Favorite tips so far.

[Brother Ron]

As mention in the past, all tips get harder with use.
A tip will harden a little with each use - this is especially true with the layered Kamui tips that have a soft layer over a hard layer =
After some use they will become a hard tip.

 

[maha]

yep all tips change as they get played so what you think is great now is different a few days later. but your mind adjusts to the different minor feel and it is just fine.
same as with a cue stick.

what you need to agonize over is why you still have a stroke that isn't straight on every shot so that you miss long shots regularly.

 

[hello]

LePro. I can't stand the layers of layered tips.

Is there a top player today that uses a single layer tip..?

 

[alphadog]

Is there a top player today that uses a single layer tip..?

They get paid to represent. Now whether they actually play those tips???

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Is there a top player today that uses a single layer tip..?

Top Pro love money, they would play with Players Cue, or Action Cue, if money was right to use product. MLBaseball Player wear Oakley SunGlasses, they get for FREE. Top Player also got financial incentive to just wear Oakley on playing field.


Difference between someone like Efren Reyes and AZ Billiard Members is Efren has skill, and could beat anyone on this Forum with crooked House Cue.


Skill is more important than equipment.

 

[hello]

They get paid to represent. Now whether they actually play those tips???

Wouldn't we know that from people which have seen them play in practice, tryin to scrutinise whats actually on the stick..?

 

[hello]

Top Pro love money, they would play with Players Cue, or Action Cue, if money was right to use product. MLBaseball Player wear Oakley SunGlasses, they get for FREE. Top Player also got financial incentive to just wear Oakley on playing field.


Difference between someone like Efren Reyes and AZ Billiard Members is Efren has skill, and could beat anyone on this Forum with crooked House Cue.


Skill is more important than equipment.

Skills pays the bills, as they say...

 

[Mensabum]

I play with hard tips, but polycarbonate is too hard for me even for breaking. I have used layered hard tips from several brands. They are all quite a few years old. Currently I have Precision (Searing), G2, Instroke, Zan (Grip Hard), and Talisman. I also have a couple Triangle tips and one Kamui Clear Black Medium. I use a gator shaper and nothing else to treat the tips.

You got some nice tips there bro.

 

[Mensabum]

It goes without saying, DON'T buy square tips or square tips made of some super-hard ceramic. Knives don't cut it and a metal file works but slowly. If I could trim it to put on a shaft, it probably would damage the cue ball.

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I see layers. Nope.

 

[Mensabum]

I have so many tips in reserve that I doubt I’ll ever need to buy more.

I think WildWing has everybody beat on that accord.

 

[hello]

For me the G2 medium , A techno dud then milk duds , with Le Pro in the mix as well .

How does a milk dud play in contrast to a techno dud and LePro..?

 

[Rusty in Montana]

Hello , in all honesty I feel they are similar , however my Le Pro tips are 30 years old , while the others are 4 years old or less I'm not quite as hard on the tips,of my cues like I once was , and I'm not playing as often as I did back then .

 

[Paul_#_]

How does a milk dud play in contrast to a techno dud and LePro..?

I feel they are similar , however my Le Pro tips are 30 years old , while the others are 4 years old or less I'm not quite as hard on the tips,of my cues like I once was

I am a surprised.
My Le Pro seemed very leathery but flaky, too. I do shape mine a lot and that may account for a tear in the tip. It also started to mushroom. I just figured that some milk and compression would make it a less-flaky, stronger tip.

 

[Rusty in Montana]

Paul , I don't know what you're doing to get a Le Pro tip to flake back in the days when I played a lot more than I do now they were my go to tip and never experienced that with them but I also changed them out when they got to thin .
I used a 4 way wood rasp as a tip tapper even to insure chalk would stick to it no matter what ha ha

I no longer fallow that practice .

 

[Brother Ron]

I just installed a Le Pro on my break cue.....
I still have two more left over from the 90's - they were always a little hard for my liking on my playing cue since I normally used Elk Master tips back then.