I prefer the bottom half.......the first half just seems to be wasted, tips seem to play better well broken in....
What is Your Ideal Cue Tip Height
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I prefer the bottom half.......the first half just seems to be wasted, tips seem to play better well broken in....
Actually no, maybe for the first month but once it's broken in and hardened up a bit it's a fairly consistent tip.
I want the whole tip on there. I'll wear it down by playing with it and then put a new one on. If I cut part of it off, it just means that I have to replace it sooner. Leaving it on too long puts my ferrule at risk which is more work if I have to replace that too.
1/4 of tip, for me.John B.Oh,Don't want any sponging effect.also,I have had the new thick ones blow up or out.
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So, John, that sounds pretty low. I mean, if you have a 14 layer tip for example, which admittedly is pretty tall as tips go, are you're saying you like just 3-4 layers left?!
Lou Figueroa
No Lou,I don't know how many layers are on a tip,I was just meaning about a 1/4 of the tip from when It was new.Let me put it this way..I don't like new tips.I like to get em wore down some.half or less.
I'm like somebody else too, I'll touch the cueball a few times as soon as I have a new tip put on.Ok Lou, half or less.lol I think It has to be more consistent,same as you. John B.
I agree. Soft tips like the Blue Diamond and Elkmasters only compress/mushroom so far; after that, they are a very consistent tip.
I'm an Elkie fan myself. What I like to do after installing a new Elkmaster, is to play some "slam ball" with it for a couple three hours. Practice your power stroke, and really send 'em balls home with a "thwack!" Or, make believe you're John Brumback (hi John!
) and practice your "Kentucky whistler" banks -- try to take the back of the pockets out with a puff of smoke.After a couple three hours of that treatment, the Elkie is really compressed and mushroomed, so, using your superior tip maintenance skills (hint, hint, for those layered tip guys that've forgotten how to maintain a tip), reshape that tip back into shape. After that, the tip's stable and you *might* have to touch it up after a couple months.
I'm not a layered tip fan, but one layered tip I *really* like, are the Tiger Emerald tips. These are a medium-soft tip, green in color, but extremely consistent -- to me, they feel like an Elkie but have all the benefits of a layered tip.
Hope this helps,
-Sean
I agree. Soft tips like the Blue Diamond and Elkmasters only compress/mushroom so far; after that, they are a very consistent tip.
I'm an Elkie fan myself. What I like to do after installing a new Elkmaster, is to play some "slam ball" with it for a couple three hours. Practice your power stroke, and really send 'em balls home with a "thwack!" Or, make believe you're John Brumback (hi John!
After a couple three hours of that treatment, the Elkie is really compressed and mushroomed, so, using your superior tip maintenance skills (hint, hint, for those layered tip guys that've forgotten how to maintain a tip), reshape that tip back into shape. After that, the tip's stable and you *might* have to touch it up after a couple months.
I'm not a layered tip fan, but one layered tip I *really* like, are the Tiger Emerald tips. These are a medium-soft tip, green in color, but extremely consistent -- to me, they feel like an Elkie but have all the benefits of a layered tip.
Hope this helps,
-Sean
Haha,That's what I'
ve been doing to this new tip I have on one of my shafts for about a month now.I've beat the hell out of It and can't make It mushroom enough
so I can trim It down.Elkmaster? hahaha.Whatever bud.Better get you a good moorie! Just messin with ya bud.John B.Moorie slow for me
Also mine. You need to feel the cue ball in your grip for as long as possible.
John
Ok, that's what I thought. I usually have mine cut down a third. I actually have a card somewhere where Guido wrote down the height I liked for future reference.
Lou Figueroa
Lou, I put one Kamui SS cut in half put on two shafts, so I like them short. Does anyone else do this? It is not that i am tight with my money, just like the shorter tip and my installer said lets cut it in half and put the other half on your second shaft. I said ok lets try it. What do you guys think about that?
Tim:
I don't think that would be a problem, as long as the tip is cleaved straight through one of its layers (perhaps even forcibly delaminating it right along the glue line), and not slanted through it. If the cut is not perfectly perpendicular to the sides of the tip, you'll end up with a "leaning tower of Pisa" (i.e. the tip appears to be leaning to one side, even if it feels perfectly smooth with your finger, especially noticeable as you rotate the cue in your hand) and no amount of shaping would get rid of that appearance. I don't know about you, but that would bug me. I'd end up taking a Sharpie marker and blackening the sides of the tip so that I'd not see the layers. (And yep, even though I'm decidedly not a layered tip fan today, I did go through my experimentation phase long ago with layered tips to try them out, and have seen where an improperly cleaved layered tip has that "leaning" appearance.)
I hope that's helpful,
-Sean
There's your problem right there Lou. You're lettin' some guy from the late 70's Saturday Night Live show install your tips
!!!Maniac
I've been doing this ever since I started using Kamui Black tips about a year ago. They play perfect right when you get them so replacing them often means nothing as far as getting used to a new one. I usually use a Kamui Black Medium or Soft as the SS wear too quickly for me.
Good trick -- I can never get mine cut perfectly in half though. We need Joe Porper to come up with (drum roll, please): The Porper Cue Tip Slicer.
Sorta like a bagel slicer, but smaller
Lou Figueroa
There's your problem right there Lou. You're lettin' some guy from the late 70's Saturday Night Live show install your tips
Maniac
lol. http://confucius.tk/?p=1510
Lou Figueroa
I don't know, but I get around a year from half a Kamui SS and play quite a bit.
Lou Figueroa
Good trick -- I can never get mine cut perfectly in half though. We need Joe Porper to come up with (drum roll, please): The Porper Cue Tip Slicer.
Sorta like a bagel slicer, but smaller
Lou Figueroa
Knowing the designer of the Joe Porper products, he'd invent a miniature pipe cutter with rollers and a blade-wheel, that you put the tip in and turn a little crank to rotate it and cleave it perfectly.
-Sean