I've been seeing break cues with phenolic tips on them and I was wondering if you could use them as a playing tip. To me this would be a great asset. Tips AzBilliards Forums The A to Z of Billiards Online AzBilliards Forums Home. Forums. New posts Phenolic Tip vs Leather tip. gabrielleigh • 4 yr. ago Your best option is to clean the tip with an alcohol pad to remove any oil buildup, then gently scuff the tip with a coarse sandpaper that will conform to the shape of the dome. 60 or 80 grit will work good. Remember to always spin the tip in the paper or scuffer, and not "wipe" the paper across the top of the dome. I currently have a phenolic tip on my breaking cue. I was wondering what exactly the procedure was if I wanted to change to a different tip. I've… 6 custom tips with hardness ranging from Very Soft (VS) to Hard (H). but every leather tip ever made outside an extremely hard phenolic tip with make the cue "hit" "softer" than nothing at all. If you don't know the way multi layer tips remove all of the beautiful things of the hit of a cue compared to a leather tip then I recommend you My daily break is a Fury break I won off from a tournament a long time ago, phenolic tip, a little thicker shaft, probably around 13 mm, leather wrap. not sure on the phenolic or leather tip, and would like a rubber or sport grip. I appreciate the info so far and keep the thoughts/ideas coming. DJ14.1 AzB Silver Member. Silver Member. Oct 2 Personally I prefer something in between a hard leather and the polymer tips. Phenolic can be okay but most I've used felt like glass, I find the phenolic that when you shape up the curve of the tip looks like there's layers like a pressed leather tip, tend to have the best bite/grip which I haven't seen too many like that. Tiger Jump/Break Tip - This is a super-hard laminated leather break tip, for those who don't (or can't) go with the phenolic tips. This tip comes in 15mm diameter and provides great action for breaking and jumping. Tiger Dynamite Tip - The Tiger Dynamite tip is made from 5 layers of pig skin leather and provides a good, consistent hit with good Dr Dave says the COR for phenolic is .87, and for a medium leather tip is .73. We know that the durometer shows a lot of medium tips measure around 75 hardness, hard tips around 80-85, and phenolic is 99. Based on that, we could make an educated guess that if medium is .73, and phenolic is .87, then soft is probably around .65, and hard is .76-.79. And for jumping, all jump cues had a hard leather tip long before the The Sledgehammer, Jump Rod and The Happy Hopper popularized phenolic tip. But jumping with a normal hard leather tip takes good technique. Phenolic and other hard tips let me get away with sub-par technique. I have a sandpaper-based shaper that I use on regular leather tips. Are the non-phenolic break/jump tips so hard that would not work? philly AzB Gold Member. Gold Member. Silver Member. Dec 20, 2016 #4 My break cue came with a phenolic tip and ferrule. The tip and ferrule was one piece.I hated the sound of that phenolic tip. TTWTENK.

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