My tip is made from rhino forskinI bought one off flea-bay for around 10bux. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3135985000...d=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1
My tip is made from rhino forskinI bought one off flea-bay for around 10bux. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3135985000...d=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1
try SIB, G2 and Precision.............. tips.....................Agree. I haven't bought a Kamui-branded product in yrs. Ultraskin tips are less than $3 and play every bit as good if not better.
I don’t like the inconsistency of the layered tips. I use the Elk Master Pro tips.I have been using Le pro tips for 40 years. Is there any advantage to
the expensive layered tips?
Thanks
After 40 years unless you don't like something like transfer of English or especially Draw, I would stick with what you're used to. I have tried many. Moorey are high maintenance. I tried Sniper and they require breaking in, I used Tiger Everest for many years but just found one I like better. The Predator Victory in medium. Great tip. Doesn't mushroom and you really get a great transfer of English with it.I have been using Le pro tips for 40 years. Is there any advantage to
the expensive layered tips?
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I was a personal friend of Sang Lee and he always used Blue Diamond tips and sometimes Elk Master but he treated them before using to get consistency..Consistency. Because the way they are made they don't compress much like a solid tip. First time I put on a Moori tip I hated it and cut it off. Then I tried it again and gave it an honest chance.
At the time they were the best. There are so many different tips now I would not know what to recommend. The price is fake as far as I am concerned.
When Moori were first around you couldn't get them. Guys were paying $30.00 to $50.00 a tip to get one. This set a false market for layered tips. In reality I bought Moori tips from Sang Lee for $4.00 a tip. The after market created this mystic and price gauging and the price never came down.
This is just my opinion, maybe there is a reason they are so expensive but I don't see it.
That may be the case but he was the distributor for Moori tips and who I ordered them from. I knew Sang Lee as well but would not Know what he personally used.I was a personal friend of Sang Lee and he always used Blue Diamond tips and sometimes Elk Master but he treated them before using to get consistency..
I had a no-name tip [$5 total] put on my $$12.95 no-name stick in 1969 at Jack & Jills, Bill Staten's [Winnie Beenies] place in Arl., Va. and would almost kill to have them both back.I have been using Le pro tips for 40 years. Is there any advantage to
the expensive layered tips?
Thanks
I had a no-name tip [$5 total] put on my $$12.95 no-name stick in 1969 at Jack & Jills, Bill Staten's [Winnie Beenies] place in Arl., Va. and would almost kill to have them both back.
Seems only these layered tips are the ones that mushroom.
Back in the 1960s the king of all tips was the French champion.I had a no-name tip [$5 total] put on my $$12.95 no-name stick in 1969 at Jack & Jills, Bill Staten's [Winnie Beenies] place in Arl., Va. and would almost kill to have them both back.
Seems only these layered tips are the ones that mushroom.
In my limited and very biased experience...I have been using Le pro tips for 40 years. Is there any advantage to
the expensive layered tips?
Thanks
Go with 180 or even 150 if the 220 isnt cutting it. I use 150. Gives a coarser surface for the glue to grab.
About the grittiness of a sidewalk.not sure I've ever used 150 though.
About the grittiness of a sidewalk.
What tip n chalk do you use ?oh yeah and I won't touch or buy anything with the Kamui name on it........... it a prime example of entrepreneurship and I commend them for that.................... "charge more and it will be perceived as better" ?................... all Kamui products are over rated and over priced,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, $30 for a cube of chalk??? you are stupid to pay their prices
Never rubbed a sidewalk. Take your word for it.About the grittiness of a sidewalk.
I started playing with a Crown tip in the 60's, but they have not been available for many years. I used a Le Pro for a few years until they changed something in the way they were made. They would mushroom and required continual maintenance. I tried putting them in a vice before I glued them on. That got rid of the mushrooming but they did not last very long. I changed to a medium Mori and never looked back. I also agree that chalk before every shot is a good habit to get into.
Yup.One of my favorite questions to ask people who like to use "long lasting" chalk is - when do you chalk?
The newer layered tips give you better control and more english if you play and really try to control the cue ball. But, you will have to find out what tip hardness is best for you. Soft tips will generally give you more english if you use a lot, but can mushroom and lose their shape over time. A harder layered tip will hold its shape a lot better and still allow you to use english. Kamui and Morakami both make a nice line of layered tips. However, if you want to stay with a good non-layered tip, I'd switch to Triangle tips. They hold chalk well, hold their shape well, and don't tend to glaze/harden with age and cause miscues like I've seen with LePro tips.I have been using Le pro tips for 40 years. Is there any advantage to
the expensive layered tips?
Thanks