Expensive tips are such hype - a video!

ideologist said:
Sorry.

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I just found it hilarious that a failed tip (Yes, the backing ripped in half, not just glue failure) could still play fine. I love that sharing that fact caused all kinds of speculation :)

I'm still going to giggle and everyone else will wreck me. C'est last vie or something.
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You're the only here that finds it hilarious...And you also really need to work on your French. That's awful.
 
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Based on the fact that the tip stays in contact with the cueball thru impact until the tip releases its compressed energy I would say you could have just as well licked the back of it and had it stay on long enough for the physics to work... Not sure of what you were trying to illustrate and apparently you aren't either.....

Chris
 
for years people have asked me about tips moorie kamui phenolic OK....BEST IN THE WORLD TODAY AND 100 OR MORE YEARS BEFORE TODAY....lepro triangle..elkmaster ,.triump..champion in a vice ...flaten the crowm..wet sides with leather conditioner..burnish the sides 3mins for that what i call XTRA MEDIUM HARD CLUNNK TONE THAT I PREFER or no vice just burnish...my tips last years and i play hard everyday.a box of each of these cost about 75 bones..every living legend and dead poolgod played with these....thats real science 100yrs and still in biz tweeten...u pay 40 and 50 bones for any of that hyped up bullshit out there then yo ass probally got more money than you got stroke.........ps phenolic ONLY ON A JUMP CUE...NOT A BREAK CUE...HARD LEATHER \BUFFALO IS GOOD..THATS THE REASON PLAYERS SAFTS ARE SP LITING..CAUSE YOU HAVE A BREEK ON THE TIP OF A WOODEN ROD WHAT THE HELL U THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
 
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flufly da killa said:
for years people have asked me about tips moorie kamui phenolic OK....BEST IN THE WORLD TODAY AND 100 OR MORE YEARS BEFORE TODAY....lepro triangle..elkmaster ,.triump..champion in a vice ...flaten the crowm..wet sides with leather conditioner..burnish the sides 3mins for that what i call XTRA MEDIUM HARD CLUNNK TONE THAT I PREFER or no vice just burnish...my tips last years and i play hard everyday.a box of each of these cost about 75 bones..every living legend and dead poolgod played with these....thats real science 100yrs and still in biz tweeten...u pay 40 and 50 bones for any of that hyped up bullshit out there then yo ass probally got more money than you got stroke.........ps phenolic ONLY ON A JUMP CUE...NOT A BREAK CUE...HARD LEATHER \BUFFALO IS GOOD..THATS THE REASON PLAYERS SAFTS ARE SP LITING..CAUSE YOU HAVE A BREEK ON THE TIP OF A WOODEN ROD WHAT THE HELL U THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
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I think you just broke the Internet.
 
flufly da killa said:
for years people have asked me about tips moorie kamui phenolic OK....BEST IN THE WORLD TODAY AND 100 OR MORE YEARS BEFORE TODAY....lepro triangle..elkmaster ,.triump..champion in a vice ...flaten the crowm..wet sides with leather conditioner..burnish the sides 3mins for that what i call XTRA MEDIUM HARD CLUNNK TONE THAT I PREFER or no vice just burnish...my tips last years and i play hard everyday.a box of each of these cost about 75 bones..every living legend and dead poolgod played with these....thats real science 100yrs and still in biz tweeten...u pay 40 and 50 bones for any of that hyped up bullshit out there then yo ass probally got more money than you got stroke.........ps phenolic ONLY ON A JUMP CUE...NOT A BREAK CUE...HARD LEATHER \BUFFALO IS GOOD..THATS THE REASON PLAYERS SAFTS ARE SP LITING..CAUSE YOU HAVE A BREEK ON THE TIP OF A WOODEN ROD WHAT THE HELL U THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
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It crashed Google translation.
 
Tips

It would be really interesting to see 10 of the top players (pool, snooker, carom) play with a variety of tips for a few days and see how they were able to adjust to the different tips.

I bet that most if not all would uncover the weakness's and strong points of each tip quite quickly and play just fine with any tip.

What kind of tip (s) did Willie Mosconi use?
How about Luther Lassiter?

Did Willie Mosconi have layered tips available when he ran 526?

Pool in most part is played between the ears and if you do have that part figured out the best tip, cue, or any other gadget will not make you a better player.
 
ideologist said:
Sorry.

dead-horse.gif


I just found it hilarious that a failed tip (Yes, the backing ripped in half, not just glue failure) could still play fine. I love that sharing that fact caused all kinds of speculation :)

I'm still going to giggle and everyone else will wreck me. C'est last vie or something.
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Are you going to leave it that way and play serious pool?
 
16 years and counting

ktmrider765 said:
threads like this ..is like beating a dead horse

may as well start a thread on why a cheaper leather wrap is better than an expensive leather wrap ...or why a SS joint and wood joint is superior to an ivory joint ....or why pay extra for veneers and inlays when it can just be a plain jane for $x? less

...**people use what people like**..

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I am sure that in the 16 years that AZ has been online every topic related to pool has been discussed in length 100's of times.

Shall we just discontinue the forum and have archives available for people to research?

Or better yet. Next time you see a thread that has discussed something that has been discussed before just pass on by and look for something new.

You will have very little to read and respond to. :)
 
Did not look at the video, but I can say from actually trying out different tips and shafts over about an hour at a friends house that the most spin we got from the 6 combinations of shafts we had between us was with a layered tip (I think a Black King that Mike Webb likes to use) and a Predator 314-2 shaft.

We tried everything from a standard shaft with one piece tip (least spin) to that one.

Least spin was standard shaft with standard tip, then came standard shaft with layered tip (we had 2 different tips there), then an LD shaft with layered tip, then another standard shaft with a layered tip then to different LD shafts with layered tips.

We setup a ball 2 diamonds down from a corner pocket 1" from the rail with the cueball on the spot and tried to see how far to the opposite corner pocket we could draw and spin the ball. The least one got to maybe 1.5 diamonds from it, the most pretty much scratched in the pocket.
 
A couple of comments to your post:

1) Your comment, "expensive tips are for vanity" is a sweeping statement that makes no sense. Do you really think all players buy tips because of what others will think of them? People could care less what kind of tip I have on my cue. And even then, there is no way of them knowing. And I damn sure don't walk around the pool room wearing a shirt that says "I love Kamui" on it.

2) I think you are making another sweeping assumption that people buy expensive tips for spin. I have played for 26 years ... and 18 of those were with LePros and Triangles. I don't play with a Kamui Black today because of spin. I play with it because I rarely have to shape it which makes it last much longer, it is more consistent, and it feels better to me.
 
Wow that is almost word for word exactly what I would type (especially point #2)

The guy that wrote the op just simply reeks of inexperience and doesn't even realize it. At some point everything feels the same to somebody until a certain level of experience is reached. Pull a person off the street that's never played before and they would not be able to tell you any difference in playability between a crooked house cue and a 10,000 custom cue.


GDC said:
A couple of comments to your post:

1) Your comment, "expensive tips are for vanity" is a sweeping statement that makes no sense. Do you really think all players buy tips because of what others will think of them? People could care less what kind of tip I have on my cue. And even then, there is no way of them knowing. And I damn sure don't walk around the pool room wearing a shirt that says "I love Kamui" on it.

2) I think you are making another sweeping assumption that people buy expensive tips for spin. I have played for 26 years ... and 18 of those were with LePros and Triangles. I don't play with a Kamui Black today because of spin. I play with it because I rarely have to shape it which makes it last much longer, it is more consistent, and it feels better to me.
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