My personal preference for tips is sort of tough because I prefer a firm hit (like a medium to hard), but I absolutely cannot stand the hard ting/ding sound that comes with the harder tips. I have been using several different tips. I use to use a soft kamui which I found to hit quite well the first 2 months. After those two months, as you can imagine the layers wore down and it started hitting much harder than I'd like. I have recently been playing with a Lepro. I really like that the tip has a firm hit, but does not make much noise at all. The only thing I don't care for with the Lepro is that you really have a hard time finding a decent one out of a box. This is just two examples of my preferences to tips. I was wondering if anyone had the same preferences as I did and what did you end up using? Any suggestions or comments would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Ideas/Opinions on Tip?
- Thread starter josh10
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I have one of largest and most choices in tip supplies as a Cue Repairman.
I have a ProShop and Repair business in Largo,Florida and I will say this.
Of the 175 different tips I offer and over 9000 individual tips in inventory,
I promote and sell more--
---Vintage 15mm LePro Tips
Than any other tip in my inventory.
I am also a Cigar Smoker and Had a Large Collection of Cigars and this comes to my next comment.
You have to properly store and take care of your tips for them to stay of quality for up to decades of storage.
You do this buy owning Humidors and have a Humidity controlled and Temperature Controlled environment for any tips that are going to be kept over a 1 year period of time.
PM me if you have any questions about this or if you need access to some of these tips. I have 15mm Tips from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000, 2010 and present.
I have Tips all the way back to the 1940s, PreWar Brunswick Tips, all the way thru the introduction of the first Japanese Layered Tips to Todays Current Tip Production,
The tip you have chosen is a great tip if you have a supplier that knows what to do in storage and provides what you ask for,
To get an even more consistant 15mm LePro, is to:
-----First do a Sink Test
-Put group of LePro tips in a glass of water, The ones that Sink, KEEP!! All others, throw out or use for the Bar Cues.
-----Durometer Test
-Do a Shore 'D' Durometer test on the tip. Put the LePro Installed on your cue, Play with it until it feels perfect, or keep replacing LePro tips until you find one that feels, 'Perfect'."
-Cut that tip off your cue and put it on the Durometer and take a Measurement, say the reading is, "78". Then you have the Base Line Perfect LePro tips to start with on your cue.
-Put the tip back onto you cue with a tip centralizer, (the German ones are the Best, but they are over $150.00) but there are others out there that will get you close to perfectly centered.
-----Play the Life of the LePro tip until it get to the point where you dont like the hit of the tip.
-----Cut the 15mm LePro Tip off of the cue and then out that tip back on the Shore 'D' Durometer and get a Reading from the Shore D.
-----Say the Reading is '88'. This is the upper limit range of what hardness in a tip you like and this will also give you information in the future if you are considering other tips, you then have the Hardness range you like. If your range is: Start or Fresh on the Cue: '78' and at the take off the cue stage is '89'.
If you are looking for a new tip to consider, then atleast start with this information range.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONE IMPORTANT ITEM TO CONSIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!f
LePros come with the Brown Coating on the tip when they are new. To get accurate readings for installation and for the future.
REMOVE--the coating off the top, bottom and sides of the Tip before installing the tip or taking any readings on the Le Pro Tips.
LEPRO is great for this reason, Solid Piece of Water Buffalo, Coated so they protect the Moisture and Curing components stay protected inside the coating until it is removed.
This is also another reason so many information pieces are innacurate on the LePro tips, because they take readings with the Coating on the tip and that is WRONG.
Hope this helps and PM me or email me in the future if you need anymore questions or inquiries or if you need access to hard to get supplies.
Respectfully
Mike 'acedonkeyace' Kennedy
email--- michaelkennedy_1@yahoo.com:thumbup:
I have a ProShop and Repair business in Largo,Florida and I will say this.
Of the 175 different tips I offer and over 9000 individual tips in inventory,
I promote and sell more--
---Vintage 15mm LePro Tips
Than any other tip in my inventory.
I am also a Cigar Smoker and Had a Large Collection of Cigars and this comes to my next comment.
You have to properly store and take care of your tips for them to stay of quality for up to decades of storage.
You do this buy owning Humidors and have a Humidity controlled and Temperature Controlled environment for any tips that are going to be kept over a 1 year period of time.
PM me if you have any questions about this or if you need access to some of these tips. I have 15mm Tips from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000, 2010 and present.
I have Tips all the way back to the 1940s, PreWar Brunswick Tips, all the way thru the introduction of the first Japanese Layered Tips to Todays Current Tip Production,
The tip you have chosen is a great tip if you have a supplier that knows what to do in storage and provides what you ask for,
To get an even more consistant 15mm LePro, is to:
-----First do a Sink Test
-Put group of LePro tips in a glass of water, The ones that Sink, KEEP!! All others, throw out or use for the Bar Cues.
-----Durometer Test
-Do a Shore 'D' Durometer test on the tip. Put the LePro Installed on your cue, Play with it until it feels perfect, or keep replacing LePro tips until you find one that feels, 'Perfect'."
-Cut that tip off your cue and put it on the Durometer and take a Measurement, say the reading is, "78". Then you have the Base Line Perfect LePro tips to start with on your cue.
-Put the tip back onto you cue with a tip centralizer, (the German ones are the Best, but they are over $150.00) but there are others out there that will get you close to perfectly centered.
-----Play the Life of the LePro tip until it get to the point where you dont like the hit of the tip.
-----Cut the 15mm LePro Tip off of the cue and then out that tip back on the Shore 'D' Durometer and get a Reading from the Shore D.
-----Say the Reading is '88'. This is the upper limit range of what hardness in a tip you like and this will also give you information in the future if you are considering other tips, you then have the Hardness range you like. If your range is: Start or Fresh on the Cue: '78' and at the take off the cue stage is '89'.
If you are looking for a new tip to consider, then atleast start with this information range.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONE IMPORTANT ITEM TO CONSIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!f
LePros come with the Brown Coating on the tip when they are new. To get accurate readings for installation and for the future.
REMOVE--the coating off the top, bottom and sides of the Tip before installing the tip or taking any readings on the Le Pro Tips.
LEPRO is great for this reason, Solid Piece of Water Buffalo, Coated so they protect the Moisture and Curing components stay protected inside the coating until it is removed.
This is also another reason so many information pieces are innacurate on the LePro tips, because they take readings with the Coating on the tip and that is WRONG.
Hope this helps and PM me or email me in the future if you need anymore questions or inquiries or if you need access to hard to get supplies.
Respectfully
Mike 'acedonkeyace' Kennedy
email--- michaelkennedy_1@yahoo.com:thumbup:
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Tips
Triangle.......
Triangle.......
If you like hard tips I see no reason to pay money for a layered tip.
Brown Waterbuffalo.
JMO,
Rick
BTW, I like G2s and Triangles the most.
Brown Waterbuffalo.
JMO,
Rick
BTW, I like G2s and Triangles the most.
