Qn about tiger emerald tips

arknova

arknova

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I've recently got a batch of Emerald tips that looks slightly different from others I've seen. Instead of a constant dark green colour, this batch of three has a light green colour.

After installation, I cannot get the tip to look dark regardless of how much burnishing I do. The picture of the cue on the left is the one i installed and the one on the right is a stock tip on one of my shafts.

I would like some advise on how I can make my tip look dark after burnishing

The tip was installed by hand w/o a lathe. Any help here will be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Clarence
 

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the stock shaft is done on a lathe. Its much easier to burnish a tip properly while it is spinning. Most likely the installer if the stock tip used some sort of burnishing liquid to finish it off, Tiger makes one. If you would like to try to receive the same or similar results you may want to try a touch of carnuaba car wax applier to the sides of the tip. Be careful to try to not get it on the playing surface as it can impede the tips ability to hold chalk.

I use the tiger liquid burnisher and it works well for me. One thing that may help with burnishing is if you can hook up your shaft to a drill (make sure you use a pin, If its 5/16 x 18 you can find them at a hardware store. someothers are more difficult to find...try ebay), atleast this will get the shaft spinning so you can burnish it with a piece of leather or wax.

Good luck
 
Unless they use green cows, they gotta dye the leather green. Perhaps it was just a batch of not quite as dark as normal green?
 
whammo57 said:
Every emerald tip that I put on mushroomed badly.

I don't use them any more.

Kim
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I know your not supposed too press layered tips, but since i started getting spongy emeralds I do. I would also tapper the tip alittle more.
 
I have put on about 30 or them so far. My second box of them was dis-colored also. I havent had any problems with them at all. No problems with mushroom either. I do all my tips on a lathe. not using a lathe isnt the problem. I think it is a problem with how they are dyed. I wouldnt worry about it.
 
Emerald Tips

Thanks for all the reply and thank you Clarence for started this thread on my behalf.

Yeah this is just something I've notice in this batch of tips. Don't get me wrong though, they play great. No mushrooming that I've seen so far.

The reply from Tiger was that these tips are made from recycled leather so there will be some batch to batch variances but this should not affect its playability.

~Zhi~
 
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