Tips being installed angled inward slightly on the outside diameter

Garo 7

Garo 7

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In other words, the sides of the tip I just had installed by a local guy are not exactly straight, angled slightly inwards. This bothers me... should the outside diameter not be perfectly straight like the ferrule? The angle is very slight, but if I use plastic ruler and hold it against the ferrule. It is definitely there. So in other words, the top of the tip is ever so slightly smaller than the bottom where it is attached to the cue. Sides are angled inwards from bottom to top, just tiny bit.

Should I be bothered by this, generally and with respect to the affect on my cuing?
 
It's perfect. The sides will be compressed from ball hits and will become parallel with the shaft. Non layered tips need more of an angled cut than layered tips.
 
Garo 7 said:
In other words, the sides of the tip I just had installed by a local guy are not exactly straight, angled slightly inwards. This bothers me... should the outside diameter not be perfectly straight like the ferrule? The angle is very slight, but if I use plastic ruler and hold it against the ferrule. It is definitely there. So in other words, the top of the tip is ever so slightly smaller than the bottom where it is attached to the cue. Sides are angled inwards from bottom to top, just tiny bit.

Should I be bothered by this, generally and with respect to the affect on my cuing?
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dont let such small things bother you
 
Garo 7 said:
In other words, the sides of the tip I just had installed by a local guy are not exactly straight, angled slightly inwards. This bothers me... should the outside diameter not be perfectly straight like the ferrule? The angle is very slight, but if I use plastic ruler and hold it against the ferrule. It is definitely there. So in other words, the top of the tip is ever so slightly smaller than the bottom where it is attached to the cue. Sides are angled inwards from bottom to top, just tiny bit.

Should I be bothered by this, generally and with respect to the affect on my cuing?
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Play it. You'll be fine. Some tip installers do this to help alleviate the mushroom effect.
Just don't grind a chalk ring into the ferrule when you chalk the tip. 🤪
 
When you repetitively smash a 19 oz. cue into a 6 oz. cue ball, all but the hardest leather will compress. The bottom of the tip is bonded to the ferrule so that's not moving. As it compresses the leather will widen at the top (mushroom). Your installer anticipated this and preemptively put a slight taper on the tip. He sounds like a guy you want to trust with your cues.
 
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