Elk Master Tips

Formula7

Formula7

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Okay, I used the search function and didn't find a thing.

Anyhow. I just bought a repair kit for retipping cues (Tweeten).

It came with all the stuff (including some nice cubes of master chalk, hey hey) and some Elk Master tips. The box can say what it wants about superior accuracy, but after seeing disappointments and lies like the Shamwow, it's always best to hear user reports.

I installed the elk master tip on my cue and am letting it dry now. I will use it tomorrow after I get off work.

What does anyone on here think of them? Reactions, opinions, etc.
 
There are alot of people around here that like them.
There is a bunch of threads about elkmater tips and milk-milkdud search or dudley dudly tips.
Someimes I use a elkmaster tip.
Some of them don't trim well and end up springing apart.
They are a soft hit tip and some flaten off quite easily untill you have a few hits on it.
They must be OK as they still sell alot of them, and quiete a few pro players do use Elkmaster tips in both snooker and pool.
Neil
 
Earl Strickland and Corey Deuel use and swear by them. They can't be totally bad. The only drawback to them is that they don't last long. JMO
 
luck of the draw

Like most tips lately, the Elkmasters aren't as consistent as they once were. It is a little bit luck of the draw as to if you get one that plays well and holds up decently or turns to a shapeless piece of soft leather on the end of your stick.

I have had my fling with layered tips and will be going back to Elkmasters or treated Elkmasters on my sticks. I like a soft tip and I find single layer tips more consistent than the multi-layer tips.

Hu


Formula7 said:
Okay, I used the search function and didn't find a thing.

Anyhow. I just bought a repair kit for retipping cues (Tweeten).

It came with all the stuff (including some nice cubes of master chalk, hey hey) and some Elk Master tips. The box can say what it wants about superior accuracy, but after seeing disappointments and lies like the Shamwow, it's always best to hear user reports.

I installed the elk master tip on my cue and am letting it dry now. I will use it tomorrow after I get off work.

What does anyone on here think of them? Reactions, opinions, etc.
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Milk dud Elk Masters are dollar for dollar the best tips.
Out of the box, they are too soft and will mushroom about 10 times before they settle.
Milk duds might mushroom 3 times, but are great to play with from the getgo.
 
I switched back to ElkMasters after doing the whole layered tip dance

Formula7 said:
Okay, I used the search function and didn't find a thing.

Anyhow. I just bought a repair kit for retipping cues (Tweeten).

It came with all the stuff (including some nice cubes of master chalk, hey hey) and some Elk Master tips. The box can say what it wants about superior accuracy, but after seeing disappointments and lies like the Shamwow, it's always best to hear user reports.

I installed the elk master tip on my cue and am letting it dry now. I will use it tomorrow after I get off work.

What does anyone on here think of them? Reactions, opinions, etc.
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Formula7:

Like Hu (ShootingArts), I also did the layered tip thing for a while, and went back to ElkMasters about two years ago. I haven't looked back since. Yes, the ElkMaster is indeed a soft tip, but I've had good luck with them and haven't come across too many defective ones in a box (unlike LePros, which you'll unfortunately end-up throwing half of 'em away -- but that's a different story/thread).

What I find works well with ElkMasters is that, after you install them, to go and play some "slam ball" (i.e. practice rifling shots in *really hard*) for a couple of days. They'll mushroom, yes, but any cueist with any kind of concern for his/her equipment always keeps tip maintenance at the fore, so periodically inspecting and working the tip should already be second nature. Beyond the classic method of using a fine-grained sandpaper rasp/file (which is what I use), there are plenty of products on the market now that make taking care of a mushroomed tip child's play. In fact, I recently saw something that looked like a pencil sharpener, that you insert your cue's tip into and gently turn to shave-down the protruding mushroomed portion.

Anyways, after a few days of "slam ball," I find that the ElkMasters have pretty much compressed and settled-in to something very much like a milk dud, and are there now for the long haul -- only minor maintenance is needed from that point on, and even then, you won't have to do it often.

IMHO, there's no better tip on the market for really "grabbing" that cue ball and putting spin on it.

Hope this is helpful!
-Sean
 
Agreed!!!

I love em! I have to really screw around just to miscue with them. I cannot believe I wasted so much money oon Moori's over the years I was using them. I bought 50 of the Mueller's milk duds 13mm and figure I am set for years to come.
Dan
 
I like the milk duds also, but recently I have been using the Wizards from fast_n_loose, and those are pretty good too.
 
I use Everest but my best friend uses Elkmasters and swears by them he recently had me buy a case for him and at 38 cents a tip that is hard to beat... He won't toch a higher price tip cuts them off every time ...
 
Since I started using Elkmaster duds, I have no need to go back to anything else. Joey is correct. A dud will flatten out a bit, but after a couple of shapings, they're there for good.
 
Wow!

Those are some good reviews. I put on the Elk Master out of the tip repair kit last night (it came with 12). Is there a big difference between Tweeten and Meuller Elk Masters?

I've yet to go shoot with it, but from what you guys are all saying, I'm feeling confident about the choice I made. I was wondering if I should go back to the shop and buy the tiger laminated tips, but I think I'll see what this thing can do first. Anyone know any good tools for handling the mushroom problem?
 
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