Native name 有限会社毛利工房 Type Yūgen gaisha Founder Hideo Moori Headquarters Tokyo, Japan | Romanized name Yūgen Kaisha Mōri Kōbō Industry Billiard cues Key people Hideo Moori Founded 1983 | |
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Moori Kobo (有限会社毛利工房, Yūgen Kaisha Mōri Kōbō) is a Japanese manufacturer of billiards and pool cue tips. Originally fabricated by hand by founder Hideo Moori in his home outside Tokyo, 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 technique to make a cue tip. Moori tips received their first major exposure during the WPA World Nine-ball Championship 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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