I've been reading some posts lately about milk dud style tips and figured I'd do a little experimenting of my own. Since the craze has taken hold of most of us in a quest to find the magic tip, I thought I'd share my latest science experiment. This started some time ago, about a year in trial and error trying to get it right. I hated buying boxes and boxes of tips to do this with and even worse, turning tips down and taking different shafts down to the pool hall and hitting with them, only to find out most of them were klinkers!
There are some really nice layered tips out there today. Some are pricey, some are not. Since all the old original Morri's are gone, or in very scarce supply, I settled in for the Kamui S as my refence tip. Some may not agree with that. To each their own.
Consistently good are the milk soaked and pressed Elkmasters.
A billion Chinamen can't all be wrong!
You can press them fairly tight to get the desired feel and they're cheap.
Here comes the buffalo!
Water Buffalo hide has the best properties for tip making that I've found and Tweeten's been using it for years. It's just about either being too hard or too soft for most folks.
I wanted a tip that could take repeated break shots without mushrooming, have all the finess, spin and feel of a medium/soft tip, and hold chalk without constant rescuffing. And most important of all, it has to sound sweet when you hit the cueball. WHERE IS THIS MAGIC TIP?
Here's what I've come up with. So simple and it's worked fine on every tip I've tried so far.
Take an ordinary Tweeten black WB tip and decompress it. (they're hard)
HOW HARD IS IT?
Drop the tip in a small cup of 70% isopropyl alcohol for about 10 mins.
This loosens the black paint.
Then take the tip out of the alcohol and use a paper towel or something to rub off the black coating while it's still wet. (use rubber gloves or your fingers will get black)
Then scuff it while it's still wet, top & bottom.
Drop the tip back into the alcohol to soak for about 30 mins.
Take it out of the alcohol and set it on the counter to air dry for about 24 hours. It's done!
Install as normal, shape and dress. Ready for action!
If you use a micrometer to measure the thickness of the tip before and after the experiment you will see that the tip gets thicker, even after it's totally dry. They soak up chalk like a sponge and feel great! A very solid medium/soft hit with a nice clean sound. Excellent action on the cueball!
Is it your magic tip? Like I said, to each their own!
They play totally right for me. I just thought I would share this. Thanks for reading.
There are some really nice layered tips out there today. Some are pricey, some are not. Since all the old original Morri's are gone, or in very scarce supply, I settled in for the Kamui S as my refence tip. Some may not agree with that. To each their own.
Consistently good are the milk soaked and pressed Elkmasters.
A billion Chinamen can't all be wrong!
You can press them fairly tight to get the desired feel and they're cheap.
Here comes the buffalo!
Water Buffalo hide has the best properties for tip making that I've found and Tweeten's been using it for years. It's just about either being too hard or too soft for most folks.
I wanted a tip that could take repeated break shots without mushrooming, have all the finess, spin and feel of a medium/soft tip, and hold chalk without constant rescuffing. And most important of all, it has to sound sweet when you hit the cueball. WHERE IS THIS MAGIC TIP?
Here's what I've come up with. So simple and it's worked fine on every tip I've tried so far.
Take an ordinary Tweeten black WB tip and decompress it. (they're hard)
HOW HARD IS IT?
Drop the tip in a small cup of 70% isopropyl alcohol for about 10 mins.
This loosens the black paint.
Then take the tip out of the alcohol and use a paper towel or something to rub off the black coating while it's still wet. (use rubber gloves or your fingers will get black)
Then scuff it while it's still wet, top & bottom.
Drop the tip back into the alcohol to soak for about 30 mins.
Take it out of the alcohol and set it on the counter to air dry for about 24 hours. It's done!
Install as normal, shape and dress. Ready for action!
If you use a micrometer to measure the thickness of the tip before and after the experiment you will see that the tip gets thicker, even after it's totally dry. They soak up chalk like a sponge and feel great! A very solid medium/soft hit with a nice clean sound. Excellent action on the cueball!
Is it your magic tip? Like I said, to each their own!
They play totally right for me. I just thought I would share this. Thanks for reading.
