Adr147 Tip Guide

[pottr]

I feel cutting off the excess, even with a surgical blade you run the chances of loosening up the layers and with my method there's no chance of that as you would be compacting the tip with each stroke of the file.

Getting rather annoyed with you Terry... Once more, exactly what I do!

[damienlch]

I just retip my cue successfully. I tried Trev's method but I couldn't turn as smoothly thus I slowly sliced it bit by bit. Can't imagine the sun is already up. When I started, it was still dark at 2am. LoL.

Is the tip okay? Sorry for the blur image. Its taken from my handphone with my shaky hands.

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Looks good. Kudos to you for a successful re-tip. The satisfaction and relief that it's finally done must have been tremendous.

Practice makes perfect. The time you take to re-tip your cue will shorten dramatically once you get the hang of it and have all the tools at hand... I still remember taking a whole afternoon when I first did it but I can now do a thorough job in less than 15min, maybe slightly more for those thicker laminated tips.

[Terry Davidson]

p2user:

Cutting the tip in half is fine however you must be very careful to cut in line with the layers. I have some tips here from ADR which are called 'Bentleys' which I think were made for pool at they're 14mm and also have 14 layers, with the top couple being very small in diameter.

For these tips I think I would cut them in half to 7 layers each and then shape and use the top half.

Incidentally, with any tip but especially layered tips I never turn the cue upside down and cut off the excess with a sharp craft knife. It takes a lot more time however I use a 'b*stard' file which is fairly coarse and only use the file in a downward motion when reducing the tip. I feel cutting off the excess, even with a surgical blade you run the chances of loosening up the layers and with my method there's no chance of that as you would be compacting the tip with each stroke of the file.

Terry

[p2user]

Tip looks fine m8, I'd be happy with that on my cue. What brand of tip did you use?

Its a Kamui tan medium. Its suppose to be a pool tip but I sanded the 10 layers to 5. It was free from my friend so might as well try it out. Used to be using Tailsman medium.

I think I read that some people just cut the tip on half so they have 2 tips instead of sanding down the layers.

[ADR147]

trevors method is what i imagine all the cue makers use but it does require a degree of practise!

[x3dnd3x]

Tip looks fine m8, I'd be happy with that on my cue. What brand of tip did you use?

Its a Kamui tan medium. Its suppose to be a pool tip but I sanded the 10 layers to 5. It was free from my friend so might as well try it out. Used to be using Tailsman medium.

[Inoffthered]

I just retip my cue successfully. I tried Trev's method but I couldn't turn as smoothly thus I slowly sliced it bit by bit. Can't imagine the sun is already up. When I started, it was still dark at 2am. LoL.

Is the tip okay? Sorry for the blur image. Its taken from my handphone with my shaky hands.

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Tip looks fine m8, I'd be happy with that on my cue. What brand of tip did you use?

[x3dnd3x]

I just retip my cue successfully. I tried Trev's method but I couldn't turn as smoothly thus I slowly sliced it bit by bit. Can't imagine the sun is already up. When I started, it was still dark at 2am. LoL.

Is the tip okay? Sorry for the blur image. Its taken from my handphone with my shaky hands.

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[ADR147]

Bit of a sigh at the end there Trev..

it's old age!

[Inoffthered]

Try doing it like this.

Might look tricky, but with a really sharp blade it's very easy if you take your time.

Here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-hmyBxNn0

Bit of a sigh at the end there Trev..

[MattCash]

As Andrew says, a scalpel is best but if its too expensive, then a simple Stanley knife or box cutter should do the trick no problem. My experience in tip fitting has told me that Talismans are a bit harder to cut than kamui.
Forget about pen knives and get a Stanley blade. A sharp new one will do the trick no problem.

Sound advice there.

This is what I use, very handy thing to have.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SWANN-MORT...ht_2223wt_1111

[x3dnd3x]

Nonono never trim from outside towards the ferrule. That will damage the tip.

Trimming it slowly, bit by bit in a downward motion, as little as you can for starters. Do this till the tip is flushed with the ferrule (assuming you do not want a mushroom tip).

Hmm.

But the main issue I'm facing is that I'm unable to slice through. The tip is rock hard.

[x3dnd3x]

Try doing it like this.

Might look tricky, but with a really sharp blade it's very easy if you take your time.

Here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-hmyBxNn0

Ohh. I'll try this later. But my tip is a 14mm one on a 9.5mm ferrule. I just place the blade and turn the cue?

[Bulkie]

What's the sideways technique? Erm, my ferrule is 9.5mm while this Kamui tip is 14mm. I'm trying to trim out the excess like a square shape then slowly trim again.

So I should just trim bit by bit from outside towards the ferrule? What I'm doing now is trying to slice through the excess from the ferrule down.

Nonono never trim from outside towards the ferrule. That will damage the tip.

Trimming it slowly, bit by bit in a downward motion, as little as you can for starters. Do this till the tip is flushed with the ferrule (assuming you do not want a mushroom tip).

[trevs1]

Try doing it like this.

Might look tricky, but with a really sharp blade it's very easy if you take your time.

Here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-hmyBxNn0