Looking for someone who can rank the layered tip manufacturers by softness. Meaning if 5 different companies make a super soft tip which was is actually the softest.
Thanks
Kevin
Thanks
Kevin
Who can rank most of the layered tips in order of softness?
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http://billiards.colostate.edu/resources/tip_hardness_chart.pdf
Respectfully, Matt
(I don’t take myself too seriously. I hope you can return the favor.)
Respectfully, Matt
(I don’t take myself too seriously. I hope you can return the favor.)
The problem I found is if you find one that plays like you want, as it wears down, it get harder and harder, causing you to change the tip after a short time.
That's good list but it could use some updating. Lot of new tips have come out since it was done. I agree that almost all soft layered tips firm-up over time. Some a lot more than others.
All of the durometer charts posted so far are using a Shore A durometer, which is pretty much useless. If you want decent results, you need to use a Shore D durometer. That being said, you can have two tips that can have the same durometer value, but one could be soft and one could be medium. The durometer values should be used as a guide/QC tool to get an idea on hardness. You have to do more testing and have a complete understanding of the tips you are testing to fully know their hardness.
here ya go....:thumbup:
https://www.pooldawg.com/article/pooldawg-library/the-ultimate-pool-cue-tip-guide
Are you saying “useless” in terms of perfect accuracy? Or “useless” in that a hard tip could show up in the results as soft and vice versa.
Because my experience has been that these lists are “useful” at least as a ballpark indicator for someone with no clue at all what to expect.
Respectfully, Matt
(I don’t take myself too seriously. I hope you can return the favor.)
Some tips vary quite a bit in hardness. The charts are only good for relative ranking between tips. For instance, an elk master is softer than a medium kamui. Just ignore the hardness values and look to see how they rank from soft to hard because we don't know how those values were obtained. What shore scale did they use? Did they use a test stand or test by hand. How many of each tip were tested? Did they do one test per tip or several and average them?
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