Upside Down Tip
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My QUESTION is what are you doing wrong when installing a Morri that causes it to delaminate. I personallly have put on a a few thousand Morri's over the last 10 years and had one delaminate. I believe that one one was also my fault I may have let it get a little hot on the lathe!!!
no-sho
The one's that delaminated were put on by, IMO, the best cue mechanic out there: Guido Orlandi. And, I watched him put on every single tip -- he does immaculate work. Regardless, over the course of two or three years I had about four tips either delaminate, or literally, lose chunks out of an underlying layer (usually right before a big tournament
Lou Figueroa
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All of this reeks of superstition to me
Do we even know exactly how each tip is made? Maybe they all come out in one long 'tip sausage' and then that's chopped up into several individual tips, therefore every layer of every tip is pretty much identical.
Do you also reach for the milk in the back of the grocery store cooler?
Do we even know exactly how each tip is made? Maybe they all come out in one long 'tip sausage' and then that's chopped up into several individual tips, therefore every layer of every tip is pretty much identical.
Do you also reach for the milk in the back of the grocery store cooler?
I like playing with a 1/2 tip.
I glue them onto the ferrule and razor it in 1/2.
I use the other 1/2 when it is worn down to almost the ferrule.
I like the lower tips to the fuller height.
But I use an 11 mm tip so a 13 mm blank has more than enough height.
Neil
I glue them onto the ferrule and razor it in 1/2.
I use the other 1/2 when it is worn down to almost the ferrule.
I like the lower tips to the fuller height.
But I use an 11 mm tip so a 13 mm blank has more than enough height.
Neil
I thought they were glued like sheets of paper stacked. Then stamped out like homemade biscuits... 
BTW I like wizards the best, with about 1/4 of the tip taken off.
Shane
BTW I like wizards the best, with about 1/4 of the tip taken off.
Shane
All of this reeks of superstition to me
Do we even know exactly how each tip is made? Maybe they all come out in one long 'tip sausage' and then that's chopped up into several individual tips, therefore every layer of every tip is pretty much identical.
Do you also reach for the milk in the back of the grocery store cooler?
So what is it in a tip that you're calling "magic"? In what way do you suspect the layers might differ?
-Andrew
(for the record, I suspect that the layers don't differ at all, except for small random variations)
-Andrew
(for the record, I suspect that the layers don't differ at all, except for small random variations)
You misunderstood and did it wrong. But even done correctly it didn't work out for me. I couldn't use a closed bridge with the tip glued to the butt cap, and the extreme forward balance was not to my liking.
All of this reeks of superstition to me
Do we even know exactly how each tip is made? Maybe they all come out in one long 'tip sausage' and then that's chopped up into several individual tips, therefore every layer of every tip is pretty much identical.
The only way that makes sense is to laminate several wide thin sheets of leather together (like making leather plywood) and then cut 'em out like cookies out of dough.
What I wanna know is where do they get all the thin-skinned cows? Is there a bovine internet?
Doesn't everybody?
pj
chgo
Uh oh. Now you'll always be on the wrong side of the cue ball and all your spin will be backwards!
pj
chgo
pj
chgo
I've been taking a bit of instruction on tip tuning from my friend John Harmon. He starts with a sniper [kinda tall] and by the time he's cutting and packing it down its about 1/2 gone. You can listen to it "tuning" through the shaft. The tighter it gets the higher pitch. He's not happy till it sounds right. I just put a new medium Moori on a couple days ago and I can hear it [my shaft] talking to me as I tune it. Kinda cool. Once its packed down it should last a year.Ya learn something new eve:groucho:ryday!
The one's that delaminated were put on by, IMO, the best cue mechanic out there: Guido Orlandi. And, I watched him put on every single tip -- he does immaculate work. Regardless, over the course of two or three years I had about four tips either delaminate, or literally, lose chunks out of an underlying layer (usually right before a big tournament
Lou Figueroa
While I respect your opinion, Lou, I must also respectfully disagree as Guido being the best 'cue mechanic' out there.:sorry:
I had him install 2 Moori medium's for me on 2 different shafts a few years ago at DCC. He sold me his little kit for cleaning the shaft and so on and so forth. I retained alot from our conversation as well.
But whats more is both, yes both, tips came off less than a week later. :angry: I even kept the tips and thought about having him redo them since it cost me $75 for the 2 tips and the kit. I got alot of use from the kit but almost none from the tip.
I like Guido but he will never do any work to my cues again.
I hope the magic thing works out for you though...isn't that what we are all searching for???:wink:
Gary
All of this reeks of superstition to me
Do we even know exactly how each tip is made? Maybe they all come out in one long 'tip sausage' and then that's chopped up into several individual tips, therefore every layer of every tip is pretty much identical.
Do you also reach for the milk in the back of the grocery store cooler?
Superstition amongst pool players?
And you have a problem with that?!
Lou Figueroa
While I respect your opinion, Lou, I must also respectfully disagree as Guido being the best 'cue mechanic' out there.:sorry:
I had him install 2 Moori medium's for me on 2 different shafts a few years ago at DCC. He sold me his little kit for cleaning the shaft and so on and so forth. I retained alot from our conversation as well.
But whats more is both, yes both, tips came off less than a week later. :angry: I even kept the tips and thought about having him redo them since it cost me $75 for the 2 tips and the kit. I got alot of use from the kit but almost none from the tip.
I like Guido but he will never do any work to my cues again.
I hope the magic thing works out for you though...isn't that what we are all searching for???:wink:
Gary
Gary, while I respect your opinion, everyone has a different experience with ever other person. I, personally, over the years, have had a bad cue tip experience with Guido.
BUT, over those same years, I have had cue work done all across the country and IMO, Guido is still the best. He still rocks (overall
Lou Figueroa