tip radius of professionals
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I dunno, but I can say that I can't make a ball with the dime radius. :shrug:
Depends, of course, and I don't think anyone has done a survey, people ask what type of tip, type of shaft, but not how the tip is shaped. I would guess more would have a more rounded tip.
Don't know for a fact but I'll bet it is a penny. :thumbup:
Funny you say that, cause i can't either.
I'm no pro but I like a dime radius
You pretty much answered most of your own question, by depending upon the diameter of the tip.
There's no magic number for them, anymore than there is one for us.
I actually like them a little more curved than a dime. I find that with a flatter tip, I have to work harder to move the ball around the table. By having a more rounded tip, I seems that I can put more spin on the cueball while staying closer to the center. On draw shots, I don't have to hit it as hard.
can you make a ball with a nickel radius????:grin:
While this is far from scientific or conclusive, when I first introduced the Last4Ever tip tool I brought a bunch to a Seminole event with the intention of getting them into the hands of some of the pros I had met over the years.
I gave each of them their choice of either nickel or dime radius and if I remember right there were only 2 or 3 that went with nickel. By far, most preferred dime.
Again, small sample but it was pretty lopsided.
I gave each of them their choice of either nickel or dime radius and if I remember right there were only 2 or 3 that went with nickel. By far, most preferred dime.
Again, small sample but it was pretty lopsided.
For some reason questions like this never get asked in the Snooker section.
Peter Ebdon's tip
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If you look at the close up shots in a snooker match the majority have a mushroom tip, and not even slightly mushroomed...they're always massively bulging out the sides.
And as you go down the leagues in snooker a lot of league players have a tip on that's too big for the ferrule. Not as many "tools" and "gimmicks" in snooker for sorting your tip out. Sandpaper and maybe a file will do. I've never once shaped a tip with a tool specifically designed to give a dime or nickel radius. Sandpaper does the trick just fine
I've tried both (I have both diameters' Willards shapers on a key chain in my case)...for me there's no debate...nickel all day long; a dime can't juice the CB like a nickel. I was told years ago that a nickel bevel was ideal for the curvature of a CB, a dime is too much and loses energy as it swipes/slips past the contact point. A nickel bevel directs more force into the contact point.
I used to shape to a dime then a guy told me less shape = less miscue. I started shaping to a nickle and noticed a big difference. Less action on the CB but I'll take it over a misscue.
Interesting...I, too, noticed less miscues, but I also get more action and control on the CB with a nickel. I guess mileage may vary....:wink:
JC
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He told me when doing a clinic down here that he likes it flat on the tip and then flat again at the edge for better contact on cueing the side of the ball. Instead of a round edge striking the round edge of the cue ball you have a flat edge hitting the rounded edge of the cue ball. Made perfect sense to me. Like so:
Radius?
The "radius" is a straight line from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference (edge) or surface.
What you're referring to is the "arc" of the tip. An arc is a piece of the circumference of a circle or sphere. An arc can change in length but not curvature. Dimes and nickels have the same arc because they are both circles.
"Curve" is something else. It's any line that is not straight. So an arc is a curve, but a curve is not necessarily an arc.
The difference with a cue tip is simply because a nickel is bigger than a dime.
So when you "shape" your tip you don't use radius, you simply make the curved portion part of a nickel, dime, or any other circle (the flatter tip means that it's part of a very large circle). The only way you could use radius as a measurement would be when using the maximum "curve" possible for the arc. Visualize the curved part of the tip viewed from the side being exactly 1/2 of a small circle...the radius would be 1/2 of the diameter of the tip).
Can't wait for the responses on this one!
The "radius" is a straight line from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference (edge) or surface.
What you're referring to is the "arc" of the tip. An arc is a piece of the circumference of a circle or sphere. An arc can change in length but not curvature. Dimes and nickels have the same arc because they are both circles.
"Curve" is something else. It's any line that is not straight. So an arc is a curve, but a curve is not necessarily an arc.
The difference with a cue tip is simply because a nickel is bigger than a dime.
So when you "shape" your tip you don't use radius, you simply make the curved portion part of a nickel, dime, or any other circle (the flatter tip means that it's part of a very large circle). The only way you could use radius as a measurement would be when using the maximum "curve" possible for the arc. Visualize the curved part of the tip viewed from the side being exactly 1/2 of a small circle...the radius would be 1/2 of the diameter of the tip).
Can't wait for the responses on this one!