Re-tipping your opinion please

[denja]

Looking alot better 2nd time around, Good job

Now I must polish ferrule, Fitting a tip is a fiddly job for someone who is crap at D.I.Y. THANKS for your kind input.

[MattCash]

Nice lookin tip m8. You can polish those scratches out of the ferrule with some 800+ grit wet & dry and work your way up through higher grits to get it gleaming.

[denja]

Nice lookin tip m8. You can polish those scratches out of the ferrule with some 800+ grit wet & dry and work your way up through higher grits to get it gleaming.

THANKS ! For your input very grateful I am not that great at D,I,Y, but want to get it as perfect as possible.

[denja]

You have maybe taken a bit much off the tip depth and I would normally not taper the sides as much either.
Not too bad though.

I usually like to do mine like this.



http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board...7&d=1329518904

Have done re-tip with more depth as per your photo (Have posted photo of my 2nd effort on this thread Thanks for your input.

[belld]

Hey mate that looks spot on. I've been doing my own tips
for 20 yrs now and that is how i have mine with a nice depth
and a very slight dome. You can do mine now if your offering?
well done mighty fine job.

[denja]

Hey mate that looks spot on. I've been doing my own tips
for 20 yrs now and that is how i have mine with a nice depth
and a very slight dome. You can do mine now if your offering?
well done mighty fine job.

Thanks for your kind remarks my head has got bigger by the minute, Question what is the ultimate perfect shape ? If you have been playing for 20 years maybe you could tell me what was the thinking behind the old style flowerpot tip and how did you shape it ?, I looked at a video of John Parris fitting a tip and the result was a very domed almost ball like tip with very little side wall.

[gem]

Have done re-tip with more depth as per your photo (Have posted photo of my 2nd effort on this thread Thanks for your input.

Really nice job on this tip. You will get a lot more usage out of this one.
Most people keep their tip with around this amount of dome. You may need to do the occasional re-shape depending on where you regularly strike the cue ball.

Well done though.

[denja]

Really nice job on this tip. You will get a lot more usage out of this one.
Most people keep their tip with around this amount of dome. You may need to do the occasional re-shape depending on where you regularly strike the cue ball.
Well done though.

THANKS ! For your kind input I watched a video of John Parris doing a re-tip (His assistant) it ended up with a very pronounce dome almost ball shape with very little side wall contrary to this most tips Mike Wooldridge e.c.t. go for a less severe dome with a good side wall very confusing !

[perpetualboredom]

THANKS ! For your kind input I watched a video of John Parris doing a re-tip (His assistant) it ended up with a very pronounce dome almost ball shape with very little side wall contrary to this most tips Mike Wooldridge e.c.t. go for a less severe dome with a good side wall very confusing !

It's just personal choice. A friend of mine had his top re-done at the Blue Dolphin pool tournement a year or two back because he kept mis-cusing (may be wrong but I believe it was Stu Green from Greenbaize), he diagnosed an over-domed tip and put one on with a much flatter profile. Mate went on to win the 3 man so it must have worked for him!

[belld]

I had lessons a couple of years back with an ex pro in Leeds and
i too kept on mis-cueing on screw shots. He picked up on my tip
which had a very severe dome to it just like the shot in the Parris
video. I beleived it would give me more reaction on the white ball
but when the pro flattened the tip out and reshaped it i still got
the same reaction on the white ball. I very rarely mis-cue now and
have much more confidence in my flatter tip shape. It really does
boil down to personnel taste on tip shape but a lot depends on how
good your technique is also. One more point i found that i put a lot
more unintentional side on the cue ball with the very domed tip but
when i had the tip flattened out and was less domed i struck the cue ball
with less throw.

[denja]

not keen on the tapered ferrule but tip looks ok.

Is a tapered ferrule out of the ordinary ? to be honest I had not even thought about it until your comment

[hotpot]

I had lessons a couple of years back with an ex pro in Leeds and
i too kept on mis-cueing on screw shots. He picked up on my tip
which had a very severe dome to it just like the shot in the Parris
video. I beleived it would give me more reaction on the white ball
but when the pro flattened the tip out and reshaped it i still got
the same reaction on the white ball. I very rarely mis-cue now and
have much more confidence in my flatter tip shape. It really does
boil down to personnel taste on tip shape but a lot depends on how
good your technique is also. One more point i found that i put a lot
more unintentional side on the cue ball with the very domed tip but
when i had the tip flattened out and was less domed i struck the cue ball
with less throw.

I also thnk that a too round tip causes a lot of problems with the white sliding off it , even if its ever so slightly it still slides . A flattish tip gives a much cleaner crisp strike . The dome thats on a new tip is perfect and i keep that shape but just rough it up ever so slightly . If the tip is too high i like to slice a layer off the bottom rather than taking it off the top .

[ADR147]

Is a tapered ferrule out of the ordinary ? to be honest I had not even thought about it until your comment

yes it's not common. sometimes over time they can end up that way.

[denja]

yes it's not common. sometimes over time they can end up that way.

Sorry to be a thicko WHY ?

[ADR147]

because as people burnish or shape the tip they accidentally do a little to the ferrule.