elk master tips
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What other better (more expensive) tips are good and mushy like Elk Masters?
LOL, well that is what you guys are calling it. I call it soft. I've tried several kinds and I can't find another tip that hits soft like a brand new (not pressed) Elk Master. Of course after just a few days that GREAT soft feel is gone because of use.
LOL, well that is what you guys are calling it. I call it soft. I've tried several kinds and I can't find another tip that hits soft like a brand new (not pressed) Elk Master. Of course after just a few days that GREAT soft feel is gone because of use.
CaptainJR said:
I don't have personal experience with these tips, but people who's opinion I respect have told me the Tiger layered Soft tips and the Tiger Sniper come as close to that Elk Master feel as anything. And they hold their shape. The Tiger Soft is softer than the Tiger Sniper.
for the money they are a good tip. i bought a box and made my money back the same weekend. i like the way they play. their nothing like my morri medium but a fraction of the price. i have a morri on my main playing cue and elk masters on the rest of em. id say about 95% of play id rather be using a elk master....but those dificult shots where a lot of english is needed i would rather have a morri. just my 2 cents...thanks for all the replys guys
Jay
Jay
also...they dont really mushroom if burnished good. the one i put on mine was the trial and error tip so to say. i did a horrible job burnishing it. and it has mushroomed a bit. on the other hand i put one on my friends cue wich he breaks and plays with it and has almost no mushrooming. i burnished his much better...looking like glass. then again it could be the lack of consistancy as previously stated. he may have gotten the better of the 2 tips...dunno
Jay
Jay
trueblu8 said:
No glaze over or Mushrooming. It just gets harder. The hitting just packs it down I think. I could have exagerated a little. It is still like a soft tip, but not as soft as it is when you first put it on.
I make myself use to it being the way it is after it is broke in. So when I put a new one on I always plan on practicing with it for a couple hours and hit a lot of balls hard. Then reshape it and it is ready to go. Probably accomplishes the same thing as when they press them before putting them on.
I really do like how it feels at first but since it doesn't stay that way very long, I make sure I don't get use to it or use it like that when playing a match. Guess I'll have to try one of these Tigar softs to see if it stays soft after playing with it.
CaptainJR said:
Blue Diamond tips are soft and very close to elkmaster. They both are a coarse grain leather. Like all tips they will compress over time but at a slower rate. What helps is burnish the sides well to help retain that soft feel.
Blue Diamonds are a bit hard to find 13mm + but if you have a smaller shaft shouldn't be a problem. They are sold on ebay in the UK.
Rod
elk master tips are a soft tip but the thing is that when you hit a ball on the table you get a soft hit from the tip
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DougT said:
When you get an Elkmaster tip then thats probably going to be a blue one on the end of your cue.
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That's were the saying "they are so poor they don't have a pot to piss in"... if you had a pot to piss in then at least you could sell it to the tannery. They would give you a few cents for your urine. They would use the urine to tan leather.