I was practicing a couple of days ago and noticed I could not cue as low as I thought I should be able to, I pulled out the old training ball and sure enough, I could not even get close to the accepted limit on the cueball, was it the tip? It sure was.... but it wasn't the tips fault, it was the idiot who shaped the tip, and that was me, last night I pulled out the Recoil tip tool and shaped it to a PROPER nickel radius, it sure looked kind of flat to me but amazingly it played flawlessly, no problem with going way lower on the cueball, I have heard the tip pik is a great tool for these tips, I haven't used one of those in forever, I was so sure my way of taking care of my tip was better so I never even tried one, the one I have doesn't have those sharp little pins, mine looks like a more aggressive file, what have I got to lose? I tapped the tip with it, played for a couple of hours and it held chalk better than it ever has, checked it at the end of practice and it still had that perfect "roughed up" feel that holds chalk, so was there a problem with the tip? YES, it was the idiot who wasn't taking care of it properly.......
First problem with a Bulletproof Recoil tip?
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SeniorTom
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My experience with A bulletproof Soft synthetic tip:
1) It plays as well as a leather tip, in my opinion. Miscues are no different, neither is drawing the ball or following the ball, those tasks all work very good.
2) the synthetic tip has a ringing sound when striking the cue ball as opposed to the flat thud sound of a leather tip that people are so used to. It's a bit difficult for some to get past, but the sound doesn't bother me.
3) now this is one issue I don't like because it ruins the real reason I put the synthetic tip on, and that is mushrooming. I couldn't believe it when I rolled my fingers over the tip and felt the mushrooming that had occurred. I have only used the tip for about 6 months, and I measured it with calipers. The difference was approximately .010", but nonetheless it was mushrooming a bit. The main reason I went and tried a synthetic tip was to avoid mushrooming with a soft tip, but I was disappointed when I could not only feel the mushrooming, but measure it with the calipers as well. I don't plan on taking the tip off my cue, I still like the tip, but it does mushroom a bit when using at least the soft Bulletproof tip.
1) It plays as well as a leather tip, in my opinion. Miscues are no different, neither is drawing the ball or following the ball, those tasks all work very good.
2) the synthetic tip has a ringing sound when striking the cue ball as opposed to the flat thud sound of a leather tip that people are so used to. It's a bit difficult for some to get past, but the sound doesn't bother me.
3) now this is one issue I don't like because it ruins the real reason I put the synthetic tip on, and that is mushrooming. I couldn't believe it when I rolled my fingers over the tip and felt the mushrooming that had occurred. I have only used the tip for about 6 months, and I measured it with calipers. The difference was approximately .010", but nonetheless it was mushrooming a bit. The main reason I went and tried a synthetic tip was to avoid mushrooming with a soft tip, but I was disappointed when I could not only feel the mushrooming, but measure it with the calipers as well. I don't plan on taking the tip off my cue, I still like the tip, but it does mushroom a bit when using at least the soft Bulletproof tip.
I'm using the hard tip so no mushrooming at all, I was using hard layered leather tips before using the Bulletproof Recoil tip, a Tippik is not a good tool for that kind of tip in my opinion so I was hesitant to use one on the Recoil tip, after shaping my tip to a proper nickel radius I figured what do I have to lose in trying it, so I dug it out of my tip tools I don't use anymore, tapped my tip and I have put over 10 hours of actual practice hitting with it and it still feels perfect, I'm shocked at how good it feels with zero maintenance, if you have a Recoil tip and haven't tried this give it a shot.