Yesterday, I received the following message from a reader:
If you break with your shooter and the tip becomes mushroomed, does that actually compact the tip and make that tip harder? (First of all, I would never break hard with my shooter) My friend Robert has a shaft that I am going to try out and when he handed it to me, the tip was mushroomed because he used to break with it and it’s a medium tip. So is that tip likely to be more like medium hard or should I just reshape the tip and it should still react as normal?
Chris R.
Dallas, TX
It’s going to be the same hardness whether he re-shapes it or leaves it mushroomed. The process of mushrooming makes it play a little harder, although very slightly. The tip is more likely to get/play harder as the height is sanded off the tip as it ages. The thickness of the tip is the important thing in the tip hardness. By mushrooming, it is getting slightly less tall. Same thing with sanding, scuffing, and shaping. This is the problem with non-laminated tips. They play very different when tall and brand new, and at the end of their life at the thickness of a dime. Layered tips offer several advantages: Consistent hardness through the life of the tip, Extreme resistance to mushrooming, Harder in general than non-layered tips.
Mike
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