is a Japanese manufacturer of
billiards
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Cue sports, a category of stic ...
and
pool
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* Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
* Tide pool, a roc ...
cue tips. Originally fabricated by hand by founder Hideo Moori in his home outside
Tokyo
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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
laminated
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thin layers bonded with an adhesive.
Moori was among the first to use a lamination 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 Association (WPA) and principally sponsored and organized by Matchroom Sport, who pro ...
in October 1994, and prompted many other companies to begin manufacturing layered tips.
Moori makes tips in three degrees of hardness: slow (soft), medium, and quick (hard).
See also
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Brands
References
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References
External links
* – company's main official website
* – an official website devoted to their tip products
* – another official website, in Japanese
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Cue sports equipment manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
1983 establishments in Japan
Manufacturing companies established in 1983