i second the vote for onyx but i play just the opposite game from paulie i tend the spin the ball in 9 ball using rails to approach the next shot along the shot line, in 8 ball not so much. Anyway the onyx will deliver a very consistent firm hi everytime but will spin the ball very effectively and with no mushroom through a large range of shot speeds. Love these tips never going back to moori or kamui.
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i second the vote for onyx but i play just the opposite game from paulie i tend the spin the ball in 9 ball using rails to approach the next shot along the shot line, in 8 ball not so much. Anyway the onyx will deliver a very consistent firm hi everytime but will spin the ball very effectively and with no mushroom through a large range of shot speeds. Love these tips never going back to moori or kamui.
since the discussion has gotten fairly general . . .
Anybody take a good look at the mishappened pieces of crap the world's best snooker players often have on the ends of their cues? I don't think the concept of radiusing a tip to any crown has ever occurred to them and they often favor a badly mushroomed tip. Yet they somehow achieve perhaps the toughest acheivement in cue sports, perfect scores on a twelve foot championship table.
They typically use heavy metal ferrules that increase deflection too. Think how great they would be if they were as smart and equipment savvy as us pool players. Give them low deflection shafts and super duper seventeen layered elk's ear tips and they would be putting up six packs of 147's! Run out city if they could use a break cue.
Hu
Anybody take a good look at the mishappened pieces of crap the world's best snooker players often have on the ends of their cues? I don't think the concept of radiusing a tip to any crown has ever occurred to them and they often favor a badly mushroomed tip. Yet they somehow achieve perhaps the toughest acheivement in cue sports, perfect scores on a twelve foot championship table.
They typically use heavy metal ferrules that increase deflection too. Think how great they would be if they were as smart and equipment savvy as us pool players. Give them low deflection shafts and super duper seventeen layered elk's ear tips and they would be putting up six packs of 147's! Run out city if they could use a break cue.
Hu
As you can tell by the wide range of advice you are getting, tip choice is a very subjective thing, and people can play well will all sorts of tips.
Cue tip size and shape can be important, but those are independent of tip type.
Cue tip hardness certainly has some effects, but it is debatable whether are not there is a direct correlation to playing performance (with the exception of super-hard phenolic tips used on break and jump cues, where the tip efficiency is very important).
Tip hardness does have a dramatic effect on the cue "hit" and "feel," and these qualitatives are very important to some people; however, the effect of hardness on actual playing performance capability is very debatable.
I hope that helps make your decision even more difficult.
Bottom line: Try different tips and see if they make a real difference for you. Then pick the one you think you like the best. You should be able to learn to play as well with any tip (provided it holds chalk).
Regards,
Dave
All in all your response was helpful. But I am not looking to play better with any certain tip, like you said I need to try different ones to see what I like best, which is exactly what this post is about. I wanted to get a starting point and work from there, I couldnt really decide what I wanted to try first. It is not about changing tips to make myself play better, not to float my own boat but I am a pretty strong player already. Since your from Colorado this will make sense to you I have won the Matchups tournament many many times and gamble with Mike, Louie, Shane and those guys so I have some game. I just want to see what is out there with tips, I have been experimenting a lot lately with different shafts and things like that, now I am looking for different tips.
my best tip for applying consistent english is to work hard on your stroke, and the other part of the topic wont matter a lot.
While I think the above statement is true, I would say that while I haven't played with that many different tips, I love the Tiger Onyx.
While I think the above statement is true, I would say that while I haven't played with that many different tips, I love the Tiger Onyx.
Send me a PM and tell me who you are, or say hi the next time you see me at MatchUps (if you know what I look like). I usually practice with my team at MatchUps on Sunday mornings and play in league on Thursday nights (VNEA A+).
Catch you later,
Dave