All else equal, how does the height of the tip affect how a cue plays, if at all?
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Tip Height
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If you don't mind me asking, with a lathe, whats your method for cutting them down a bit?
Most tips will play satisfactorily if they are trimmed to the proper height. In the seventies I used Elk Masters for 5 or 6 years but trimmed them very short after installing and then changing out about every 2 weeks. Of coarse they were only 3.00 or so a box back then. I've found most of the better players like the tips trimmed very short. Scott Frost wants new Moori's trimmed to no longer than 2 layers and changes them after a very short while.
Trimming tips shorter lets them compress quicker, and not mushroom as much. I've read in the past and has become my standard installation procedure, if the customer doesn't have a preference is to trim tips height to one third of their width. So a 12mm ferrule wood get the tip trimmed to about a 4mm height and so forth. I've done it this way for years and seems to work pretty well.
Dick
Trimming tips shorter lets them compress quicker, and not mushroom as much. I've read in the past and has become my standard installation procedure, if the customer doesn't have a preference is to trim tips height to one third of their width. So a 12mm ferrule wood get the tip trimmed to about a 4mm height and so forth. I've done it this way for years and seems to work pretty well.
Dick
when someone asks me to recommend a tip i usually tell them triangle.which is a tall tip. i personally like it tall.when my tip gets below less than half, i change it. ofcourse i am a cuemaker so that makes it real easy for me.i dont have to take it anywhere and always have them on hand. as for the play of it,i dont notice a difference except if it gets too low. then i feel a difference.
Shorter tip will play more solid. Taller ones feel like sponges to me. The taller tips compress more and move around under hard shots like mentioned above. I've started using dudleys and love them. After about 3 games of breaking and playing they are broken in. I cut them down a little but nowhere near as much as i was with snipers. I was almost cutting them in half because they are so spongy. I didnt have to cut down my kamuii black, it played great, but i was scuffing it every game or every other game. It would just glaze up and miscue, just like the snipers were. Its alot easier on the wallet to keep putting on $1.75 tips than $10-20 tips. Everyone is different. For instance my wife likes her 13mm tip with a nickle shape and a flat spot on top, anything pointier and she freaks out. Mine, i like my 11.75 mm tip as pointy as the willards dime will go. So if your doing it yourself, experiment. Its pretty easy to shape them by hand, just need to use sharp tools.
The elks are very popular here and most serious players replace them very regurly and the new tips are trimmed quite low.Changeing a tip every 2-3 weeks seems to be quite ok.
Most do the tips themselves without a lathe.They have a couple pieces of waterpipe sectioned lengthways and glue different grades of paper inside them.
Most look OK and you would not know it was done without a lathe.
A 9mm diameter tip is trimmed to about 2.5-3 mm high and the sides are only about the thickness of a dime or sometimes thiner.Often they also use a small radius about 7mm or so on the tip.
Neil