No, phenolic tips do not damage pool balls. Pool balls can break, crack, chip, flake and otherwise end up in a less than perfect state for a variety of reasons. In general though pool balls are as hard or harder than the phenolic tips. The tips do not generally do any kind of damage to the balls at all. BCAPL: The Official Final Phenolic Tip Ruling: Effective June 1, 2009, the Official Rules of the BCA Pool League in "Equipment Specifications" under "Cues," item d. states: "The cue tip must be composed of leather, fibrous, or pliable material. Phenolic cue tips are not permitted." If at any time you wish to change from a phenolic tip to a leather tip, it is easy to simply machine off the phenolic "tip" section of the piece and make it a flat-faced phenolic ferrule that accepts any regular leather tip. Odega is the best break tip around all leather super hard and holds chalk very well. mortuarymike-nv mortuarymike-nv. Silver Member. Feb 17, 2016 Breaks as hard as phenolic, but feels better and gives better control. It doesn't eff up the cue ball either. The Renfro Outsville.com. Silver Member. Feb 18, 2016 #20 One problem I have encountered is that due to the extremely fast transmission of energy through the material (along with the lack of any measurable compression of the material compared to a leather tip) phenolic tips have a much higher chance of popping off than traditional leather tips. Break cue ferrules should also fall under this same advice. Avoid the cues with cheap plastic ferrules and consider having any break cue ferrule upgraded to phenolic or G-10. -Leather tip vs phenolic vs G-10 material? All of these options are viable, and your choice should depend on several factors. FR1A1ay.

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