Solid vs layered tips

[measureman]

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

 

[SSP]

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

In my experience with layered tips is as they age the glue that holds the layers starts to cause glazing, I find that all leather tips get harder over time as well, I've been using Bulletproof Recoil tips since March of last year, it's a synthetic tip so the consistency from tip to tip is unreal, I'm using the Hard tip, there is another guy who went to the Med tip and said it played like a Med hard, my guess is you will start seeing changes after playing the new tip after a short while.

 

[SSDiver2112]

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

Many layered tips are over rated i.e. over priced. IMO

Kamui’s glazing issue is commonly complained about. Myself included. I’ve also tried others like Cadien, Emerald, Zan etc. All have played fine.

Haven’t had any issues with the glue lines. It’s a micro-thin edge of the glue that gets exposed which cannot really affect anything. It is the leather that gets smooth “glazed” due to how it was processed. Some like kamui are more prone to it.

Point is use single layer if you wish, but don’t give up on layered tips over price. Get a good, but reasonably priced tip. You can get an Ultraskin, SIB, or Thoroughbred installed for about the same price as a single layered tip. I’ve been just as happy if not more with these as I have been with the expensive ones I tried. There are other competitively priced tips such as Kamikaze and others, but I haven’t tried them yet.

 

[Cuebuddy]

If you have not tried Nunya tips yet, give them a whirl.

 

[Rocket354]

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

Just wait till it glazes over. They're worse than solid-leather tips, at twice the price!

 

[skor]

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

How long have you had the tip installed and play with it?
The benefits of layered tip are that they hold shape better, mushroom less and have a better consistency in feel.
you probably won't be able to tell the difference between newly installed layered tip and a newly installed solid tip with the same hardness.
With time, the difference is more noticeable but since we get used to things, you'll be able to noticed it more if you had two shafts with the two tips and you get to use them both over the same period of time.
Bottom line, layered tip needs less maintenance. It's not about the feel that much.

 

[dendweller]

How long have you had the tip installed and play with it?
The benefits of layered tip are that they hold shape better, mushroom less and have a better consistency in feel.
you probably won't be able to tell the difference between newly installed layered tip and a newly installed solid tip with the same hardness.
With time, the difference is more noticeable but since we get used to things, you'll be able to noticed it more if you had two shafts with the two tips and you get to use them both over the same period of time.
Bottom line, layered tip needs less maintenance. It's not about the feel that much.

With me, it's about the consistency. I like one piece fine... when you get a good one.

 

[Sheldon]

I'm not very picky when it comes to this kind of thing, but what keeps me using layered is the consistency. Single layer tips are all over the place for hardness and quality, and if you can't grade them before installing or the person installing them can't do it, good luck.
If you want cheap, just get some Ultraskins, they're ~$3 each if you buy in bulk. I've bought lots of them, and can't recall ever getting a bad one.