Milk Duds II

no but AZB's own pulzcul has made ones using "silk"brand soy milk
i shot with one of his cues that had a silk dud on it the other day and was pretty impressed

Jake

I know this is a little off the current topic, but I have DVD's from the 2004 DCC and that is the point in time that Efren began migrating from the milk duds to laminated tips. He immediately started having problems drawing the CB. I am having the same experience since my switch from LePro to sniper. I may go back to a traditional tip if it doesn't improve.

mosconiac said:

I know this is a little off the current topic, but I have DVD's from the 2004 DCC and that is the point in time that Efren began migrating from the milk duds to laminated tips. He immediately started having problems drawing the CB. I am having the same experience since my switch from LePro to sniper. I may go back to a traditional tip if it doesn't improve.

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Efren must have solved whatever issues those may have been as he has been using Sniper's by Tiger Products for several years now.

Flex said:

There's are at least 2 threads about Milk Duds - Elkmaster tips that have been soaked in milk for 24 hours and then compressed. I'm wondering if anyone has tried the milk dud preparation on any other tips, and if so, how they play.

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Just for the heck of it, after reading the threads on the Milk Dud tips, I made a couple from the cheapo leather tips like you can get at the Academy Sports & Outdoor stores. Soaked two of them in milk for about 26hours then took them out to my workbench and squeezed 'em real tight in my vice between two pieces of steel plate. 24 hours later I tightened the vice down some more. Got them out the next day and they looked like two leather dimes with the thickness of a silver dollar. They were very hard. I glued one onto my graphite cue that I use at home for breaking, trimmed it up, burnished, etc. (there almost wasn't enough thickness to get a properly shaped tip out of it). Broke a rack of balls with it after giving the glue ample time to harden, and WOW, it felt like I had just hit the cueball with a ceramic rod. Lots of feedback through the cue. I thought I was gonna chip the cue ball if I did that (break) too many more times. I went ahead and shot the rack out with the break cue just to see what I could do with the cueball and found the tip lacking for draw and english. I cut it off several days later after determining it to be too hard for my liking.
Hope this helped.

Maniac