tip instalation?

[instroke2]

There is a tip installer here: when I give him my cues, for new tips.

When I get my cue back, the tip is a different hardness, for example.
a Med tip comes out hard, or a soft tip comes out medium or harder.

Most often the tips comes out harder than it should be. He is using a lathe, and shapes them nicely but what can he be doing to make them turn out harder than they should be?

 

[conetip]

He may be polishing or burnishing the profile on the end of the tip.
If this is the case, it will be harder than when it is shaped with a willard scuffer by hand .
Neil

Edit A durometer will show for sure the increase in tip hardness.

 

[instroke2]

He may be polishing or burnishing the profile on the end of the tip.
If this is the case, it will be harder than when it is shaped with a willard scuffer by hand .
Neil

Edit A durometer will show for sure the increase in tip hardness.

thxs for the info, i think you are right as he does burnish the side of the tips allot, his tips never seem to mushroom at all. I would expect this is because the tip got a little harder from the instalation. The tips that have worked well from him, had a little mushrooming after a couple weeks of use.

I will get him not to burnish them as much...
thxs again!

 

[JBCustomCues]

pressing the tips would be my guess

 

[no stroke]

I would guess pressing also, most people complain about mushrooming so he probably presses to eliminate complaints. Make your complaint about hardness to him and he should comply.