Pool Cue Tip Shoulder

Video Transcript

"Along with the curvature of the tip, there's another important aspect to the tip that we want to point out right now, and that is the shoulder. That's the sides of the tip right here. As the cue is being played with, and the tip is constantly being pounded into the cue ball, this leather tip is going to have a tendency to start flattening out. And, as it does so, it wants to bulge out over the sides of the ferrule there, and that's called mushrooming. Well, when a tip starts to mushroom like that what happens is, if you have that off-centered hit of the cue ball, you're trying to impart a certain spin on it, or whatever, it's actually hitting, the force is going down through the shoulder of the tip, right there where it has been mushroomed, and since it's overhanging the side, then it's going to cause a force that's going to push the tip away from the cue ball and, once again, it's going to cause a miss-cue which is not a good thing. So, what we want to do, is we want to constantly keep this shoulders, the sides of the tip, even with the sides of the ferrule. You can do that with a little sand paper, fine sand paper, just wrap it around there, move it up and down. Just be careful not to scratch up your ferrule too much."