Triangle is only single-layer tip i'll use. LePro's used to be great but too iffy now. Not a fan of Kamui black's but the brown's are awesome. Play great and last a LONG time. For the $$(layered) Ultraskins are tuff to beat. 30bux for ten tips is a helluva deal.
Tips... Are we fooling Ourselves?
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Well, just to say a bit more... Ernie puts original stock Mooris on his cues.
Lou Figueroa
Tri's are the stock tip for a lot of builders. Good tip and dirt cheap is a good combo.
From my experience G2 tips mushroom more than Triangles. I'm not being biased either because G2 medium is my second choice of tips.
Cant beat a Triangle for a tip....'Ive probably tried 40 different tips in my life but prefer Triangle most..Not for price but consistently...Like Wizard med. and Everest also but Triangle first...
Just what I like anyway....
Just what I like anyway....
They do mushroom, so do the Kamuis.
I just run them through the Williards and it's fine.
Lou Figueroa
If you cannot tell the difference then you should play with the inexpensive tip. No reason to pay more and get no benefit. But most better players can tell the difference. But even then some still feel the LePro plays better, as that is what they are used to. But I install a lot more Kamui than LePro nowadays.
I do the same unless something else is ordered.
Looks like Triangle tips are the favorite here over le Pro. I like the way we can burnish the single layer tips with spit and rubbing it on laminate or granite to burn the sides to help it from mushrooming. I think we're not supposed to do that with a multi- layer tip. I wonder how guys trim the mushrooming part. I suppose with a razor blade.
These are the nuts for trimming a mushrooming tip: https://www.amazon.com/Yoshiharu-Ha...7-catcorr&keywords=japanese+woodworking+knife Really, REALLY sharp.
I think Triangles are great, but I play with hard layered tips. Triangles smash down in about 6 months to the point of needing replacement. Since I don’t replace tips myself, the total cost of tip and repairman time is what matters to me. Hard layered tips last a lot longer for me and I think I am ahead.
I ordered one. Thanks
I think the triangle tip last about as long as any other tip. I furnish and install triangles for $10. I don't do a lot of tip replacements usually just my own but if someone local wants me to I do it to help them out.
eddieautomatic
Temple of Pool Founder
After trying most of the top tier ($20 each + $20 installation fee) layered tips , I have returned to Triangles. Why? After over 50 years playing pool, I actually prefer the old, familiar feel of that hunk of leather. A few years ago, I bought a Willard Tipping Machine and started installing my own tips. At about 65 cents each... TeamTRIANGLE!
Nice find -- if I didn't have a Willards Id be all over it.
So now a different question: does burnishing a tip keep it from mushrooming? Personally, I don't feel it does. I think it just gives you a nice finished look and removes whatever flayed edge you might have after shaping the tip.
Lou Figueroa
Burnishing a soft layered tip is a good way to make it a hard layered tip in no time at all. Burnishing does help reduce mushrooming, but it does harden the layered tip. Pick your poison if you like a soft tip.
i heard this guy, i think his name is Efrum Rays, is pretty good and plays with pressed Elkmaster, so i switched to those and they seem to work ok. only problem is they cost me 25 cents each, so that's 100x less than the layered tips i was using, so they can't really be any good, 'cos someone above said if i were a pro i could tell the difference. oh, wait, i Can tell the difference: the Elkmaster seem better.