Talisman Pro Medium Tips - Bad Batch

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Okay, so there seems to be a bad batch of Talisman Pro Medium tips going around: they'd delaminate due to faulty production techniques.

My question is this, within that bad batch of Pro Medium tips, did the faulty tip itself feel harder than a good Pro Medium tip?

I ask this because the TPM tips I purchased from a private party awhile back seem to play with a much much harder feel than a medium tip.

TIA
 
There is a gizmo for testing the hardness of things and it is called a "Type D Durometer".

Anyway a billiard dealer in Gresham, Oregon (Billiards and Bagels) tests all of the tips he sells with a durometer and writes the hardness of the tip on each tip. (Or still did this as of the last time I went to that store several years ago.)

As it turns out, he can take a box of tips and do this and find all sorts of different hardness in the same box of tips.

Also what is called hard for "brand A" might equal what "brand B" calls a medium!

Unfortunately, type D Durometers cost $485.00

Type D Durometer...
http://flexbar.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=20706
 
gee. i had better have the new batch i just got checked.lolol.. But on a serious note, every talisman box of domed mediums i have ever bought are still being used on the cues they were put on. to the best of my knowledge anyway. What is actually happening to them? i have a domed hard tip on my 21oz sneaky pete that i use for 3 cushion billiards.(non heated gold crown) it has been on there for almost 2 years and no problems yet...but i am curious.............mike
 
In response to the original post, what do you use on your tip? I had a moori medium that started out nicely medium, and the only tool I used on it was a metal scuffer/shaper that was fairly dull. It turned hard as a rock in a short time, because when I would scuff/reshape it, the tool I was using didn't really dig into the leather at all, and I've found that the layered tips harden up a whole lot if you don't reshape and scuff them with something that really loosens up the hard surface that normal play creates.

Now I have a talisman pro medium and an ultimate tip tool, and I use the dime-shaped abrasives very lightly before playing, and then roll the tapper/scuffer part over the tip from al directions to texture it, and I find the abrasive keeps the surface from hardening to much, and the tapper makes it hold chalk very well. Just a suggestion from my experience if your talisman medium seems too hard.

-Andrew
 
Ive had two delam

Ive had two delam on me, I wrote Tony and recieved two in the mail in two weeks to replace bad two.....lol....Tony is a stand-up guy and will stand by his products.
 
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When you guys say "domed" does that mean they sell tips that are shaped, along with the flat ones? I just got 2 Talisman med and they are just flat. I hav'nt use one of thier tips in about 5 years. Thanks,

Gerry
 
Yep

You got it, you can order them shapped or not, I prefer the flat ones because I like my tips as thick as possible for longevity purposes and its a 30 min drive to Jerico cue shop to have them put on.
 
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