Anyone using a LePro tip ???

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NINEBALLART

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Does anyone still use a LePro tip and why ??? Kim Davenport always used a LePro and tried a couple of different ones like a Moori once but had it taken right off and a LePro put right back on...
If you use a LePro please give your reasons....
 
NINEBALLART said:
Does anyone still use a LePro tip and why ??? Kim Davenport always used a LePro and tried a couple of different ones like a Moori once but had it taken right off and a LePro put right back on...
If you use a LePro please give your reasons....
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No. That tip is Way Too inconsistent. You'll get a bunch of players that still like them. Mostly due to economics. Some genuinely like them though.

Gene
 
There is one on my red and black dot shafts and they are JUNK! Miscues galore and doesnt hold chalk well to me. I love my Moori!
 
I just cut one off a few nights back,it was a bad one I think,I have played with some that were ok but that was awhile ago.My friend Gil Black who is old school swears by Le Pros,he said Mike Eufemia ran 625 balls with a Le Pro!,if its good enough for him its good enough for anybody.
 
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NINEBALLART said:
Does anyone still use a LePro tip and why ??? Kim Davenport always used a LePro and tried a couple of different ones like a Moori once but had it taken right off and a LePro put right back on...
If you use a LePro please give your reasons....
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I use them and also install them on the cues some of very good local players. I have also like these tips but over the last 10 years they have become inconsistent. But, I purchased a Durometer type c a while back and have started testing all my tips before installation on a customers cue. I also give them a good press in a vise after testing to help break them in so there is very little if any Mushroom.

Normally, I have may 15 to 20 tips out of box that do not pass the test with the Durometer. When I get a new box of tips I test everyone in the box. Tips that test below 79 are thrown away, and tips that measure 95+ are stored in a container marked hard. I do the same thing with all tips I buy, while it takes a little time but, it is worth it with my customers.

Note, lately the Le Pro tips have been getting much better again. They have been more consistent, harder, with less bad tips per box.
 
I must have got a good one when I had one put on my first Mucci. It seemed to do well enough but I found myself using my tip pick and shaper alot. It never mushroomed on me and I played that tip for almost a year. I wouldnt put one on my cue now but that is becouse I have been using a soft Wizard and its the NUTZ!!! IMO.
 
When I was playing, I used a LePro and loved it. But, I did have my fair share of miscues - could've just been me because I usually always use english on pretty much every shot...lol!!! But, I did have problems with some tips mushrooming, and yes, I had to scuff or tip-pik or re-shape almost everytime I played.

I swtiched to a Moori when I met Alex and I gotta say it's much better - less miscues, holds chalk better, and production-wise much more consistent.

Still, I would use a LePro if I didn't have a Moori....just a matter how many you have to go thru to find a good one!!!:p
 
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I have always used Le Pro. They were the number one tip in the sixties and they are just what I got comfortable playing with. We did not have durometers so we tested them with a thumbnail to find the good ones. I tried the Moori when All the pro told me it was the nuts but that felt like I had a piece of concrete on the end of my cue, way too hard (and it was a Moori medium).

Now I am told the new Everest tip is the one everyone is gravitating to and so I will try that to see if I can adjust. This because I told Nick Varner last week that I still used Le Pro and he rolled his eyes and said: "Have you hit with an Everest?"
 
I had a conversation with Corey Deuel last year about tips - his was flat as a pancake, there was almost nothing between the chalk and the ferrule. He told me he was still using a LePro.

I had always loved using LePros, but switched to the layered tips many years ago. It had been so long agao, that I forgot why I stopped using them.

:shrug:

I had been unsatisfied with many different layered tips, Kamuii, Moori, etc - so I had a LePro put on and it feels like I have more control.

Like Corey, I feel that the longer the LePro is on there, the better it hits. Corey actually prefers it when the tip gets older and flatter and says that is when it plays best for him. Other than myself, he was the only other person I have ever heard say that.

I do seem to have more miscues with the LePro, but that is probably my fault, not the tip's.
 
Fast Lenny said:
I just cut one off a few nights back,it was a bad one I think,I have played with some that were ok but that was awhile ago.My friend Gil Black who is old school swears by Le Pros,he said Mike Eufemia ran 625 balls with a Le Pro!,if its good enough for him its good enough for anybody.
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Are you sure he didn't mean French Champion?

Le Pros didn't exist yet when Eufemia made that run.

Dale
 
pdcue said:
Are you sure he didn't mean French Champion?

Le Pros didn't exist yet when Eufemia made that run.

Dale
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I think Le Pros have been around for over 40 years now maybe 50,I could be wrong though. :confused:
 
I just bought a few of 'em and replaced my Moori with a LePro.

Mooris have been so inconsistent for me lately, coming unlayered, glossing over, etc., that I finally said "The hell with it' and went back to LePro. It hits really well...and cost much less, too. If I put on a bad one, I'll just replace it with little expense.

fwiw,

Jeff Livingston
 
Fast Lenny said:
I think Le Pros have been around for over 40 years now maybe 50,I could be wrong though. :confused:
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hayden(cotton) lingo was using LePro's in the 1960's
 
Jerry Forsyth said:
I have always used Le Pro. They were the number one tip in the sixties and they are just what I got comfortable playing with. We did not have durometers so we tested them with a thumbnail to find the good ones. I tried the Moori when All the pro told me it was the nuts but that felt like I had a piece of concrete on the end of my cue, way too hard (and it was a Moori medium).

Now I am told the new Everest tip is the one everyone is gravitating to and so I will try that to see if I can adjust. This because I told Nick Varner last week that I still used Le Pro and he rolled his eyes and said: "Have you hit with an Everest?"
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Everest tips came on my predator shafts and when I first tried them I liked them a lot. I was used to playing with Moori Slow (Softest Moori) tips and I eventually changed one of my Everest tips back to a Moori Slow. I still have the Everest on my other shaft and I like it, but I guess i've gotten so used to the hit of the Moori's that i'm not comfortable with another tip.

I will admit that the older Slow Moori tips feel better to me than the new versions. I still have a few of the older Moori's and i'm holding on to them since they are not available any longer.

James
 
I play with LePros. When I started playing pool that was the tip I had on my cues and I just never changed. The Sugartree I got from TAR had an Everest and a Kamui on it and I hit with that cue for about a week and then went back to my Gus. I dont know if it was because I just prefer LePros or I just preferred my Gus. I'm a bit old fashioned I guess when it comes to tips. People tell me all the time to change to this tip or that tip and I just think..well I was able to run out with a LePro...why change?

Its probably the same thinking that has me eating the same type of sandwich or using the same toothpaste after decades of opportunity to change up.
 
I've used nothing but Le Pro since the 80's, I've never even tried a layered tip.

The Horror ! :yikes:
 
I stopped using them when I had it removed from my very first cue that I paid over a $100. I am too embarrasssed to admit the brand, but Travis Trotter loves them!
 
I've been a faithful user of Le Pro and Triangle tips for many years. But that is about to change. The last couple of years they just lose their shape so quickly and often. Even when using the very best ones out of the box, there seems to be a durability problem that wasn't found on the old ones.

Having to shape them so often makes them wear out too quickly. They only start holding shape when about 50% of the tip is gone. By then it has become fairly thin. It could be that Tweeten has changed the tanning chemicals. That seems like the most reasonable explanation I can think of because the hides they use now are the same as they have always used... water buffalo.
 
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