seanjonsean said:
thanxz greg i have everest on my house cue med on my viking sniper on my kaiser break cue and just now soft on my lucasi ,oh and i tried reshaping the tip myself just awhile ago and it came apart ouch! ill leave it to the pros to install a new one ...
I've been there too,
I started out many years ago tipping My own cues for 2 reasons, for one, frankly at the time I could'nt afford to pay someone else to do it half the time, but also because there was noone in My local area then, altough when I played tourneys out of town, I would sometimes have someone do some work for me. That was the start for me. I was using what hand tools I could gather up, kept building them up, as other players would ask to have their cue tipped also. Then got a wood lathe so shafts could be cleaned and polished easier, then came the ferrule work, so had to have the taylor tenon machine. Used these tools for years, learned there in and outs, Limitations of what little i had to work with, and was able to do a decent job eventually, but it was not the perfection I wanted, and was very time consuming, and such a pain that it was hardly worth the effort at one point in time when there was more of them to do.
If you have someone locally with a lathe setup, and that does good work, I would definatly recomend going that way. Proper Tip and shaft care on a regular basis will serve your game well, with less distractions.
I don't know how many people do this, but when I tip someone's cue, whether or not it happens or I compress the tip before installing, I tell them to assume that it will shroon during the compression cycle, as some new installs do. I tell them to bring it back after they break it in, and I trim the sides, and recrown for free. It's less aggravation for them, only takes a couple of minutes on a lathe, and I would rather do this then have someone sanding on the sides, because that can do damage to the end of ferrule, tapering it down reducing the face diameter of the tip, effecting their game, not to mention create more work for me to keep it somewhat playable when I retip down the road, and eventually can lead to that needing to be replaced also, which is more dollars out of their pocket that could have been avoided.
Even if a good repair guy charges a few bucks to tune the tip up, then IMHO It's money well spent.
It's a win/win for everyone involved, your helping support him so he can continue to better equip himself to serve You and the other players in your area, while at the same time you can focus on what's most important to you, your pool game. Believe me he's not making a killing, what ever he makes is more then likely all going back into It to improve his capabilities, just so he can better serve, and offer more types of repair.
You'll thank Yourself if You find someone locally that does good work, treats you fairly, and will take good care of your arsonal.
Good luck with it & sorry to hear about your tip,
Greg
each time I got it just where I wanted. 
