Tip keeps getting shredded
- Thread starter nataddrho
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That could be it. Cutting them with a sharp tool and slightly damp has worked for me.
pools about consistency right? why not keep the tip as consistent as you can?
I’m not sure that a dull blade would cause this. If you look closely at the right side of the tip you can see that it looks like it was dented from the side. Maybe whatever happened there happened on the other side and caused the damage. I’m at a loss though…
I do, I shape it when needed and scuff it when chalk wont stick well. I'm sure that tip quality changes as the tip wears down, you start with a very tall tip with many layers, scuff it often and soon the tip starts getting very short. Less layers make the tip play like a harder tip. I suppose there are pros and cons on both sides.
The tip is very small and rather flat. It appears to take a lot of force out near the edge. Sooner or later a soft piece of leather will expand and contract until it fatigues. A rounder profile would move the impact spot closer to the center just by being taller than the edge, spreading the brunt of the compression more evenly to the entire surface instead of on one tiny a spot on the edge.
It is small but not flat. The picture is deceiving. Dime radius.
SeniorTom
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To me the tip looks a bit worn out (thin) and flattened. The shape looks like it's has been used as a break cue and never reshaped, and pounded until it split. A flat tip will not absorb the shock as well as a rounded tip, at least it seems that way with me? In all my time playing pool I have never seen a tip do this, and we have some pretty beat up pool hall sticks where I play.
I’ve intentionally forced a couple CF shafts to their compression limits and the tip was never the failure mode (hollow shaft typically cracks first). I think something external tore the tip like maha said.
This actually happened four times, because I forgot that it happened once with my 12.4, and once with OB2+. I did play carom with it when it happened using 2 7/16” balls. 12.4 is in a completely different case.
So… twice with 11.8
Once with 12.4
Once with OB
Many agree tips should never do this even with max English hit hard. The OB used a different installer.
The only common variable is keeping the cues in my car all the time.
So… twice with 11.8
Once with 12.4
Once with OB
Many agree tips should never do this even with max English hit hard. The OB used a different installer.
The only common variable is keeping the cues in my car all the time.
Flakeandrun
Well-known member
Maybe it's the temperature variance. I'm stumped.
and keep the sides burnished. You can use superglue for that too.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
What brand of tip is it? Just curious if it's something that may be old. The leather failed.
Jon Turner
New member
I've had that same damage occur following a miscue when breaking. I swing too hard for sure.
I use the same on a Kamui Athlete H tip and haven't seen anything like your picture, this tip tool takes virtually nothing off the tip, never seen anything like that WOW !!!