Shaping layered tip

[whitewolf]

when my layered tips are install with a 'flat' end, I start with a metal file with downward strokes (never side to side). Then I use the cube for a nickel or dime shape.

I have heard that on a lathe you should use a squirt bottle and spray water on the tip while you are shaping to keep the heat from destroying the tip. Without a lathe, you would have to be Superman to delaminate a tip with the cube because of the lack of any real heat.

 

[Cuaba]

Depends

Without a lathe, you would have to be Superman to delaminate a tip with the cube because of the lack of any real heat.

I've seen guys put a shaper on the floor and spin their cue in there hands like they are trying to start a fire.

Sure way to melt the glue on a laminated tip.

 

[kaznj]

Thanks for all of your suggestions. The gator grip is not for shaping. It is only for deglazing. I have the last for ever. I still found the kamui not playing well. Too many miscues. Some may be my fault, but never like this. I finally cut it off and installed a le pro. Shaped with last forever. No problems.

 

[gunzby]

Check out the video on the Last 4 Ever web site...

last4ever.net

that is a Moori that I am shaping in the demo

once it is shaped, you can rough it up without changing the shape with the same tool, or, repair mushrooming if needed.

I agree. The last4ever is by far the best to tool I have used and I have had just about all of them at one time our another.

 

[Baxter]

I've seen guys put a shaper on the floor and spin their cue in there hands like they are trying to start a fire.

Sure way to melt the glue on a laminated tip.

I've never "melted the glue" using this technique. Never had a single problem with any of the dozens of tips I've shaped for the last several years.

 

[AtLarge]

... I can play for 2-3 hours without needing to chalk my tip. ...

Can this possibly be true? With regular chalk (e.g., Master)? Do you ever hit the CB off center? Are your 2-3 hours spent in the chair watching Hohmann run 400 balls?

Have you really ever played constantly for 2-3 hours without chalking, including hitting all sorts of spin shots, and never miscued?

Call me a skeptic on this claim.

 

[abs]

Yet another reason why layered tips are nothing but hype. All these special procedures and precautions just to scuff it.

I don't have to do any "special procedures and precautions" for my laminated tip. I shape and scuff it with my Willards nickel, the same as a standard mono-tip and it works fine, and I don't have to constantly fight mushrooming.

Those "procedures and precautions" seem to be preference of a few people, and it works for them great, but that doesn't mean it's required or necessary as a part of owning a laminated tip.

Cheers.

 

[OTB]

use 600 grit.....in a domed filr holder.

 

[Rich93]

I shape with the last4ever tool using the technique Joel Pope shows in his video (see here). Before the last4ever I used the same technique with a similar tool (Wolfbite, no longer available). Never had a problem doing this with any kind of tip, laminated or not. Willards works too but the last4ever gets the job done faster.

 

[joelpope]

Thanks for the kind words

I started out making them for myself and friends and the last 4 ever tip tool is getting a good level of acceptance

Joel