Favorite cue tip?

Nullus said:
For a thread that started as a simple question asking members to list their favorite tip, this thread seems to have been hijacked as an advertisement for folks like Kitech and Ultraskin. I have to be honest, I have considered both of their products but it's a little cheesy when you overdue it on hyping your product in the wrong place. It makes one wonder if they're desperate, or struggling to market their product or just don't care how bad it looks that they've hijacked a thread to advertise said items. I don't see the other tip makers on here doing that, and maybe it's because they're letting their product's quality and popularity speak for itself? My advice is to ease up a bit and advertise in the right place. This guy's thread certainly isn't it, much less for folks like Renfro to actually go after the competition's products such as he did in the post about mild duds.
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I make tips and my favorites are my Ki-Techs... Am I biased? Sure am... I guess making tips means I shouldn't share my opinion?

As far as going after a competitions product regarding the milk dud...

How many people do you think make and sell milk duds?? I can think of 4-5 off the top of my head and you too an make them if you so choose...

Going after them by explaining the whole milk/casein thing regarding fat content and raw vs pasteurized??? For all I know Pooldawg8 and some of the other guys already know all this... I do know that most people who try it at home wouldn't... They would likely just throw the tips in a glass of milk, stick it in the fridge, pull em out and press them... They might weigh the fat content of milk to use but it won't go further than that...

That's the BS in question... IF the casein is already damaged or the content is low or any of several things happen in the process you would do just as well to soak the tips in water and then repress them....



Chris
 
I fancy a Kamui Black Soft =)

Looking to get a Super Soft in the future though.

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My newest favorite tip -- having moved from original Moori M to black Kamui SS -- is the G2 M. Love it.

Lou Figueroa
 
Yes, G2 tips are the real deal.they play perfect,hold shape and chalk well and the quality is great, sold around 800 of them in 13 months here in Germany without having a Problem with an Single tip. As i said,great quality.
 
I use Everest the one come with the predator shaft for a while, then I switch to Kamui ss, i kinda the softer tip lol.
 
Love g2 tips. Been using a medium but will try a hard next as I agree they tend to be more on the softer side. I put a milk dud (pooldawg8's) on everything else expect the G2 on my main playing shaft.

No comparison to any of the Kamui tips which I all thought were just really poor tips. Most overrated tip ever IMHO.
 
I've been trying a bunch of tips lately.

First off, ozone sold me fake moori tips in 2008. They are the worst. Don't hold shape, glaze, mushroom. They just sucked. These fakes came with a gazillions layers marked "M". Boo!

Next, real moori mediums. Ok, still mushroom but not as bad as a LePro. Really nothing that special, but have the hardness I like.

Ultraskin Med. I like. So far no mushroom. When you trim they leave "filings" which is a damn good sign. A tad hard for my taste, but they play good. Great deal. A great replacement for genuine moori medium, just a hair harder.

Tiger Onyx. Really, really great tip. Nice and soft but doesn't glaze at all. No mushrooming at all, holds chalk really well. It's on a mega pro taper shaft, so I seem to miscue a bunch, but I'm not sure I can blame it on the tip.

Pooldawg8 milk duds. Really, really great. They are a little harder, but play fantastic (they sorta play softer than they are). They seem to glaze a little more than the onyx, but on the same taper shaft miscue less (literally brought the other shaft to Klein and had him cut this one down to match the other mega pro taper). I doubt these will mushroom. They hold chalk really, really well. This tip gives me the most perfect kerplunk sound/feel that puts me in the zone. When they glaze, just chalking well brings the surface back, no need to sand. During practice I can go about 2 racks without chalking before I see any glazing.

Samsara break. This is awesome for that purpose. Super hard, chalk sticks (for a break tip), can use it as a player in a pinch (just chalk often). Jumps well.
 
Favorite Cue Tip

Sniper for playing, Holds Chalk Well, Grips Great & No Mushrooming.
LePro for Jump /Break, Still works well after all these years but I change it as needed. Used mainly for Breaks as I prefer Not to Jump. (Personal Preference against the overuse of Jump Cues)
 
How on earth are you using a LePro to break with? I get horrible mushrooming on those just playing harder shots. Are you changing then every week or something?
 
jtaylor996 said:
How on earth are you using a LePro to break with? I get horrible mushrooming on those just playing harder shots. Are you changing then every week or something?
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Can't speak for the other poster, but many years ago (10+), I used a LePro for breaking. After reshaping and using it for some time, the it became so compressed and hardened that it was fantastic and held it's shape. Nowadays, I use a White Diamond, which I prefer over the phenolic tips available.
 
G2 Hard
Kamui Black Medium
Instroke Hard

There are quite a few tips I have not tried yet. For me, hard tips tend to last a while and do not provide as much opportunity for trying new brands.
 
Ki-Tech Soft on shafts I use for 1 pocket, PoolDawg8 Milkduds on a few shafts for everything else. Both excellent tips.
 
Tried now a pooldawg milkdud. Although it is for me a bit too soft, this milkdud is very very good!! But still my favorite tip is a triangel milkdud, medium-soft pressed.
 
Soak em, press em, shape em.... Change every 5-6 weeks no problem tip with install $6.00. Changed while I practice. (15 min. Max.) perfect every time. ( I dress the mushrooming in-between w/ a Cue Shark) been using LePro on by break/jump since 1988. No problem... No Need to Change. I like the hit.
 
Change the tip each 5-6 weeks?? A good milkdud holds half a year or more, no problem. Also nearly no mushrooming, mainly some fibres com out in the first 10-20 hours of play.
 
Here is my question to all the players who have responded to this thread.
Why is it,that on the same cue, different people like a different tip,and not necessarily the brand/type that they normally seem to like.
Neil
 
For sure there are at least two reasons: different playing styles + different expectations about the feeling / sound / action a tip gives.

(Maybe a third reason could be that some people believe in marketing tricks, that I don't want to describe in detail 'cause I don't want to talk in a respectless way about things that I'm personally not convinced of.)

What do you think, Neil?
 
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