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is a Japanese manufacturer of
billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions ...
and
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cue tips. Originally fabricated by hand by founder Hideo Moori in his home outside
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, they are now produced in a factory. The tips are exclusively made from vegetable-tanned pig skin, and consist of several thin layers bonded with an adhesive. Moori was among the first to use a
lamination Lamination is the technique/process of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance, or other properties from the use of the differing materials ...
technique to make a cue tip. Moori tips received their first major exposure during the
WPA World Nine-ball Championship The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and principally sponsored and organised by Matchroom Spor ...
in October 1994, and prompted many other companies to begin manufacturing layered tips. Currently, Moori makes tips in three degrees of hardness: slow (soft), medium, and quick (hard).


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