Anyone know anything about Zebra tips? does anyone sell them or do you have to make them yourself?
Zebra tips?
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I don't want to be reading the morning news about some guy caught trying to steal a zebra from the zoo, because he thought they made good tips.
I don't want to be reading the morning news about some guy caught trying to steal a zebra from the zoo, because he thought they made good tips.
Haha, sorry i shouldve specified, I heard they were used from splicing together layers of an Everest tip and a Sniper, hence the Zebra name with the white and dark...
Heres a pic:
That seems really labor intensive.. what's the trick?
The trick is to alternate the different types of leather (boar hide for sniper, pig leather for everest) before it gets glued and vaculam'd.
Heres a video of how Tiger Tips are made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzC5LJ1SSk
Just imagine it being made with alternating Sniper and Everest Layers before they're glued.
Yah I dont understand why they dont do this more often and sell them
I understand they seem to limit your options at 8-ball....
...you get this urge to only shoot stripes..
Actually, I'd be very interested if they marketed them.
I'm already a Sniper fan.
So who knows where to get these?
I am not liking my new Moori Soft, this looks like a interesting product to try.
I am not liking my new Moori Soft, this looks like a interesting product to try.
Honestly, I don't see the point, unless I'm missing something very obvious? Why would you quadruple-deck-stack two different materials in a tip, that alternately get exposed as you wear the tip down? It seems to me that you'd experience a slight difference in hit/grip as each material starts getting exposed where it contacts the cue ball.
Granted, I'm not a layered tip guy (I prefer one-piece tips, and I've no problems with "tip maintenance 101" tasks like shaping, demushrooming, burnishing, et al.). But something tells me this alternate-sandwiching-of-different-tip-materials is more of a marketing ploy than having actual practical worth.
That is, unless, it's purely aesthetics -- i.e. a poor-man's way of imitating the "barber's pole" look of the OB-1 ferrule, but in the tip itself?
(J/K.)I'd be very interested in knowing what benefits could be expected from doing something like this. Thoughts?
-Sean
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this. As the tip wears, a different layer is going to be contacting the cue ball. Wouldn't each layer produce a different feel on the cue ball? I can't see how a tip like this would be consistent.
you make a very good point
but when you think about it, since it only has 2 types of leather, the center layer that contacts the cueball becomes sinusoidal as it wears away, like the more you wear the everest layer away, the more you reveal the next sniper layer then it becomes sniper and as that wears away it reveals everest layer and repeats.
Now when you apply english to the ball, things may be different depending on the number of layers revealed, it could change the elasticity since the contact point on the tip is the domed sides.
hopefully someone got that...
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I think many of us "got that" thus the questioning of concept. 
Why on earth you would want your tip to constantly change properties as it wears and/or gets reshaped is beyond me.
Its not like its changing in direct compensation to wear and compression but changing to one character and then later, changing back.
Another form over function marketting item I guess.
Why on earth you would want your tip to constantly change properties as it wears and/or gets reshaped is beyond me.
Its not like its changing in direct compensation to wear and compression but changing to one character and then later, changing back.
Another form over function marketting item I guess.
That was only an experiment (about 8-9years ago). I sold a cue that had one of these tips on it. These tips are not, and never were available in the marketplace.
Sorry to dissapoint...
When I was with Tiger, we did lots of experimental R & D stuff, but only the best of the best made it into the marketplace.
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