Just The Tip

[Billiardnaire]

What is your tip of choice?

Do you have a specific tip you stick with?
Do you mix it up? What's your favorite brand?
Are you loyal to a specific brand or maker?
What tip / ferrule / shaft / joint set-up works best for you?

Share your thoughts on tips below...

 

[gregcantrall]

Why point out he could get a new one with a phone call?
Why "risk" not getting it back?

To me it would be risky to take on competition with new equipment. I also can barely play as it is
To Bugs or Buddy or insert your favorite player here it might not matter at all.

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without direction or planning; haphazardly.

He always had a plan and even a fall back plan with options. Part of being a survivor.

 

[RickLafayette]

I use Everest for my shooting shaft. It usually rates the hardest of the "medium" range of tips. I can do anything with it that I can do with a soft tip and, as mentioned above, requires little to no maintenance. I use a White Diamond on my break cue.

 

[fastone371]

I've accidentally switched to Tiger Everest tips. I was always a soft tip partisan. I bought a new shaft with an Everest thinking I'd get it re-tipped. That was more than a year ago and somehow my beater and extra shaft have grown Everests too. The more medium hardness seems to last forever, be a little more precise, and need less looking after.

I use the same and ended up using them because its what came on the shaft. I have a couple layers trimmed off when new because I like the way a well used tip plays better and they seem to toughen up quicker this way. I break with my player too, no mushrooming, all I do is go at it with a gator grip every few weeks.

 

[bbb]

The search function is your friend
I dont know how old you are but you will be very old by the time you read thru every tip thread thats been on AZB
and should find all the info you seek

 

[Island Drive]

OP, I now use Mori Quick/Hard. Go thru 2 a year maybe 3.

 

[Zerksies]

Using Kamui SS Black, I change tips every 2-3 months

 

[Lawnboy77]

Oops I forgot the topic. It took me YEARS but I am currently shooting with waterbuffalo. Kind of like a high performance car. Straight out of drivers education is not the time for a high performance race car.

Reminds me of all the YouTube videos of the beautiful, high performance cars being wrecked because the drivers don’t have a clue on how to drive the car.

My tip preference is just old school Triangle. I never really got into experimenting. If I fail to get the intended draw/spin on a shot it’s just my fault, not the tip’s fault.

 

[straightline]

I've accidentally switched to Tiger Everest tips. I was always a soft tip partisan. I bought a new shaft with an Everest thinking I'd get it re-tipped. That was more than a year ago and somehow my beater and extra shaft have grown Everests too. The more medium hardness seems to last forever, be a little more precise, and need less looking after.

I got an Action Elite a while back and it came with an Everest. Ditto this ^^^ and the other Everest posts.

 

[gregcantrall]

Reminds me of all the YouTube videos of the beautiful, high performance cars being wrecked because the drivers don’t have a clue on how to drive the car.

My tip preference is just old school Triangle. I never really got into experimenting. If I fail to get the intended draw/spin on a shot it’s just my fault, not the tip’s fault.

Triangle was my favorite or best choice. Started with Le Pro selected by Roger Pettit. Not much different to Triangle . There were times I tried the soft stuff but. Well I see value in following Coles lead.....(on the pool table. )
Tried the layered stuff and determined that IMHO it's a gimmick. Plain and simple, no way do I want a glue layer involved in the calculations.
The pure precision that Cole put on display is hard to describe. One favorite that I got from the pool news local flyer was Cole and Cecil Tugwell in a one pocket tournament, race to 4 played 7 games in 35 minutes with the breaker winning in the second inning of each.
I got to witness him jumping well hopping or popping might be better. The one pocket straight back with a dead kiss. Solution was just hop the cue ball just high enough to pocket the $1000 dollar ball.(passing under the white) Wonder why it was Cole that "They" called when the break and run pot got to $10,000. And yes he did. So Yeah I listened well as a cab driver. A skill I proved in Reno in '78.