Jump/Break Cue Tip Question...Please Look

Which tip to get on a Jump/Break

  • Joseph Picone's White Diamond Tip

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • Phenolic Ferule/Tip Combo

    Votes: 13 68.4%
  • Total voters
    19
a9ballbr8k

a9ballbr8k

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I am looking to get a jump break and wondered people's opinions on what kind of tip to get. Should I get one with a phenolic ferrule and tip or maybe get one of Joseph Picone's White Diamond tips. If you don't know what Joes tips are do a search or look on ebay. Please vote and feel free to post with comments please.
 
a9ballbr8k said:
I am looking to get a jump break and wondered people's opinions on what kind of tip to get. Should I get one with a phenolic ferrule and tip or maybe get one of Joseph Picone's White Diamond tips. If you don't know what Joes tips are do a search or look on ebay. Please vote and feel free to post with comments please.
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the white diamonds are great tips in my opinion
hold chalk well
 
I play with a combo but I have tried the WD on a few occations. Nice tips. Best tips I have tried for that application. I just prefer the combo because of the fact I don't have to replace tips and no worry about glue and the tip popping off just as they call my name to a match table.
 
Varney Cues said:
I'd go with whatever your cuemaker of choice recommends.:)
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Well I don't have a "cuemaker". Which tip do you say Varney?
 
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a9ballbr8k said:
I am looking to get a jump break and wondered people's opinions on what kind of tip to get. Should I get one with a phenolic ferrule and tip or maybe get one of Joseph Picone's White Diamond tips. If you don't know what Joes tips are do a search or look on ebay. Please vote and feel free to post with comments please.
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Those white diamonds are awesome, however, there is one MAJOR downside to them. I have yet to get one to stay on longer than a week... I'd *LOVE* to find a way to make them stay on, they really do hold chalk great and jump effortlessly.

Let me know if you guys have any secrets on the subject!

As for the tip/ferrule combination, it will never pop off...based on that, go for it. The downside, is that they hold chalk significantly short of "well."
 
seymore15074 said:
The downside, is that they hold chalk significantly short of "well."
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This is not correct. First let me make it clear there are 2 different phenolics being used by makers. One is the standard phenolic like Fury originally used. These don't hold chalk well and are a bit brittle. I've seen many different versions from different makers develop cracks or explode into pieces.
The better choice is the canvas-resin. Its basically a phenolic with a strong canvas weave impregnated into the material. The canvas makes it much more durable...even bulletproof if you will. I give a lifetime warranty on mine. The canvas also will fuzz up a bit and when combined with grooves cut into the crown will allow it to hold chalk very well...ask anyone who uses one.;)
I think you can see from the pic that it'll hold chalk very well...even better the the white d.
 

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I also don't think that phenolic hold chalk not very well. It really depend on how the cuemaker "sanded" the tip. If it's done in a correct way, all the tips will hold chalk very well.
 
J/B tips

I used a brown phenolic (cloth impregnated) ferrule tip combination on my Jump/Break cue and I read about White Diamond tips on this forum and I decided to try one on my Jump Break cue to see if they might help my break. After giving them a try for a couple of weeks I didn't see any advantage using the White Diamond tips on my Jump Break cue. I'm not trying to say anything bad about White Diamond tips and please don't take this post that way, but I prefer the brown phenolic ferrule tip combination on my Jump Break cue. I bought 3 White Diamond tips on ebay and I still have 2 of them that I would sell if anyone would like to try them. This is just my opinion about tips for my Jump Break cue.....
 
Varney Cues said:
This is not correct. First let me make it clear there are 2 different phenolics being used by makers. One is the standard phenolic like Fury originally used. These don't hold chalk well and are a bit brittle. I've seen many different versions from different makers develop cracks or explode into pieces.
The better choice is the canvas-resin. Its basically a phenolic with a strong canvas weave impregnated into the material. The canvas makes it much more durable...even bulletproof if you will. I give a lifetime warranty on mine. The canvas also will fuzz up a bit and when combined with grooves cut into the crown will allow it to hold chalk very well...ask anyone who uses one.;)
I think you can see from the pic that it'll hold chalk very well...even better the the white d.
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My Varney jump/break has the canvas resin tip in which holds chalk very well. Hell I can even draw the cueball pretty good with it.
 
Phenolic ferrule/tip preparation

Varney Cues said:
The better choice is the canvas-resin. Its basically a phenolic with a strong canvas weave impregnated into the material. The canvas makes it much more durable...even bulletproof if you will.
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I use a course file to rough up my brown phenolic (canvas-resin) ferrule before I go play pool. I put the shaft on my break cue and I hold the file in one hand and the shaft end of my break cue in the other hand and I press the file up against the end of my ferrule/tip. Then I turn the shaft with my hand pressing the coarse file against the area that will be chalked and I rotate the ferrule a few times pressed against the file (don't file the ferrule just turn it pressed against the file so the file will create a coarse surface to hold chalk). This gives me a fresh surface on my Jump/Break cues ferrule to hold chalk for the night of playing pool. It works well and I don't remember ever miscuing with my break cue.
 
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