaviest in the box, hit pretty hard. Backed off to something that was more in the upper middle of the weights, it's perfect for me.

I'm surprised more people don't weigh them. It seems to be a real good indicator of how hard the tip will play.
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I do think weight is a good measure of density assuming same size. While I do measure my tips, after measuring hundreds of them I have yet to find one that wasn't consistent in height and diameter with the other tips in the box. Top of my head that includes Elkmaster, Le Pro, Triangle, Some more too but I don't remember which at the moment. Anyway, the factories seem very good at holding a consistent size and shape. I think those three all come from the same place anyway.

Glad to see your results match mine.

Hu
 
maha said:
spinning the cue tip in the shaper under your feet will help get you lots of action in the pool room if new there.

so will talking about cue tip shapers and pool cases. and the kind of chalk you use.

of course if you are serious about that stuff likely you wont be able to beat anyone there. except the other fool that engages in the conversation with you.
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seagull posting
 
did it hit home to you. other wise you would have let the seagull fly by. truth hurts sometimes.
 
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