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Please help with my tip issue.
- Thread starter SmoothStroke
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I use a knife to remove the old tip. I was only referring to no blades for the installation. To trim the sides I tape the ferrule, and work the edges down with sandpaper, with the shaft cradled inside a towel in a vise. Only light pressure, because I'm constantly turning the shaft as I sand, sort of like a shoe-shining motion. This takes quite a bit of time; that's where the patience comes in. The key is replacing the tape before sanding through the tape. Here's the tricky part. Once I've taken the tip down as far as the tape will allow me, I put the next pieces of tape just a millimeter or two below the tip, just to make sure the end product is a tip that's flush with the ferrule. Again, patience is the key and often replacing the tape. I find that Scotch freezer tape is best, as it leaves the least residue on the tip. The end product is no gouges on the ferrule, and no reducing the diameter of the ferrule.
The black stuff on the edge is just magic marker ink. My favorite is the Marx a Lot brand, as it burnishes the nicest. However, these days, I don't use any ink on the edges, as I've found that constant burnishing and play darkens the edge naturally.
Cooler than the other side of the pillow, huh?
Naah, he is just named after me. Pretty big in some parts of the world. I've been meaning to look into royalties or a cut of the pie one way or another. Like most pool players I can be content on a margin as long as it is big enough and regular enough!
Hu
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Next time send it to me. No charge for 3 cushion guys.
I got a lot of work thanks to this thread.
I have all the tools. That sander has 3 speeds and 12 attachments.
Fishing reels huh....lure them in for some 9ball huh? We broke the code son. We gotcha.
You got me, my jig is up.
Icing on those Scruggs' cake!!
I use them old fishin reels for hood ornaments.
That old fishing reel is a brand new Van Staal 200. It’s more expensive than that Pinto and powerful enough to reel it in.
Best tool I see there is that fixed blade Stanley razor knife. Buy good blades, carefully position the bevel angle to match the ferrule not the main blade surface, and cut the tip to size. Shape it with my old BRAD tool and good to go. I could do about three tips an hour like that, plenty for my needs. I am easy on tips.
Laughing about those spinning style reels, reminds me of a day on the water in the edge of the Gulf of America. My partner only threw spinning gear, I only threw bait casters. We both used two rods each out of an old bass boat and things could get pretty busy sometimes. I had a fish on when my other rod started jerking. I told John to grab it, then John's rod started bouncing. I reeled in the fish on my line and just let it drop in the bottom of the boat. I grabbed John's rod and started reeling it in, awkward as hell, it had been probably twenty years or more since I used a spinning reel! He was cursing the bait caster at the same time. We damned near threw the rods at each other when we swapped to our own gear.
We usually caught a mixed bag, redfish, speckled and white trout, flounder, sheephead, black drum, gaff top catfish, a few more good fish and junk fish too of course. one day the fish were biting and we fished from six AM till midnight. We were only allowed one bull red each and the other four had to be under twenty-four inches. We boated fifty-five reds and shook many more normally legal reds off at the boat. Our slot had shrank to between 23.5" and 24"!
Fish and game and the coast guard both worked those waters hard. Coast guard came up to our boat, we had all safety equipment on board and told them what we had in the way of fish. One boarded the boat, took a quick look in the livewell and cooler without taking anything out or a count and was done. The drunks in the boat next to us started whining about always being picked on. The guard made them pull out every fish and put a tape measure on a few.
I never saw the sense in messing with people that held all the cards! I did break one law regularly. We would catch a limit, give it away, catch another limit, give it away, we might give away two or three limits in a day but we never had more than a limit on board. I did that for years before reading about somebody getting fined for it in a magazine article. Opps! No more of that crap.
Hu
You can never be accused of not living life.
I thought the sander drill and channel locks would get the laughs, not the reel. That was the purpose of the photo and the thread for jokes and laughs.
The razor is a Stanley 199, very solid.
I only use Stanley blades or heavy duty single edge I get through the garment district in NYC.
I’ve done more tips than I care to remember.
I’m with you I prefer bait casting or conventional over spinning. I have plenty of both. Today we are fishing big game offshore with rods that are extremely light and can pull a house down . The spinning reels are works of art, powerful with super drags. We prefer throwing top water poppers to the fish. It took me a while to move to the dark side.
The reel in my photo is the same as the video below. I’m selling this tuna gear I must liquidate. I have brand new backups in the box and then some when I need it.
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I did some testing and wrote an article about the utility knife blades years ago. I don't know about razor blades but the premium utility knife blades were worth their money. Didn't seem to matter much which, bi-metal, cobalt edge or all cobalt covered, they were all sharper than standard blades. The heavy duty utility knife blades are the dullest to begin with and dull faster than standard blades, I think because of a steeper bevel. I could probably have gotten five tips from each end of the premium blades but I settled for three. Six tips per blade, how tight did I want to be?(grin) I couldn't feel or see any indication they were starting to dull and I just put them in a drawer for general shop use after cutting six tips so there was no waste involved.
One thing I did, I wouldn't start trimming a tip until after I put a little mark on the blade with a sharpie. Too easy to get overlooked doing it afterwards.
I did try to live life. Sometimes burning the candle at both ends and the middle too! I liked fishing from a canoe. Redfish and trout in the daytime, fresh water bass night time. The favored night bait was a black five-eighth ounce jointed jitterbug. That thing sounded just like a coffee perculator when drug across the water at the right speed. Caught a lot of bass but attracted alligators too. On a still night I have seen the alligators coming from a couple hundred yards off sometimes. the telltale bow wave off of their heads anyway! Topwater is the only way to go if they are biting on them. My brother destroyed a lot of buzzbait spinners on redfish too. Always wanted to catch a red on a fly, never got around to it. There were some little foam spider things with legs that were killer on still days. A little twist in the line and they would slowly roll over and over attracting anything. The one and only time I almost caught a cottonmouth moccasin, his head popped up just as I pulled the fly out of the water. He looked all around, pissed!
Speaking of living life, the most fun I ever had was in a 600HP+ sprint car burning methanal and sitting on a top one horsepower cutting horse actually working cows, not in an arena. Seemed like opposite ends of a spectrum but they really weren't.
I have always believed in making my own fun as much as I could. Sometimes got me in hot water working for a boss with no sense of humor!
Hu
Nice work!
I have a friend who’s been doing tips 40 years. He can do the same work with his lathe or without it. Can’t tell the difference, it’s stone perfect. Took him years to get that good.
I couldn’t do a tip if my life depended on it.
And if the 5 ball depended on it?
Thanks for that. Was wondering what make it was. Nice looking piece of equipment boss!!
WOW!!! That's one of a kind action right there!!
I do all mine by hand as well and anyone who does has a couple of ferrule nightmares in there.
