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I've gotten really hard triangles in the past and thought that maybe I over burnished them and screwed them up. I'd rip em off and try another.

After this exercise, seeing the variety of tips you get in a box, I'm thinking that "a good triangle" means different things to different people.
 
dendweller said:
I've gotten really hard triangles in the past and thought that maybe I over burnished them and screwed them up. I'd rip em off and try another.

After this exercise, seeing the variety of tips you get in a box, I'm thinking that "a good triangle" means different things to different people.
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You are totally right, and this is the way with most of the material discussions. It's all about feelings and impressions. The tip hardness tests are the closest thing to a real scientific approach, but even there it's questionable if the results for one type of tip are applicable to ALL of the tips of that type. Even Dr Dave's chalk test, which looks terrific, has the flaw of shots being conducted by a human, and you never know if you're not putting something into the shot, unconsciously. Blind comparison tests would be the thing, but who has time and money for that. Throwing leather tips into a bowl of water to see how they react also strongly reminds me of witch hunts and alchemy :D
 
klikr said:
Throwing leather tips into a bowl of water to see how they react also strongly reminds me of witch hunts and alchemy
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I think there's something to it. Rocks, which are dense sink, cardboard does not. Far as weight, rocks weigh more then cardboard.

And the triangle tips that weigh the most, are definitely rocks in my opinion.
 
klikr said:
Throwing leather tips into a bowl of water to see how they react also strongly reminds me of witch hunts and alchemy :D
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Yes, I have visions of Torquemada and the Inquisition every time I hear of people dunking a bunch of tips. Maybe we need to take all Triangles, Lepros and Elkmasters that fail the trials and burn them as well.
 
klikr said:
You are totally right, and this is the way with most of the material discussions. It's all about feelings and impressions. The tip hardness tests are the closest thing to a real scientific approach, but even there it's questionable if the results for one type of tip are applicable to ALL of the tips of that type. Even Dr Dave's chalk test, which looks terrific, has the flaw of shots being conducted by a human, and you never know if you're not putting something into the shot, unconsciously. Blind comparison tests would be the thing, but who has time and money for that. Throwing leather tips into a bowl of water to see how they react also strongly reminds me of witch hunts and alchemy :D
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Das Cue-Boot said:
Yes, I have visions of Torquemada and the Inquisition every time I hear of people dunking a bunch of tips. Maybe we need to take all Triangles, Lepros and Elkmasters that fail the trials and burn them as well.
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hilarious, let's meet and do this :)
 
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