all tips are water buffalo?

[DireMcCain]

Interesting day at the billiards store...talking about a new tip- water buffalo- and the owner tells me that all the tips are water buffalo...except the layered tips...I find this hard to accept...any truth to that statement?

wtf?

 

[Sheldon]

All water buffalo tips are water buffalo.
Most of the layered tips are pig.
Most others are cow. (elmaster, lepro, triangle, etc.)

 

[cueman]

Water Buffalo tips are rare except on cheaper import cues. If you get a cheap import cue and the tip feels way to hard then you most likely have a water buffalo tip. So there is no truth to the statement, unless he does not consider other types of tips worthy to be called tips.

 

[KJ Cues]

Schon tips are water buffalo. From Terry's lips to my ear.

 

[rhncue]

I heard, or read, a number of years ago that Tweeten used water buffalo to make LePro's but a little while ago I did my best to find what Tweeten uses and all their site say's is "finest vegetable tanned Oak leather". I then looked at vegetable Oak leather which is tanen tanned compared to chrome tanned. It was developed in St. Louis Mo for saddles and harnesses and( cue tips apparently). It's a more expensive leather and takes longer to make than the blue chromate tanned leather such as the Elk Masters. It also said that the vegetable tanned is very strong when thick and that the chromed tanned is strong when thin.

Don't know what this adds to this discussion but I didn't want to do all of that reading and not find anything worth putting on paper. Another little tidbit to stuff into the volumes of useless information I've acquired through the years in the back of my brain.

Dick

 

[WildWing]

No, there's no truth to the statement that all tips are water buffalo. I assume you're talking single layer tips, as a lot of layered tips as we already know are pigskin. Water buffalo tips are available, and are usually fairly thick. But the older Champion, Crown, Le Pro, and I would assume current Le Pro and Triangle are cow hide. Here are some pics of older Champion and Crown tips, for example, which I can assure you are not water buffalo.