Tip reshaping..?

[Peer]

Five years ago, Deno wrote:
> A good cue tip (Moori, Chandivert, etc.) will conform and become
> the optimum shape for your style of play. Reshaping the tip only
> makes you work harder as a player. If you play with a lot of
> english, your tip will shape itself very round, almost like the
> shape of the ball. If you happen to be a center-ball player, the
> tip will be flatter. If you shape the tip to something other
> than what it shapes itself to, you are working against yourself.


When I first read this, it all made perfectly sense to me. But then, when thinking about it, I've come to the opposite conclusion. For example, if someone who mostly hits center-ball gets the cueball in a position where a lot of english is needed -- then suddenly he would be handicapped by the flat shape of his tip.

Hence, I'm a tip-shaper proponent. Anyone else..?

-- peer

 

[BryanJca]

soft tips

I play with a tiger soft tip (which i LOVE) but the downside is that it does need to be reshaped from time to time so it does not last as long as a harder tip. I do play with alot of english and dont hit alot of center ball but my tip still seem to flatten out over time. I think that is just the nature of soft tips. a few hard hit balls changes the shape some.

 

[TheConArtist]

i rarely reshape my tip, as for applying english and proper chalking it, it pretty much stays the same shape, but i will say that i like to burnish it alot for a fact i do it each time before i play, break out the piece of leather and give it a one time around now its almost perfectly black.

 

[cigardave]

The beauty of laminated tips is how well they maintain their shape. Occasionally I'll re-shape (and rough up the tip) with an Ultimate Tip tool, the nickle diameter hole. Just a couple of turns is all that's necessary

 

[9baller]

I use a moori medium tip and I rarely use a tip tool but recently I have had to use my tip pik because my medium tip has become more like a hard tip and I have miscued more often. I have come to the conclusion that my miscuing is because I am digging into the cueball with an unlevel cue, and the hardened tip is not helping me either.

 

[Billy_Bob]

There are many variables in this game. So why not make "constant" whatever we can?

I feel that always shooting with the same cue; weight, shaft, deflection, tip, tip hardness, type type, tip shape, and chalked well, will go a long way toward helping me be more consistent.

I frequently see someone get a new tip installed and their game goes to pot. (They get a different tip with a different shape than their old tip had.) I don't have this problem because I install the same exact tip and give it the same exact shape as my old tip had.

Or someone gets a new cue (different) and their game goes to pot. A friend recently got a new cue - different weight. He told me it was like learning to shoot all over again. I said; "That's right. I warned you about what would happen if you got a new (different) cue!"

Also Predator says a dime shaped tip will have less deflection. So to me this says playing with different shaped tips - new different shaped tip installed, will mean it will play differently.

 

[TSW]

That doesn't make much sense. The vast majority of players hit more shots on or near the center of the cue ball than with extreme english. Over time, the cue tip will tend to flatten no matter how you play.