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I was talking with a friend of mine and he said there are various type of elkmaster tips: the classic and the chrome version... I have never heard of different "types" of elkmaster tips, so I was a bit doubtful about what my friend said.... as far as you know there are different types of elkmaster tips or there is only one?

edit: I'm not talking about the different tip sizes ( 10 mm,10,5 mm,11 mm ecc..)
 
Chromed refers to the tanning process. Which as far as I know is the same for all elk master tips.


Slh said:
I was talking with a friend of mine and he said there are various type of elkmaster tips: the classic and the chrome version... I have never heard of different "types" of elkmaster tips, so I was a bit doubtful about what my friend said.... as far as you know there are different types of elkmaster tips or there is only one?

edit: I'm not talking about the different tip sizes ( 10 mm,10,5 mm,11 mm ecc..)
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You can get modified ones that have been soaked and pressed in a vice. They're called milk duds and lots of players swear by them, myself included.
Pooldawg8 makes some very nice ones that play very consistently.
 
Chrome tips. Need flame job on cue and chrome ferrules and tips.

Maybe he is thinking of Google Chrome.

The Blue Hog doesn't subscribe to a ton of chrome. Too much time wasted polishing that could be spent riding.

Chrome doesn't get the girls. Vibration does.
 
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Blue Hog ridr said:
Chrome tips. Need flame job on cue and chrome ferrules and tips.

Maybe he is thinking of Google Chrome.

The Blue Hog doesn't subscribe to a ton of chrome. Too much time wasted polishing that could be spent riding.

Chrome doesn't get the girls. Vibration does.
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That's why they're called Milwaukee Vibrators. And, there's only one version of Elk Master from the factory. Milk duds don't count, nor does using the ones taken off old house cues.
 
Well, I am having my 1st experience with an elk-master tip. (IMO) so far, it has been a good performer, but its not ready for "the circus" yet.

I just came in your thread to see if you kept the same avatar. :D
 
Dunnn51 said:
Well, I am having my 1st experience with an elk-master tip. (IMO) so far, it has been a good performer, but its not ready for "the circus" yet.

I just came in your thread to see if you kept the same avatar. :D
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thanks for all the replies :)
I changed my avatar :D
 
Slh said:
I was talking with a friend of mine and he said there are various type of elkmaster tips: the classic and the chrome version... I have never heard of different "types" of elkmaster tips, so I was a bit doubtful about what my friend said.... as far as you know there are different types of elkmaster tips or there is only one?

edit: I'm not talking about the different tip sizes ( 10 mm,10,5 mm,11 mm ecc..)
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Chrome refers to the tanning process.
The chromium process leaves the leather softer.

Tweetens makes their LePro tips using the vegetable tanning process, creating a harder tip.
 
pt...

i beg to differ...
you've got it reversed

chrome [a metal] is a harder tanning process than vegetable
veg is [almost] always softer than chrome

but the finishing of either leather makes one harder than the other

all the best,
smokey

pt109 said:
Chrome refers to the tanning process.
The chromium process leaves the leather softer.

Tweetens makes their LePro tips using the vegetable tanning process, creating a harder tip.
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smokey said:
i beg to differ...
you've got it reversed

chrome [a metal] is a harder tanning process than vegetable
veg is [almost] always softer than chrome

but the finishing of either leather makes one harder than the other

all the best,
smokey
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Well, you made me check, Smoke....
My first post was relying on memory from the Tweeten people at a trade show.
Chrome creates softer leather.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=PL2hIj8HyraRUvKiRGy4yQ&bvm=bv.53077864,d.aWM

I preferred the Blue Diamond tips but I must have bought a zillion Elks
for house cues.
I use Sniper tips for myself and they remind me of the best Blue Diamonds.
 
tips

All tips are a matter of personal opinion.

Elkmaster tips have been around for a long time.

My no 1 seller is sniper, then ultraskin . then kamui, if the tip is one piece then triangle or milk duds it is rare that I install a elkmaster on a 2pc cue.



MMike
 
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hey pt...

i wont be arguementative as i feel you are sure of what you read. i can only tell you from my life dealing in leather...

it could be true what Moore & Giles say, i don't know. but even so, i feel even if correct it is in principle only. i can't tell you clearly how many millions of feet of leather i have used in my career, many folks think i am an expert - but truth be told, i still learn something new every day.

in the leather i have used for the last 35 years or so, chrome has always been a more caustic and damaging process for finishing leather. and the best leathers i use are always vegie. so much more natural and supple. i based my earlier comment to you on that. but like i said, maybe Moore is correct and i am wrong.

but to note, that true tannin leather is really rare today. i only know of 2 tanneries in England still making it. the tanning process for them is a minimum of 6 months so you can imagine the cost. i could not afford it tho i wish i could.

maybe John Barton can say more. i am too old and young guys like him know more today than me.

all the best,
smokey


pt109 said:
Well, you made me check, Smoke....
My first post was relying on memory from the Tweeten people at a trade show.
Chrome creates softer leather.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=PL2hIj8HyraRUvKiRGy4yQ&bvm=bv.53077864,d.aWM

I preferred the Blue Diamond tips but I must have bought a zillion Elks
for house cues.
I use Sniper tips for myself and they remind me of the best Blue Diamonds.
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Blue Hog ridr said:
Chrome tips. Need flame job on cue and chrome ferrules and tips.

Maybe he is thinking of Google Chrome.

The Blue Hog doesn't subscribe to a ton of chrome. Too much time wasted polishing that could be spent riding.

Chrome doesn't get the girls. Vibration does.
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golden reply my friend.. I had always used elk master until i switch to a layered tips ( moori, then kamui ). I switch because they seemed inconsistant but have never tried super soaking them and putting them in a vice... lol
 
Ron Swanson said:
Bit of a drastic change. Who da man?
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Maurice Ronet, actor who is acting the part of Alain Leroy in the movie "will-o'-the-wisp" or "ignis fatuus". Movie based on the book of Drieu La Rochelle "Feu follet". Pretty intense book and movie.
http://books.google.it/books/about/Will_O_the_Wisp.html?id=j3QbAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
In the same book there is a La Rochelle's letter dedicated to his friend Jacques Rigaut who committed suicide. The carachter of Alain is based on Jacques Rigaut. A very passionate letter and also very painful.

"It would take so little to calm you and to reconquer you. It takes so little to make philosophy change, to make it to go up instead of down the slope . So little?
But only the vulgarest lures would get back you in touch with life and with us. Life could not bring on you but only a very mediocre victory. Money, success. You only had to choose beetween mud and death. Die is what you could do of more beautiful, of more powerful, of more."
 
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