From Kamui SS to Tiger Emerald

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RichSchultz

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Oh my god...was that a mistake? I switched tips and in a tournament last night played the worst pool of my life. I never really thought the tip made that big a difference...was I wrong! The ball was jumping (not jumping literally, but springing) off the tip and I couldn't make a dang thing.

Who knew?
 
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Lol

Did you seriously think they would play the same, LOLOLOLOL They are two different animals, I honestly like Tiger Emeralds a hell of a lot better then any Kamui, I'm a cue repairman and could use anything I want, but for me
kamui is the last tip I would put on my cue. I sell more of them than any other tip out there because people are just cough up on Kamui, The fact is there are better layered tips out there in my opinion, Like G 2's Zan Wizzards and so on. It just sounds to me that you did not give yourself enough time to get use to it and make the adjustment between the two tips before the tournament .... You cant expect an apple to taste like an orange, Not to mention you went from a super soft tip to a medium tip, Huge difference as well.






















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Emerald is marketed as a soft tip...it is not. Good tip though.

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JT's cuerepair said:
Did you seriously think they would play the same, LOLOLOLOL They are two different animals, I honestly like Tiger Emeralds a hell of a lot better then any Kamui, I'm a cue repairman and could use anything I want, but for me
kamui is the last tip I would put on my cue. I sell more of them than any other tip out there because people are just cough up on Kamui, The fact is there are better layered tips out there in my opinion, Like G 2's Zan Wizzards and so on. It just sounds to me that you did not give yourself enough time to get use to it and make the adjustment between the two tips before the tournament .... You cant expect an apple to taste like an orange, Not to mention you went from a super soft tip to a medium tip, Huge difference as well.






















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Couldn't agree more.

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JT's cuerepair said:
Did you seriously think they would play the same, LOLOLOLOL They are two different animals, I honestly like Tiger Emeralds a hell of a lot better then any Kamui, I'm a cue repairman and could use anything I want, but for me
kamui is the last tip I would put on my cue. I sell more of them than any other tip out there because people are just cough up on Kamui, The fact is there are better layered tips out there in my opinion, Like G 2's Zan Wizzards and so on. It just sounds to me that you did not give yourself enough time to get use to it and make the adjustment between the two tips before the tournament .... You cant expect an apple to taste like an orange, Not to mention you went from a super soft tip to a medium tip, Huge difference as well.
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Hear hear.......

I can't stand that Kamui junk from their tips to their gloves.
The Emerals is actually quite good.
Love the Wizard tips and the Tiger Onyx too.
Been trying a hard G2 for a few weeks.
So far it's ok but nothing to write home about.
 
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Let's read some factual dara on why you wouldn't use Kamui


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RichSchultz said:
Oh my god...was that a mistake? I switched tips and in a tournament last night played the worst pool of my life. I never really thought the tip made that big a difference...was I wrong! The ball was jumping (not jumping literally, but springing) off the tip and I couldn't make a dang thing.

Who knew?
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No, it wasn't a mistake, unless you changed tips right before the tournament. It's good to experiment with different tips. What I suggest though is staying generally close to the hardness you like. If you're using a super soft maybe switch to a soft, and so on. You jumped from a super soft to a medium/hard and that's a rather large difference.

Before your next tip change get online and research all the tips in the hardness range you like and then pick from those. If your repairman doesn't carry what you're looking for then bring him one of your own.

This might help you. http://billiards.colostate.edu/resources/tip_hardness_chart.pdf
 
I'm a Kamui Black Clear fan in super-soft and soft.......medium is still too hard & glazes too quickly.

Having said that, I can live with pretty much live with any layered tip when the hardness is in the 70's.

I can tell you this......it's easier to decide which tips you don't like versus the ones that you do......JMO.


Matt B.
 
When first installed it cuts like and feels like a soft tip, but my experience is that it firms up really fast and chalk adhesion is really bad.
It a cheap tip, but it's also Tigers worst tip in my opinion.
 
I've recently had my cue guy find a good triangle and burnish the sides with
superglue to keep it from mushrooming. Great feel, great sound with no
oddities shooting any shot. Makes me wonder what the hell i was thinking
dinking around with all these tips. Learned my lesson which wasn't cheap!!!
Tried the emerald once, it felt like the tip was plastic, no good .
 
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RichSchultz said:
Yes, day 1...ugh.
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Obviously you practice/play a lot with just 1 cue. It is quite obvious to notice that a certain tip hits differently than another.

I'm surprised the , " It's not the arrow, it's the Indian," crowd has not responded yet :rolleyes:
 
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Did you have the installer take the tip down at all? Any new tip would throw me off in the way you describe if the full tip is installed without cutting it down some.
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Great question...he did take it diwn some; maybe not enough.

I do only play with one cue, great observation.

I loathe the arrow/indian folk sometimes.
 
Blaming missing balls on the tip? lol that's rich. So I guess we should be seeing low deflection tips on the market soon? wouldn't surprise me
 
The tip is the most important part of your equipment. I don't care how good of a cue you've got; if the tip is crap nothing else can save you. I'm not familiar with the Emerald tip, but the Kamui SS is quite different from most other tips, and I'm not surprised that it was difficult to switch. Also going from soft tips to harder ones always seem to be more difficult than the other way around, at least for me.
 
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