I was pretty sure they have been around for quite sometime.androd said:
Anyone using a LePro tip ???
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BVal said:
when you get a good one its the best tip period. The trick is getting a good one-its awalys been hard to get them, I had one once that was great I was playing everyday(many years ago) with it for a few months and one day the whole side of it blew out on me in one shot, it was a good one too but it had a big "fibre" in it or something.
The one I am using now(i'm playing very little) is a bit mushroomed but its been that way for along time(100 hours of playing time or more) so when I get it trimmed it will be fine for along time as it hasnt got worse, I have a different shaft with a "New" to me old one over 20 years old, I hope its as good as the one on the shaft i'm using now. They were both put on when I got the cue, they came from real old stock they might be 30 years old ?? I hope the second one is good as the first. :smile: :smile: Oh yeash I use a tip tapper on it every 30-45 minutes to scuff it up a bit, I never ever take any leather with it or use a shaper to scuff tip, tips last me along time(playing hours).
I use a medium le pro myself. I've tried a few other tips but always revert back to the le pro.
I played with a hard LePro for 25 years. Then 2 years ago my new team captain suggested a moori medium. After 2 weeks I was shooting about a ball better. Unbelieveable!
I have had very few miscues with the moori and it retains its shape well.
I had to pick and trim the hard lepro's often.
I don't miss it.
SR
I have had very few miscues with the moori and it retains its shape well.
I had to pick and trim the hard lepro's often.
I don't miss it.
SR
I play with a LePro, I've had the same one on for at least six months of hard play! One trick to finding the better harder tips is when you scuff the bottom of the tip to put it on look at how dark it is. The darker the harder, and, the better the tip! You really want to find one that is almost a blackish brown. When you get the good one's there is no better tip!
Jeremy
Jeremy
icem3n said:
Danny Harriman once told me he used a Blue Diamond compressed tip and I never saw him miscue even once in a whole night of shooting although that could be due to his precision stroke. :wink:
I like the idea of using a Durometer for testing the hardness of the cue tips but I doubt that I can justify the expense.
JoeyA
Le Pro ...
In the eighties all I used was Lepro they were a good tip , very consisitant and very reasonably priced I did'nt think there was a better tip on the market... When I started playing again I tried them for awhile but they did not seem the same ... Kind of like the original moori and the newer moori's... I then tried Malavia and they were ok but seemed to mushroom pretty quick very soft...I went to the Hercules Balbushka and thought they were a good tip so I stuck with them for a bit... Having been out of the game for awhile I decided to experiment on some of my cues... I tired the Sniper and I liked it also ... I them had to try the Kamui but I did not like that one at all I put it on and cut it off all in one day ... I had heard they were alot like a Sniper but to me they were much softer ... I then bought my first Leon Sly and on it is the tip I will use for as long as possible. That would be the Everest I think it is the best tip on the market ... Very consistant and it gives you alot of spin and control... Put out by tiger the same people that put out Sniper but to me it is a bit better then Sniper ... So today I have a few Hercules Balbushka's Laying around , some Snipers but use Everests and will keep a box of these around ...
In the eighties all I used was Lepro they were a good tip , very consisitant and very reasonably priced I did'nt think there was a better tip on the market... When I started playing again I tried them for awhile but they did not seem the same ... Kind of like the original moori and the newer moori's... I then tried Malavia and they were ok but seemed to mushroom pretty quick very soft...I went to the Hercules Balbushka and thought they were a good tip so I stuck with them for a bit... Having been out of the game for awhile I decided to experiment on some of my cues... I tired the Sniper and I liked it also ... I them had to try the Kamui but I did not like that one at all I put it on and cut it off all in one day ... I had heard they were alot like a Sniper but to me they were much softer ... I then bought my first Leon Sly and on it is the tip I will use for as long as possible. That would be the Everest I think it is the best tip on the market ... Very consistant and it gives you alot of spin and control... Put out by tiger the same people that put out Sniper but to me it is a bit better then Sniper ... So today I have a few Hercules Balbushka's Laying around , some Snipers but use Everests and will keep a box of these around ...
How would you compare Everest with Elk Master? I like the softness of the Elk Master. I just feel more comfortable and confident with it than harder tips. Right now I have a LePro on my tip but I will be replacing it with Elks. But it seems people are suggesting Everest if you like Elk Master without mushrooming.
Maybe when my stroke gets better I'd be more leaning towards harder tips. I'm not asking in terms of the amount of spin you can generate if they are the same but more about the hardness/softness of the hit. How similar are they?
Thanks!
teedot aj
Corey uses ElkMaster now
Dave:
Actually, Corey switched to ElkMaster some time ago (probably right after you spoke with him?). He was using ElkMaster at the time this particular "What's in your case?" video interview was done, which was posted in August 2008, although it was probably recorded earlier than that. (If you want to skip forward to Corey talking about the ElkMaster, skip to 2:17 in the video.) He was using ElkMaster this past week/weekend in Valley Forge as well.
I used to love LePro tips, until the cue luthier who I have do all my cue work told me he has to go through literally a WHOLE BOX of LePro tips to find the good ones, so considering the fact he has about a 50% success rate, he tries to steer folks away from LePro since it's a losing proposition (money-wise) for him. Gosh -- talk about a hit-or-miss success rate!
After hearing Efren and Earl talk about ElkMaster, I myself switched to them early last year, and I haven't looked back. I like the "grabby" hit of the soft ElkMaster -- completely opposite to the "piece-of-concrete hit" that Jerry Forsyth describes Mooris give in post #8. (And contrary to popular belief, ElkMasters don't mushroom as much as you think -- even after days of playing "slam-ball" to compress them.)
Anyways, chalk me up as a "former" LePro user, now using ElkMaster.
-Sean
Dave:
Actually, Corey switched to ElkMaster some time ago (probably right after you spoke with him?). He was using ElkMaster at the time this particular "What's in your case?" video interview was done, which was posted in August 2008, although it was probably recorded earlier than that. (If you want to skip forward to Corey talking about the ElkMaster, skip to 2:17 in the video.) He was using ElkMaster this past week/weekend in Valley Forge as well.
I used to love LePro tips, until the cue luthier who I have do all my cue work told me he has to go through literally a WHOLE BOX of LePro tips to find the good ones, so considering the fact he has about a 50% success rate, he tries to steer folks away from LePro since it's a losing proposition (money-wise) for him. Gosh -- talk about a hit-or-miss success rate!
After hearing Efren and Earl talk about ElkMaster, I myself switched to them early last year, and I haven't looked back. I like the "grabby" hit of the soft ElkMaster -- completely opposite to the "piece-of-concrete hit" that Jerry Forsyth describes Mooris give in post #8. (And contrary to popular belief, ElkMasters don't mushroom as much as you think -- even after days of playing "slam-ball" to compress them.)
Anyways, chalk me up as a "former" LePro user, now using ElkMaster.
-Sean
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I was using lepro tips on on my own personal cue when not testing out new tips. I have some new specially made ones that are fantastic. I have grown up using them and when they are made/pressed right they are great. I was having issues with the current production ones but that is now resolved. I am now switching to everest tips as standard equipment on all my cues. They are hard to beat for consistancy and playability. Chris.
Yep, use them over a triangle anyday....
Great tips. BUT you dont just glue them on. Either smush a tad in a vise(just enough to take crown out of the tip) or hit it with a 16 oz hammer about 5-6 times while it is taped down to a concrete floor. It will play about like an older triangle, a touch softer. It wont mushroom hardly after doing this, and will hold its shape very well. I have been using them this way ever since triangle fell off to cheap leather.....
Great tips. BUT you dont just glue them on. Either smush a tad in a vise(just enough to take crown out of the tip) or hit it with a 16 oz hammer about 5-6 times while it is taped down to a concrete floor. It will play about like an older triangle, a touch softer. It wont mushroom hardly after doing this, and will hold its shape very well. I have been using them this way ever since triangle fell off to cheap leather.....
I have been using le pro since I started playing and I feel like I cant play with any other kind of tip. I like the tip to be hard and very small. When I get a new tip I have the guy cut it way down. I do that because I can feel the hit alot better.
Anybody know of a tip that you think I would like better than a le pro? Or one that is similar to this?
Anybody know of a tip that you think I would like better than a le pro? Or one that is similar to this?
It was some time ago that I talked to Corey about that. I believe I talked to him about that in mid 2007. A few months later, I was talking to him at Capone's just before his TAR match with SVB, and I believe he had already switched over to Elkmaster by then. I know the LePro he had on his cue that one day is by far and away the flattest tip I have ever seen. There was literally two layers of leather left atop that ferrule. lol