Show Us Yer Mushrooms(Tip)!

[Dave Walton]

Pro granite are not bad tips, like with all pressed tips you need to bed them in, hitting the ball as hard as you're PP I'm not surprised it mushroomed if you didn't play it in first with lots of softer shots. Maybe you did I don't know. A tip that mushrooms is not a bad tip it just needs a little more maintenance than the ridiculously hard laminated tips. Its all personal preferance though, for me id rather maintain a tip that feels right rather than one that won't mushroom

[Dave Walton]

That looks the same as Steve Davis used to have his tip Jrc750. What did you use to get the tip flush at the ferrule but flared out into the mushroom please? I've never fitted a mushroom tip like that before, always good to learn something new

[jrc750]

Stu Green at Greenbaize did it for me
I think he just held the stanley knife at an angle and rotated the cue, made it look very easy

[Dave Walton]

Stu Green at Greenbaize did it for me
I think he just held the stanley knife at an angle and rotated the cue, made it look very easy

Cheers pal I'll ask Stu :-)

[eaoin11]

Yes i,ve seen a few like this muck and have done a few like that myself . Only problem i find if you dont trim the tip by the ferrule then it gets caught on the cush when youre cueing under it .

Ok, I could see that happening.

[x3dnd3x]

Sorry for the blur picture. Taken by my handphone.

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[grimreaper]

Does a mushroom tip play better . Just trying to understand the reasoning why anyone would want a mushroom tip.

[hotpot]

It does,nt play any better than any other tip . One thing that has,nt been mentioned it that an overhanging laminated tip is far more likely to delaminate or split than a flush one or a pressed overhanging or flush tip especially after a bad miss cue/s .

[rob s]

Does a mushroom tip play better . Just trying to understand the reasoning why anyone would want a mushroom tip.

Peter ebdon says it gives him less throw on the cue ball so that could be 1 reason buddy

[hotpot]

Peter ebdon says it gives him less throw on the cue ball so that could be 1 reason buddy

You can see the logic in that as you are hiiting more of the center of the white as its bigger .

[TooDark]

This is a pic i first put on here some time ago, 10mm Talisman soft on a 9.3 mm ferrule on an old John Parris classic cue

Sorry for the blur picture. Taken by my handphone.

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Both very tidy mushrooms there fella's....no flying saucers yet like in the Ebdon video lol:biggrin:

[itsnoteasy]

Jeeze they look good, not just the shroom shape but the dome as well, my tip looks nothing like that wish it did

[MattCash]

Never really gave the mushroom style tip a go, thought I'd try it out with my last re-tip.

[TooDark]

Never really gave the mushroom style tip a go, thought I'd try it out with my last re-tip.

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That's how I envisage mine to look like(with a little rounding off:wink and also it that Omin laminated tip I see as that's what I'll be using?..lol:biggrin:

[jrc750]

Never really gave the mushroom style tip a go, thought I'd try it out with my last re-tip.

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That just looks so wrong lol, but it is how Ian McCulloch has his