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I have about 10-15 new Aurora laminated snooker tip that I would like to offer to members on this forum as samples. The only thing I ask for is to please post your honest feedback here for others to read.
Please email me your address at auroracues at aol dot com, no PM please. The samples will be posted on a first come first served basis.
A lot of you might know that I build snooker cues. I have never been 100% happy with the laminated tips on the market. So, I set out to work with a company in Japan to make me a special laminated tip specially designed for the game of snooker. It has been 5 months and I am happy to say that I am very pleased with the final product. I would like to offer some samples and hear your feedback. Thank you.
As you all know, most US pool tips are made to last forever, so they are usually very hard.
Some of these companies are now producing the snooker version of their pool tips but the process and leather used are pretty much the same.
A lot of laminated tips do not hold chalk that well, and tend to harden over time, making them very durable but lacks the feel and touch for the game of snooker.
Aurora laminated tip is designed with playability as its #1 priority.
It features 5 evenly pressed layers and is designed to be used to its full height. There is no need to cut off and waste lots of leather layers for nothing.
It features a special treated pigskin leather which is more flexible than the usual pigskin found on other US pool cue tips.
The leather on Aurora snooker tips holds chalk very well and offers more "spring" upon impact. Shown below is a 3 months old Aurora snooker tip. I have never shaped or filed it.
Aurora snooker tip is designed to maximize leather contact area between the tip and the cue ball. If you look at the top of your laminated tip, you will notice that a lot of laminated tips have many glue lines on the chalk surface. These glue lines do not hold chalk well, and do not hit like leather. I decided to design a tip with as little glue line on the contact surface as possible--when installed to its full height, Aurora laminated tip only has one glue line on the surface, so you get a contact surface pretty much consists of leather only. A leather-only surface offers a more true "feel", better control, and grips the cue ball better.
Aurora laminated tip is designed to play a bit softer over time. When installed with its full height of 5 layers, there should be 3 layers on the rim, and 2 layers on the doom. If you like a firmer hit, you can shape off 1 layer leaving 2 layers on the rim, and 2 layers on the doom. To make it even harder, you can take off yet another layer so you will get a "hard hit" with only 1 layer on the rim.
When sharping the tip, please use 400 or higher sand paper or a fine file. The leather used on this tip is more porous and elastic so very coarse sand paper will fray the leather causing a lot of "hair" on the top. The fibres of this leather have been treated specially to be more elastic. Therefore, please use fine sand paper and only file downward when you sand it to keep the fibres of the tip intact.
*Plesse use very sharp new blade to cut the tip.
For more info and pictures, you may also visit my facebook page. Please click here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...9&l=17b6381936
Thank you.
I have about 10-15 new Aurora laminated snooker tip that I would like to offer to members on this forum as samples. The only thing I ask for is to please post your honest feedback here for others to read.
Please email me your address at auroracues at aol dot com, no PM please. The samples will be posted on a first come first served basis.
A lot of you might know that I build snooker cues. I have never been 100% happy with the laminated tips on the market. So, I set out to work with a company in Japan to make me a special laminated tip specially designed for the game of snooker. It has been 5 months and I am happy to say that I am very pleased with the final product. I would like to offer some samples and hear your feedback. Thank you.
As you all know, most US pool tips are made to last forever, so they are usually very hard.
Some of these companies are now producing the snooker version of their pool tips but the process and leather used are pretty much the same.
A lot of laminated tips do not hold chalk that well, and tend to harden over time, making them very durable but lacks the feel and touch for the game of snooker.
Aurora laminated tip is designed with playability as its #1 priority.
It features 5 evenly pressed layers and is designed to be used to its full height. There is no need to cut off and waste lots of leather layers for nothing.
It features a special treated pigskin leather which is more flexible than the usual pigskin found on other US pool cue tips.
The leather on Aurora snooker tips holds chalk very well and offers more "spring" upon impact. Shown below is a 3 months old Aurora snooker tip. I have never shaped or filed it.
Aurora snooker tip is designed to maximize leather contact area between the tip and the cue ball. If you look at the top of your laminated tip, you will notice that a lot of laminated tips have many glue lines on the chalk surface. These glue lines do not hold chalk well, and do not hit like leather. I decided to design a tip with as little glue line on the contact surface as possible--when installed to its full height, Aurora laminated tip only has one glue line on the surface, so you get a contact surface pretty much consists of leather only. A leather-only surface offers a more true "feel", better control, and grips the cue ball better.
Aurora laminated tip is designed to play a bit softer over time. When installed with its full height of 5 layers, there should be 3 layers on the rim, and 2 layers on the doom. If you like a firmer hit, you can shape off 1 layer leaving 2 layers on the rim, and 2 layers on the doom. To make it even harder, you can take off yet another layer so you will get a "hard hit" with only 1 layer on the rim.
When sharping the tip, please use 400 or higher sand paper or a fine file. The leather used on this tip is more porous and elastic so very coarse sand paper will fray the leather causing a lot of "hair" on the top. The fibres of this leather have been treated specially to be more elastic. Therefore, please use fine sand paper and only file downward when you sand it to keep the fibres of the tip intact.
*Plesse use very sharp new blade to cut the tip.
For more info and pictures, you may also visit my facebook page. Please click here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...9&l=17b6381936
Thank you.
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