Why do my tips always glaze?

TheThaiger

TheThaiger

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Hardly anyone else's do, apparently. I've no end of tip tools, and am constantly hacking them at the tip, in the hope THIS one will put an end to my inevitable miscues. None of my friends even have sandpaper, and their tips never glaze. So, why do my tips glaze?

Secondly, why do they always seem to glaze in the same place? Scuff, glaze, miscue, scuff, glaze, miscue - always on the same spot. Why?

Layered, non layered, expensive, cheap - no difference, same glazing.
 
are you breaking with it ? i noticed that my sniper tends to do that after a few breaks and i dont slam the rack either just a medium stroke and its glazed like crazy.
 
stouter2386 said:
are you breaking with it ? i noticed that my sniper tends to do that after a few breaks and i dont slam the rack either just a medium stroke and its glazed like crazy.
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No, but I do hit em hard. But I have friends who break with them, and are harder hitters, yet they never seem to suffer.
 
TheThaiger said:
Hardly anyone else's do, apparently. I've no end of tip tools, and am constantly hacking them at the tip, in the hope THIS one will put an end to my inevitable miscues. None of my friends even have sandpaper, and their tips never glaze. So, why do my tips glaze?

Secondly, why do they always seem to glaze in the same place? Scuff, glaze, miscue, scuff, glaze, miscue - always on the same spot. Why?

Layered, non layered, expensive, cheap - no difference, same glazing.
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Happens to me too. I just started using the Kamui Gator Grip, and that typically lasts me an entire match, more than I can say for the tip pik. But again, I need to re-scuff for every match. Fortunately the gator grip doesn't really wear down the tip.
 
stouter2386 said:
are you breaking with it ? i noticed that my sniper tends to do that after a few breaks and i dont slam the rack either just a medium stroke and its glazed like crazy.
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I agree with this. I used to be a big proponent of "break with your player -- a good cue is designed to easily take the hard hit of a break." But afterwards, I noticed the tip glazing, and no matter how proficient I was with a tip tool or sandpaper, it kept repeating like a bad meal.

This was years ago. Got a dedicated breaker, and problem was solved. No more glazing.

-Sean
 
Hitting the balls hard and moisture are the 2 main reasons a tip glazes. What type of tip are you using? (as in soft, med, hard)
 
Cdryden said:
Hitting the balls hard and moisture are the 2 main reasons a tip glazes. What type of tip are you using? (as in soft, med, hard)
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It really doesn't matter, although I favour med to hard. I've spent a fortune on tips in the last year or two - mooris (med&quick), Tiger Everest (worse ever for glazing), a load of Triangles (inc pressed & soaked), some crap ebay layered tips (california, I think), and several others. My tip of choice (on my Pred) is Kamui Black medium, but am currently using a kamui tan soft, which has just to glaze after a few weeks play.
 
England is wet and damp. Move and your tips will be ok.

See, there is an easy solution to every problem.
I should be employed by one of those think tank places.
 
I break with my playing cue and I hardly ever mess with my tips. I use a simple sandpaper tool to scuff them up when they start to glaze and I only have to do that every month or so. The tips on my Tucker that was made in 2003 are still the original tips that Murray put on it. The only time that I miscue is when I hurry a shot or pump my shoulder for no reason.
 
TheThaiger said:
It really doesn't matter, although I favour med to hard. I've spent a fortune on tips in the last year or two - mooris (med&quick), Tiger Everest (worse ever for glazing), a load of Triangles (inc pressed & soaked), some crap ebay layered tips (california, I think), and several others. My tip of choice (on my Pred) is Kamui Black medium, but am currently using a kamui tan soft, which has just to glaze after a few weeks play.
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Just a thought what type case do you use, and do you put the shafts in tips up or down?
 
stop scuffing them..

My last tip was a pressed triangle that I scuffed pretty much daily I got lots of glazing.. last May I had a new pressed triangle put on the same cue..I use it everyday.. it has touched noting but master chalk and cue balls.. it still looks like new and holds chalk wonderfully..

throw your scuffer away
 
softshot said:
stop scuffing them..

My last tip was a pressed triangle that I scuffed pretty much daily I got lots of glazing.. last May I had a new pressed triangle put on the same cue..I use it everyday.. it has touched noting but master chalk and cue balls.. it still looks like new and holds chalk wonderfully..

throw your scuffer away
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Yeah, I'd come to that conclusion, and hadn't fiddled with my latest at all - but it's still glazed. :frown:
 
I have that same problem every once in a while. Just out of curiosity, do you clean the chalk off your tip after each use?
 
If you take a CTE class, you can avoid the squirt when they glaze over. Just saying...
 
Stop keeping your cue in the glazed donut box...problem solved! :D Otherwise, get yourself a better quality stroke. As softshot said, I also NEVER touch my tips with anything other than chalk, and rarely miscue (miscues are 99% the result of a poor stroke).

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

TheThaiger said:
Hardly anyone else's do, apparently. I've no end of tip tools, and am constantly hacking them at the tip, in the hope THIS one will put an end to my inevitable miscues. None of my friends even have sandpaper, and their tips never glaze. So, why do my tips glaze?

Secondly, why do they always seem to glaze in the same place? Scuff, glaze, miscue, scuff, glaze, miscue - always on the same spot. Why?

Layered, non layered, expensive, cheap - no difference, same glazing.
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Chalk maybe?

What kind of chalk do you use? Anything different than your pool pals? Recently I tried some cheap Chinese chalk. It was $8.00 for half a gross on eBay. I figured if I didn't like it, I could always just give it to friends or to the local bar. Well this stuff was so bad that it would be MISSING from my tip after two or three shots AND it would glaze my tip. I didn't know chalk could be this bad. I threw it all in the trash. Point is, at least extrapolating from this experience anyway, I figure different chalks may at least contribute somewhat to glazing.

Fatz
 
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