SimpleParty
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Thanks, I look forward to hearing, though I meant things like trickshot levels of masse. I currently have the hard green tip on my CF shaft and I can get pretty decent masse on the CB
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SimpleParty
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None that I have noticed so far, keep in mind I use the Hard Green. I don't always use it to break but when I'm feeling lazy to bring out my breaker or when I'm breaking 9ball sometimes. I mean it's a given that it won't hit as hard as a proper break tip, but I do get a ton of action, sometimes too much if I'm not being conscious of my break.
Bulletproof Billiards
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We have players who use them to play/break with. They won't break as good as a proper break tip, but they won't flatten or mushroom from breaking either.
Bulletproof Billiards
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True! I know tips can get quite hot during the installation process but we have no way to tell if the crack was caused from heat or something in the manufacturing process.Always something. Don't envy anyone with a new product line having to handle all the feedback.
I realize it's part and parcel of the process, but I'm lazy. Too old to work that hard. At that anyway.
Bulletproof Billiards
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Bulletproof Billiards has been sold to Koda Sports. You can still get them from Koda and other online retailers. They should have them back on Amazon and Bulletprooftips.com soon! Thanks!
SeniorTom
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Tbh, I don't see the advantage of playing with a synthetic tip , at least not the soft one . I have been playing with the bulletproof synthetic soft tip for about a year now , and it still mushrooms like a leather tip . I don't have any complaints about this synthetic tip, but it does mushroom . I have had even others tell me the same thing when I showed it to them. I haven't tried anything but the soft , and wonder how the medium and hard hold up as far as mushrooming .
I have the hard on my "trunk cue". It sits in the trunk of the car "just in case". As such it gets played very infrequently but leather tips tended to get dry and hard in that environment, which is why I decided to try the synthetic.
So far it's worked well, but the infrequent use hasn't tested mushrooming at all so far... it doesn't play quite like my favorite leather tip, but so far it has worked well for this purpose...
I'm curious, have you actually tried one?
i did it gave me too much action. I'm guessing it was a learning curve, but i like to hold the cue ball a little more, so i went back to ,my harder ferule and med leather tip.
SSDiver2112
Esscot Custom Cues
As posted earlier in the thread I installed the soft blue on a house cue and left it at my local bar. This was in Sept 2024. At the end of the month I cut off the expected mushroom. I have not done anything to it in the past 20 months other than scuffing the top a few times. I do play with it myself. I never told anyone about the tip so there is no bias for or against. No one has complained as far as I know and it obviously has been used. Miss-cues and chalk grinding is apparent.
Here are a couple pictures. First installed and 20 months later. Also next to some of the other popular cues. They have triangles installed Spring of 2022 so they have a couple more years on them.
Here are a couple pictures. First installed and 20 months later. Also next to some of the other popular cues. They have triangles installed Spring of 2022 so they have a couple more years on them.
Been using the green (Hard) for 2 years, doesn't mushroom, it's a really hard tip, I started with soft tips then went to med tips, when I tried the Taom Fusion I expected it to be a med tip but it was much harder, if I try a new tip and I don't like it I always leave it on for a couple of months, I usually practice everyday so that gives plenty of time for break in, after playing that tip I grew to like the harder tip, I liked the Taom but didn't love it and was curious about the Recoil tips, 30 minutes of play after installation, I knew I found my tip, 2 years later still loving it, I will say a hard tip is unforgiving with a poor stroke and helps with transfer of power when stroked properly, I have no plans to change from the Recoil tips, put one on my spare shaft and these tips play exactly alike, I haven't replaced a tip with the one's made since Koda bought Bulletproof.
The tip on the left has a proper nickel radius, the one on the right doesn't, looks just like the one I did by "eye" after using the proper tool and returning the tip to a nickel radius the difference in play was dramatic, I now use a Willard's nickel radius tool about every 6 weeks to verify proper radius, if your shaft radius is 10mm or less the dime is the one to go with but the tip is too round in the picture, I didn't believe it till I tried it myself, I was able to hit the cueball lower with the proper radius, see Dr. Dave's video on this.