How often do you replace your tip?

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Once you have found a tip you like, how often do you replace it?

Also include tip brand, hardness, and how much you play, if you cut part of it off to begin with, if you break with it, etc.
 
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For a medium-hard tip, I replace it about every 200-300 hours of play.
 
I go through about 3 Elk Masters a year, playing one or two sets a week, practicing about 10 hrs / week. (curiously that works out to about every 200 - 250 hrs of play, as sjm suggests).

Also, I shape the tip once after installation, and do not touch it again. It gets replaced when the tip is pounded down to the thickness of a dime (around the edge). I break with another cue, with a LePro.

Dave
 
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I use hard triangles and I replace them roughly twice a year.. I play about 20 hours per week.
 
I have used the Moori M for about 2 years now, and have only used 4, so twice a year. Just changed to a Kamui M tho.

Playing for about 3-4 hours a day.
 
I used Moori Med's for years & have recently switched to Everest. I don't have much - maybe 15% - taken off at install, the Everest seem to play well right away like that for me. The layered tips are harder the further down you start, so you have the chance to personalize them a bit - or ruin them for yourself if you start to low for your liking.
As for replacement, I think each tip has it's own "personality". Some require more frequent roughing to break the glue transitions, some just get firmer faster, etc. I go entirely on feel for replacement, but I do try to play a pair of shafts in at roughly the same rate for consistency. Then I'll replace one shortly before the other to allow for some turn over time. Generally, it doesn't entail much lost motion because I tend to get used to the tip being harder at the end of its life (for me) and get a bit dissatisfied. When I get the new tips on, it feels like more of an improvement than a hinderance.

One other thing - with the Mooris... Something I did w/ them that I learned from Alan McCarty... I'd have them installed & domed, then I'd take them home, put the shaft on my cue, and drop the tip onto a hard surface about 100 times from a height of about 18" or so. Kinda gives the tip a little "tempering". Then when you re-shape it, it'll hold up very well.
 
when it needs it. ive had the same tip for close to two years. ive also changed a tip in 2 months. depends on how it holds up

One other thing - with the Mooris... Something I did w/ them that I learned from Alan McCarty... I'd have them installed & domed, then I'd take them home, put the shaft on my cue, and drop the tip onto a hard surface about 100 times from a height of about 18" or so. Kinda gives the tip a little "tempering". Then when you re-shape it, it'll hold up very well.[/QUOTE]
 
i started using a hard moori about 9 yrs ago and have went back to cheaper tips a few times. i can tell you that the hard moori is worth whatever you local tip guy is charging. i do think that once you get down to about 1/3 of the tip left, that is when it plays its best. if i am playing alot, i need 2 tips per year. i break with my playing cue. it was a 12 yr old schon, great cue, but i just recently went to a predator sp with a steel joint.
 
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Johnnyz86 said:
Once you have found a tip you like, how often do you replace it?

Also include tip brand, hardness, and how much you play, if you cut part of it off to begin with, if you break with it, etc.
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I replace my tips quite often. But I can change back and forth. As far as replacing the tip on the insert and it is one that I really like. I waite until it seems that it is no longer playing well. That has sometimes been when the edge is as small as 1/64 inch.
I like the talisman med and hard superpro, wizzard med and waterbuffalo 1pc. I don't normally break with my playing tip but use a dedicated break tip on the same shaft.

Neil Lickfold
 
If I like the tip well enough to keep it, about 2 years on the average. If I don't, about 2 weeks. So far, Mooris and Wizards are on for the duration. Sniper, Triangle, LePro, Super Pro, Talisman, Hercules, Triumph, Sumo and Kamui have been short-term residents.

Bill
 
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I play with a Hercules H2 layered tip, and replace it every 2 1/2 to 3 years.
 
Hardly ever. I like hard tips and am not rough on them. Don't ever have to reshape them or do anything except apply chalk. I usually end up buying a new cue before they need to be replaced.
 
Triangle tips for me. I make sure they are pressed and the edge is sealed well. Then I replace about once every 9-12 months. Play and break with the same cue and this tip holds up very well. (occasionally, like with almost all others I have tried; you will get a junk one and need to replace it right away).
 
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Triangle tips for me. I make sure they are pressed and the edge is sealed well. Then I replace about once every 9-12 months. Play and break with the same cue and this tip holds up very well. (occasionally, like with almost all others I have tried; you will get a junk one and need to replace it right away).
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how do you seal the sides of your tip? just burnish or do you use superglue or something?
 
@ 1000 hours

I switched to a Sniper (layered) about 7 months ago. Never shroomed. I'll lightly adjust @ once a month to keep a nickel round. I'd say I hadn't gone half thru its life. I play @ 15 hours a week, so I have close to 500 hours on it.

I'm guessing I'll get @ 1000 hours on my Sniper (I believe it is qualified as a medium-hard).
 
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