Retipping Cost

[jrc750]

lmao - very funny indeed - i can do this from start to finish in under a minute without the lathe!

Yeah but do you paint your tips lol

[ADR147]

I think £5 is a bit steep to be fair. I charge £3 a tip, but then I'm not doing it as a business so I guess if I charged more people would think I'm ripping them off and I wouldn't like that. realistically a box of tips is about £18 so roughly 40p a tip. Bottle of superglue is about £3-£4 and sandpaper another couple of quid. So basically £25 for 50 tips, glue and sandpaper, basically everything you need to put on a tip. 50 x £3 is still £150, not a bad profit from £25 outlay, those charging a £5 really are taking the preverbial.

not if it's your job. you pay a person for their time and their skill.

[ADR147]

Yeah but do you paint your tips lol

not yet maybe that's the future!

[stejohn]

Well Mikes painting his ferrules so............

[Exile]

Retipping Cost

Tips and glue are cheap. My experience of over 500 tip installations is priceless. I'll level the ferrule on my lathe, if its needed. I'll only let a cue out of my possession if I think the tip is right. Some brands of tips are notoriously inconsistent. It has taken 4 tips to get 1 job done before. First one goes on spongy or brittle then it comes straight off and I start again.

I charge £5 for my time and professionalism.

My view is if you are willing to pay hundreds for a cue then 5 quid for the business end is nothing.

And it's still cheaper than golf lol

[jim evans]

gather you have a table to try the cue out then otherwise it would take days to sort a tip ,and most people dont want that they want it in hours or the day after

[Exile]

Retipping Cost

Yeah. I always hit a few to make sure it's ok and it's holding the dust well

[archalf1471]

Retipping Cost

£5 elk or blue
£10 talisman
£15 Kumui

[snookerloopy32]

Generally i charge 3 quid to do a tip
or they buy me a beer
If i have one to do in super quick time i have had friends give me a tenner for doing it in an emergency before!
I also find that on a home county game i will take my stuff with me and tend to end up doing 2 or 3 tips so thats a few beers and some food paid for :-)
I always polish up the ferule and make a good job and people come back to me time and time again :-)

[damienlch]

If you use this american method it'd probably cost £50. Seriously could they make such a simple task any more complicated?

He started off by pressing a couple of tips in turn with that thingaling then lined them up against a chart thingy.

I wonder what's up with that... anyone? ...

[ADR147]

He started off by pressing a couple of tips in turn with that thingaling then lined them up against a chart thingy.

I wonder what's up with that... anyone? ...

it's a shore hardness meter - i have done this with hundreds of tips and calculated a hardness for them all the trouble is the system lies. the hardness figure you get does not always translate to the hardness in the way a tip plays.

[frazz]

I normally charge, £5 for elks n blue diamonds, £8 for talismans, £12 for kamuis, thats based on me supplying the tip also

[hatterboard]

it's a shore hardness meter - i have done this with hundreds of tips and calculated a hardness for them all the trouble is the system lies. the hardness figure you get does not always translate to the hardness in the way a tip plays.

to be fair, it gives a number, however, LE pros should go under the leather bullet bracket.

[damienlch]

it's a shore hardness meter - i have done this with hundreds of tips and calculated a hardness for them all the trouble is the system lies. the hardness figure you get does not always translate to the hardness in the way a tip plays.

Thanks Andrew. Learnt something new today.

So, it measures hardness eh... hmmm, can't help but wonder if it measures the hardness of other, ahem, "stuff"... LOL.

[ADR147]

Thanks Andrew. Learnt something new today.

So, it measures hardness eh... hmmm, can't help but wonder if it measures the hardness of other, ahem, "stuff"... LOL.

would take a braver fellow than me to press the pin of a shore meter into himself to find out!