What are they doing when they lick

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3RAILKICK

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their finger and wet all around the side of the tip and, then rub it briskly back and forth on the top of the cushion, as the tip is rotated 360 degrees.

And why? Will burnishing the sidewall repair or stop some mushrooming from getting started?

Another one-Sometimes you see a player, after a miscue, lick his finger and lightly wet what? that glazed spot from the miscue? Does the tip absorb the moisture and restore the leather enough to repair with tip tapper, tip pick, shaper-whatever?

I'm guessing that's what they're doing. I don't know for sure.


Anybody do these things? Who taught you.
 
3RAILKICK said:
their finger and wet all around the side of the tip and, then rub it briskly back and forth on the top of the cushion, as the tip is rotated 360 degrees.

And why? Will burnishing the sidewall repair or stop some mushrooming from getting started?

Another one-Sometimes you see a player, after a miscue, lick his finger and lightly wet what? that glazed spot from the miscue? Does the tip absorb the moisture and restore the leather enough to repair with tip tapper, tip pick, shaper-whatever?

I'm guessing that's what they're doing. I don't know for sure.


Anybody do these things? Who taught you.
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Burnishing can help stop/repair a mushroomed tip...but it depends on how bad.....sometimes when you use softer tips some will do this every so often (burnish) since if you keep the shroom at bay the tip will live on another day.

The moisture is just going to help the chalk stick better to the now glazed surface of the tip.
 
That isn't burnishing. Unless there is molesting of the cushion!

I think it is just cleanning the edges of the tip.

People do some weird shit!
 
They may be cleaning the chalk off of the ferrule. It may also be a way to refocus like the tennis players that readjust the strings on their racket when they miss.
 
I do that occasionally to clean the chalk off of my ferrule. I don't like when my cue gets dirty so I clean it often. I don't rub it on the rails I just use a towel I keep in my cue case.
 
3RAILKICK said:
What are they doing when they lick their finger and wet all around the side of the tip and, then rub it briskly back and forth on the top . . .

I'm guessing that's what they're doing. I don't know for sure.


Anybody do these things? Who taught you?
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Quit lookin' at those magazines that your older brother keeps under his bed !
 
Black-Balled said:
That isn't burnishing. Unless there is molesting of the cushion!

I think it is just cleanning the edges of the tip.

People do some weird shit!
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I've seen plenty of them "molest the cushions" like that and what they accomplished most was to piss me off. From a pool room owners perspective, anyway! If your tip needs burnishing, don't take it out on someone else's pool table! Either use a piece of leather, a dollar bill, piece of cardboard or let a cue repairman do it right for you! I just want to smack them every time I see this done! I may just start doing that to relieve some stress they've caused!
 
I've only seen snooker players do this, and only the wetting of the tip. I just keep the sides of my soft Elk Master tips burnished so I don't have to monkey with them during a frame. They do tend to mushroom fairly easily if you don't look after them. I don't ever recall having gotten chalk onto the ferrule and it wouldn't stick to brass anyway (unless it was filthy).
 
yea...I hate to see players do ANYTHING to the table as far as cleaning a ferrule or burnishing or whatever.....after years of cleaning tables and paying for maintenance.....the room owners hate i too!

that, and you ever watch guys unscrew the cue and drill the tip into the carpet to get rid of the chalk before putting the cue away?....WTfriggidyF?

thats a guys business there man!.....use a paper towel :)


rant over.....G.
 
I do it occasionally to burnish a slight mushroom out of my tip (when i'm too lazy to file it off). But I don't rub the tip on the cushion - I rub it on the hard surface of the rail.

pj
chgo
 
It's a nasty habit! I picked it up after I quite smoking, needed something to do w/my hands so I did it often. I saw Bill Hawkins do it playing billiards - he was a nervous guy, too. I still do it, but not as often.

I did not do it to burnish the tip, just to keep it clean. But I have burnished my tip on the table, but only the hard part of a gold crown rail, never on a wood t-rail or cloth.

Dave
 
3RAILKICK said:
... Anybody do these things? Who taught you.
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The final step of installing a tip was always to moisten and burnish with leather or the back of sandpaper. It is said to harden the side of the tip. I've been doing it for about 45 years. I have no idea if it really works, but it makes me feel better.
 
cuesmith said:
I've seen plenty of them "molest the cushions" like that and what they accomplished most was to piss me off. From a pool room owners perspective, anyway! If your tip needs burnishing, don't take it out on someone else's pool table! Either use a piece of leather, a dollar bill, piece of cardboard or let a cue repairman do it right for you! I just want to smack them every time I see this done! I may just start doing that to relieve some stress they've caused!
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Absolutley go home and do that to your own equipment.Ive yelled at a few guys and acctualy threw one out over it.
 
3RAILKICK said:
their finger and wet all around the side of the tip and, then rub it briskly back and forth on the top of the cushion, as the tip is rotated 360 degrees.

And why? Will burnishing the sidewall repair or stop some mushrooming from getting started?

Another one-Sometimes you see a player, after a miscue, lick his finger and lightly wet what? that glazed spot from the miscue? Does the tip absorb the moisture and restore the leather enough to repair with tip tapper, tip pick, shaper-whatever?

I'm guessing that's what they're doing. I don't know for sure.


Anybody do these things? Who taught you.
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Hmmm

I think that first sentence needed re-working-maybe the 360 rotation mention, saved it from further abuse.


Thanks for the responses-especially from room owners-I didn't know that the burnishing might hurt the cloth on the cushion.

Take care
 
Bob Jewett said:
The final step of installing a tip was always to moisten and burnish with leather or the back of sandpaper. It is said to harden the side of the tip. I've been doing it for about 45 years. I have no idea if it really works, but it makes me feel better.
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Try using a scrap of felt/table cloth. Works great. Been using a scrap of 860 simmonis for several years now (same piece, as it wears R E A L L Y well) and I do house cues for Rusty's Billiards in Arlington and Fort Worth, so it's be used thousands of times. Generates as much if not more heat than a piece of leather.

my $.02

BTW.. to the OP. It to burnish the shoulder of the tip.

I can understand room owners not wanting their equipment mistreated. Maybe having a scrap of cloth available for people who wish to burnish their tips this way, might save some stress. Just a suggestion.
 
Do not abuse a pool table like that.. or in any other way. There are other and better ways to clean or burnish the tip and/or the ferrule.

Stop it! It's stupid! That's all that needs to be said about it. :groucho:
 
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