Billiards: The Cue : Pool Cue Tip Shoulder

[darksinthe]

"whats going to happen, is its going to miscue." yeah. maybe more often than it would, but not 100% like he stated it. Also there are ways to fix the mushroom without sanding it (just sanding would lower the integrity of the already damaged tip.)

Try spitting on a piece of small rectangle of ripped cardboard (like from a 6+ ct. beer case). now wrap this around the tip, hold it tight around the edges and go to town spinning the cue stick while holding tight until it becomes very hot. Tada fixed.

[giordyelduro]

so a good tip is the one that is curved.. so you can hit the cue ball with the center of the tip?... but the layer tip is flat isn it?, many people glue a dime tip or else into the layer tip..

[sixcues]

Nice Tip (Pun Intended), however these days most players that have their own Cue have a Layered tip put on the shaft. Layered tips are a little more expensive but they will not 'Mushroom'. It's just the House Cues that you have to keep an eye on the tip and watch for the 'Mushrooming'.

[Wetstriker]

@sixcues layered tips will still mushroom. Their are some high end ones that claim not to mushroom. The only advantage to a layered tip is that high quality leather is used for each layer, giving you a consistent grade of leather throughout. Solid tips may have flaws or inconsistencies inside the hide, not visible from the outside of the tip. This could be from scaring, cuts, and other environmental influences on the cow/pig/buffalo, etc over the course of its life.

[Wetstriker]

@sixcues Those high quality layered ones (Kamui Black, Sniper) still mushroom a little, but not nearly to the point of other tips. Some layered ones like Karomi, Hercules, Moori, wizard, and Molavia still mushroom nearly as much as solid tips like Le Pro. Hardness makes a big difference also, as softer ones natrually loose their shape faster and mushroom like crazy.

[sixcues]

@Wetstriker OK let me revise my comment for you. Even a solid block of steel will deform if you hit it hard enough and often enough, nothing is indestructible! I have been using layered tips on all of my shafts since the late 90's and I have yet to have had to replace one of them or had any of them 'Mushroom', The brands are - Adams-Black Diamond, Moori, Everest, all of them are a medium hardness. I play almost every day, so the tips are getting plenty of use.

[sixcues]

@Wetstriker OK let me revise my comment for you. Even a solid block of steel will deform if you hit it hard enough and often enough, nothing is indestructible! I have been using layered tips on all of my shafts since the late 90's and I have yet to have had to replace one of them or had any of them 'Mushroom', The brands are - Adams-Black Diamond, Moori, Everest, all of them are a medium hardness. I play almost every day, so the tips are getting plenty of use.

[sixcues]

@Wetstriker If you have a layered tip tip that is Mushrooming then one or a combination of things are going on. 1st - you are hitting way too hard too often, 2nd - the tip is of poor quality, even the name brands can be of cheap quality, 3rd - the tip is too soft, try a little harder tip, as I said all of mine are of a Medium Hardness. If you need such a soft tip to generate spin then you need to work on your stroke, I have no problem putting spin on the Cue Ball, sometimes I even get too much

[sixcues]

@Wetstriker When layered tips first came on the market, one of their selling points was that they would not Mushroom like a regular tip such as Le Pro. As I had my shafts tips replaced in the late 90's when layered tips first came out, it could be that the companies were just making a better product back then, but knock on wood, I have yet to see any of my tips Mushroom or have to be replaced.

[bu6bo4]

ty for your excelent picture