🏅 Phenolic Tip Vs Leather Tip
What I've found out with break tips is find a good one and get used to it. Whenever I switched the stock phenolic tip on my BK2 for a samsara, I couldn't control the CB worth a damn but after about an hour I was in love. Then when I switched from Samsara to Taom, same thing. There's a bunch of companies making good break tips.
For some reason, a few cue manufacturers don't use phenolic tips on their jump cues. This is a mistake. I dunno what their reasoning is, but the bottom line is - the harder the tip is, the easier it is to jump. Phenolic tips are miles harder than any non-phenolic tip, and imo they're the best tip for jump cues.
Assuming it's a hybrid resin leather tip like the Samsara, once it's textured well, it should hold chalk well for a LONG time without any maintenance. I'd avoid using a tip pik though, and shape and scuff with sandpaper instead, especially for a resin impregnated leather like the Samsara. The shape you choose depends on your game, how straight
Oct 8, 2009. #1. I have a Jerico Bacote Stinger that I bought several years ago. Well I have decided to play on a BCA 8 ball league and had to change the phenolic tip to leather. I never knew how much of a mess someone could do just changing a tip. I went to a local poolhall that I play in and since they do cue repairs I brought in a Samsara J
1 with the original brass ferrule and regular leather tip. And a new shaft with a regular ferrule and a phenolic tip. I wanted to be sure I knew I had 1 that works. Well the phenolic tip barbecued the leather tip by 90%, I could jump easier soooooooooooo much easier, and like you said the Frog and Tadpole jumped great before.
Phenolic cue tips are not only more resistant to damage, but also better-suited for the forces created during impact, resulting in higher velocity off the cue. In fact, some phenolic cue tips are illegal in tournament play because of the advantages they offer over traditional leather-tipped cues.
This video gives an overview of how to use tip tools to shape and maintain your cue tip. Willard's Dime Shaper and Cuetech Bowtie Tip tool are used as exampl
Bulletproof clear break/jump pool cue tip. These tips are made using scientifically developed hyper-reactive polymer. This tip is designed to shape, scuff, grip, and hold chalk like a leather tip. More powerful than phenolic and is designed to allow you to apply more spin and draw on your jump sh
I really don't notice a difference between them unless its a phenolic tip (which loctite seems to work better). To help get your tip centered back on, wrap a bit of blue painters tape around the ferrule with about the thickness of the tip sticking up off the edge to help form a guide for the tip to go back onto the cue perfectly centered.
Okay- for jumping it s a great advantage- but in my opinion there is still nothin better than a break cue, which has the same weight like your playin cue- with a very hard leather tip- i m know going to buy again a pure break-cue and will keep that *non-leather-innovation* as a pure jump cue. leather for the win givin much more control ingo
CONTROL BREAK SAI. Combining the high elasticity of leather's fiber structure with the high repulsion characteristics of resin, we have created a break tip with excellent control. The new laminated structure tunes power and spin, smashing the traditional standard of break tips. Installation video.
If you have a one piece tip/ferrule, you can have the "tip" portion of it cut off/flattened like a regular ferrule and install a tip on it. If you don't want phenolic, I would suggest a Samsara break/jump (extra hard layered leather) or maybe a Taom. You could also send it in to PoolDawg and they'll take care of it for you.
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