Patent ID: 7210233

Claim:
A cue stick tip shaper for shaping and reshaping a cue tip on a cue stick used for playing pool or billiards, comprising: a base; an arrangement of articulable guides for receiving and aligning a cue stick tip received therebetween, each guide independently slides in a plane that is parallel to a surface of the base; and a scuff surface arranged on the base adjacent the surface of the base and in alignment with the guides for shaping a playing surface of said cue tip, the scuff surface having a generally hemispheric shape, the base, the guides and the scuff surface cooperating to maintain a cue stick in longitudinal alignment with the scuff surface on the base the rotation of the cue stick about its longitudinal axis and pressuring of the thereon against the scuff surface providing a generally hemispheric contour to cue tip that is substantially concentric with the longitudinal axis of the cue stick.