Finally ripped the horrible tip off.

Gravey39

Gravey39

Active member
I purchased the 11.8mm 30” pheonix shaft awhile ago. It came with this piku trifecta tip. Which I do not like. It constantly glazed over, didn’t hold chalk very well(I use the v10). Had to scuff it often, it also had a click to the hit that I didn’t like. Just overall a bad tip IMO. Not sure if I got a bad one or something because I heard a lot of positive feedback on those. So I’m back on the $10 kamikaze tips. I tried the blue medium this time. Blue is my favorite color so I said screw it and tried one. Put a yellow felt pad under it. Looks pretty good and for the past couple days on the home table, I’m liking it so far. Doesn’t have any weird clicks to the hit or anything and hasn’t seemed to glaze over at all. I bought the medium tan kamikaze as a backup since I’ve really liked those tips. Overall I still think kamikaze are going to be my go too. Nice price point and very reliable tips.
 

Attachments

  • 77382726-CCA7-4D57-8776-CFD8EFBC4F3C.jpeg
    77382726-CCA7-4D57-8776-CFD8EFBC4F3C.jpeg
    305.5 KB · Views: 121
I'm liking their tips as well. Had the tan tip that lasted about a years worth of play and then bought the new Blue Platinum Kamikaze tips they had just come out with. I bought 10 of them ,,5 soft and 5 med. Like the way they hit and hold chalk. Old road partner just sent me a Ultraskin Med to try, but I'm liking whats on there well enough that I don't want to take one of of the different shafts for my cues. I have been experimenting with the Toam V10 chalk a bit. When I get through with play I take a paper towel and remove as much chalk as I can,, then take the tip and spin it in the towel and almost polish the top of the tip to the point that it's shining like there is an almost yellow zinc finish all over the top of the tip. I have been doing this for almost a month now, and have not had any miscues. It's like the Chalk is adhearing better to the polished layer of toam left on the tip than it would if I had roughed up the tip. Its been over a month playing like this and no scuffing of the tip what so ever, and I spin the ball when needed.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
Maybe wasn't going to last long anyway - in my experience clicking means a bad glue job and a tip that eventually pops off.

pj
chgo
Click to expand...
When I cut it off it seemed to be on there pretty well. Maybe a couple layers up from the base it might have been separating or something. That’s all I could think of. Which might be because it was a bad tip in the first place. When I looked them up to see the price they were $28. There was no way I was going to spend that on a tip just to see if I had a bad one or not. I’m fine with going back to my ten dollar kamikaze’s.
 
Don't want a glaze issue and a great playing tip? Find yourself a GOOD Elk master. By no means do they play " soft" Idk if its because I am installing 13mm tips onto my smaller shafts, 12-11.6 mm, but I absolutely have had no mushroom issues, glazing, or miscues.
 
HueblerHustler7 said:
Find yourself a GOOD Elk master.
Click to expand...
That’s the trick that’s tricky. Bought a dozen and pressed 6. 2 unpressed and 2 pressed on the house cues, 1 unpressed on my sons cue, 1 pressed on my cue.

Every pressed tip played great. 2 of the 3 unpressed opened up like an accordion and had to be replaced. 1 of the replaced tips was crap, so I replaced it with a pressed one.

I dunno maybe it, something I’m doing when trimming or shaping?
 
HueblerHustler7 said:
Don't want a glaze issue and a great playing tip? Find yourself a GOOD Elk master. By no means do they play " soft" Idk if its because I am installing 13mm tips onto my smaller shafts, 12-11.6 mm, but I absolutely have had no mushroom issues, glazing, or miscues.
Click to expand...
yeah but the kamikaze tips are great tips with less of a hassle of having to press a elk master into a dud and or search through a box to pick out the decent ones. I really like the way the kamikazes are. I only tried that crap piku tip because it came stock on the shaft.
 
I’ve been using a Phoenix shaft for a couple years and really like it. My favorite two tips are either a Predator Victory medium or a G2 medium - they are very similar.
 
fiftyyardline said:
I’ve been using a Phoenix shaft for a couple years and really like it. My favorite two tips are either a Predator Victory medium or a G2 medium - they are very similar.
Click to expand...
So far the blue kamikazes are great on it too. I had one of the tan kamikazes on a katana LD shaft prior to this pheonix. I heard the g2’s were good tips. I was going to give one a try on my extra shafts. Sometimes I throw random tips on those just to find one that will become my favorite. A lot of people say tips don’t matter, But I disagree. There’s a variance between the hits and feels of them and some I just plain don’t care for. So far it’s a toss up between moori and kamikaze. I like the KO brothers tips too, they’re just a little too pricy to beat the other two out of the game for me.
 
VarmintKong said:
That’s the trick that’s tricky. Bought a dozen and pressed 6. 2 unpressed and 2 pressed on the house cues, 1 unpressed on my sons cue, 1 pressed on my cue.
Every pressed tip played great. 2 of the 3 unpressed opened up like an accordion and had to be replaced. 1 of the replaced tips was crap, so I replaced it with a pressed one.
I dunno maybe it, something I’m doing when trimming or shaping?
Click to expand...
Some are good some are bad, I test them by tapping them on a hard surface and listening to the sound they make. I've heard of people testing them by dropping them in water, but the sound test has worked for my for a long time. The ones that accordion on you will do that whether you press them or not.
The good ones will make a solid tink tink sound when you tap them, the bad ones will make more of a slapping sound. The pitch can tell you how hard they are when you develop and ear for it.
 
Gravey39 said:
You’re definitely making a Pokémon reference right? 😂😂 My child hood flashed right there thinking of “pikachu, I choose you.”
Click to expand...
No. I don't think I have ever typed anything about Pokemon before this post.

It was more a reference F-you (with you being the tip).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top