Tip nonanimal
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I'm a little surprised a synthetic alternative has yet to be developed that surpasses the natural thing...in terms of both performance and manufacturing ease.
Someone on my team went down this route a while back and the best you're going to find is in the link below. It in no way compares to leather but once you get used to it, it'll get the job done.
www.pooldawg.com
Spinster Grip-Tip Chalkless Cue Tip
The Spinster Grip-Tip is a revolutionary chalkless glue-on tip that reduces miscues and eliminates the mess of chalk!
www.pooldawg.com
There was a company that made some but I can't find any info about it now. You can get a break/jump tip made out of plastic or non-organic fiber. The White Diamond may be OK to use for playing without a large amount of spin but it would be a hard tip as a playing tip.
Also ki-tech tips from outsville may be a option, although I cant say with certainity the tip is 100% animal free, however they claim to not use leather , pigskin, or water buffalo.
Outsville Ki-Tech Pool Cue Tip (Single)
With COR testing behind every tip, the Outsville Ki-Tech pool cue tips are a single layer tip designed to last and hold its density far longer than other tips on the market.
www.pooldawg.com
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I think that Pooldawg has wrong info about the KiTech tips, pretty sure they are normal leather tips that were treated with stuff. The Outsville site states they are "regular single layer tips" that are treated.
Also ki-tech tips from outsville may be a option, although I cant say with certainity the tip is 100% animal free, however they claim to not use leather , pigskin, or water buffalo.
Outsville Ki-Tech Pool Cue Tip (Single)
With COR testing behind every tip, the Outsville Ki-Tech pool cue tips are a single layer tip designed to last and hold its density far longer than other tips on the market.
Ki-Tech Performance Tip (MS was replaced by the SuperDud Soft)
Ki-Techs are what we consider hybrids. They start out as regular single layered tips and are chemically stripped and treated to create the grade we want them to be so they outlast traditional tips and stay the grade you purchased months longer than most other tips on the market. While we use...
outsville.com
Even if every pool player world wide stopped using leather tips, not one single animal would be spared.
With extra meat please!!!
When God invented the cow he realized it was the perfect critter, it turns grass into steak.
Waiting for synthetic rubber.
Why?
how do you figure? I honestly don't know, but it's logical that if we don't need animals dead, we're less likely to kill them.
sounds fun, I'd try it out. vulcanized rubber is good enough for table cushions, anyway-
L.S. Dennis
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I've told this story at least a couple of times but since you mentioned rubber tip I'll briefly mention it again. Back in the 90's I worked the night shift at United Airlines in San Francisco and part of my duties there involved being on the ramp quite a bit during that time. One night I saw some scrap aircraft rubber laying around on the ramp so I thought I'd bring a chunk of it home and put it on my lathe and fashion a cue tip of that hard aircraft rubber. I thought a hard rubber tip that would never need to be chalked what's not to like. Well let's just say that this first thing next morning I put in order for a new box of Le Pro tips. I will say the wild action it produced would have made Earl salivate, but all in all an interesting experiment that went array.
That tip is shown as not needing chalk. Does your teammate use chalk on those tips?Someone on my team went down this route a while back and the best you're going to find is in the link below. It in no way compares to leather but once you get used to it, it'll get the job done.
Spinster Grip-Tip Chalkless Cue Tip
The Spinster Grip-Tip is a revolutionary chalkless glue-on tip that reduces miscues and eliminates the mess of chalk!
For those wondering about the animal sources of tip leather, for unlayered tips I think the majority are made from water buffalo. Here is an article about that animal. Considering the use for food, I suspect that as stated above use for cue tips is not a factor in how many animals are slaughtered each year.
For layered tips, I think the main leather is pigskin and again I doubt that Moori fanatics are leading to the otherwise pointless slaughter of pigs. Speaking of which, I wonder if the whole point of layered tips is to be able to make a tip locally in Japan (from pigs) without importing leather (from foreign buffaloes).
Water buffalo - Wikipedia
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L.S. Dennis
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It seems that in this day and time with the inventions of carbon fiber shafts, phenolic break tips, and everything else it's hard to believe that a cue tip that works as well or better than a leather tip and does not require chalk has yet to be invented.
Could PETA be after the pool industry? We could be in big trouble. The use of ivory is already somewhat controversial. Now leather, pigskin and don’t even get started on the wraps. Elephant ear, sharkskin, lizard.
Oh My; Toto we are not in Kansas anymore.
We are in the world of WOKE!
Oh My; Toto we are not in Kansas anymore.
We are in the world of WOKE!
The material is out there somewhere.