Does anyone have any experiences with the Picone Cue Tip Press. I just came across it on his website. I've never heard about it.
http://piconecues.com/id10.html
http://piconecues.com/id10.html
Picone Cue Tip Press
- Thread starter JMS
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Key to what? According to the picture, you have to press the press in a vice. Seems kind of redundant to me. What difference does it make what shape the tip takes after pressing. It's reshaped by the cue repairman during installation, anyway.
Upon inspection it looks like it forces the tip to flatten downward by not letting them spread out.
This would appear to make it be more dense, without wall the density would not improve rather it only reshape by being shorter and wider.
Nice looking tool
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if you don't use the cylinder, the tip gets thin and wide. it also tends to ruin the tip, the spreading of the tip tears up the fibers. the press allows you to compress the tip and prevents the tearing and spreading.
I have several and i have just ordered some in snooker size. They are great!!
I used to press mine with a small vise, then with fender washers and a bolt. Very inconsistant in the end result.
With the Picone press, its more consistant. Joe sends you a concave piston and a flat one.
You can experiment in how much presure you put on the press with the C clamp.
You can press softly and get a relatively soft tip, that still won't flatten or mushroom, or you can crank on it and get a much harder tip, whatever your preference.
I use a C clamp but you can use a vise or whatever blows your hair back.
Very much worth the money.
I have 2, the way I press the Duds, I can do 6 tips in a 24 hour period. If you need that many, the friggin things almost last forever.
With the Picone press, its more consistant. Joe sends you a concave piston and a flat one.
You can experiment in how much presure you put on the press with the C clamp.
You can press softly and get a relatively soft tip, that still won't flatten or mushroom, or you can crank on it and get a much harder tip, whatever your preference.
I use a C clamp but you can use a vise or whatever blows your hair back.
Very much worth the money.
I have 2, the way I press the Duds, I can do 6 tips in a 24 hour period. If you need that many, the friggin things almost last forever.
Exactly! Using a vise or washers you're spreading them out.
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technique on making milk duds?
Thanks to the OP for starting this thread.
Seems like a really great product.
I'm getting ready to buy one of those Picone Tip Press Tools off eBay
to experiment with improving firmness in different brands of single layered tips.
I was curious, of the people who already own a Picone Tip Press,
who can offer some advice as to their technique of soaking and pressing single layered tips?
Would there be a seperate technique for pressing laminated multi-layered tips?
After I buy one, I think I'll post a review in the Accessories forum (if there isn't a review for it already)
Regards, -Marlo
Thanks to the OP for starting this thread.
Seems like a really great product.
I'm getting ready to buy one of those Picone Tip Press Tools off eBay
to experiment with improving firmness in different brands of single layered tips.
I was curious, of the people who already own a Picone Tip Press,
who can offer some advice as to their technique of soaking and pressing single layered tips?
Would there be a seperate technique for pressing laminated multi-layered tips?
After I buy one, I think I'll post a review in the Accessories forum (if there isn't a review for it already)
Regards, -Marlo