supergreenman said:Jude, you said it yourself.... very fine and good sandpaper. This is true, it is also true the Colorado river many thousands of years to carve out the Grand Canyon, the point I was trying to make was the compaction of the CB hitting your tip and the use of commercial scuffers and tip tappers have more to do with the shape of a tip than chalk.
Respectfully yours,
SGM
Oh and I gotta say, I haven't used a single tip tool on my current tip since I got it and it's been months now. It's pretty much a dime radius.
Of course those tools will take leather off very quickly but when you go back to playing and chalking your cue, it's eventually going to conform to the chalk.
I mean, if chalk didn't do this and everybody could design their own curvatures, don't you think it would be commonplace for people to miss spots while chalking, then? They typicall don't because chalk & tip quickly take on a similar radius. Yes, the chalk DEFINITELY gives here but the tip gives, too.