I don't know if you were aware of this Jon, and welcome to the forum by-the-way, but Le Pro is French for The Pro. 
le pro tips
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for years i had the same opinion as you. cant tell you how many times i went to my poolhall and asked the guy to put something cheap on my stick. i never asked what he put on it. i dont like my tips to get too short , just had the opinion that if there was a good chunk of leather on my stick and it held chalk that was good enough for me.
after reading all the threads on here i thought i would try something different, so i asked him to put on a kamui 2 weeks ago. he was out of them so i asked what he would recomend, he suggested a tiger emerald. let me tell you i have been having to do a lot of adjusting, its like learning english all over again. i can draw a cue ball back twice as far as i ever have before. stop shots were always unpredictable before and now i have no problem with it.
sometimes there is some to truth to the old saying , you get what you pay for.
I don't know if you were aware of this Jon, and welcome to the forum by-the-way, but Le Pro is French for The Pro.
LOL. And don't get suckered into buying the knockoffs from the street vendors in Tijuana branded "El Pro".
Aaron
As I said, you can go through a box of LePros and only get a few really good ones. And I did just that for years. I had a LOT of bad ones that had to be replaced. Tips are all about consistency and at least some of the layered ones out today are much better than LePros. The first layered tips I played with were Hercules and both were good but were not consistent between the two. As soon as I switched to Mooris the problem was solved. I played with Mooris on two different cues until a few years ago when I got two Triangles put on almost by accident {long story}. Any way, I've found the Triangles to be as consistent as layered tips, cheaper, and I like the way they play. There is no adapting to tips that crumble, mushroom all the time, etc. and LePros are famous for it.
Years ago when I used to see Rempe on the road at different tournies, his case and the amount of shafts he had was quite a site, I'm guessing he had ten shafts. I never asked him why, but felt he used different ones because he had a selection of tips on different shafts. My thinkng was some tips created more spin with the same hit than others, I could be wrong. It felt like he chose the tip because of the cloth/conditions/speed of table for that particular event.
I have a LePro on one of my shafts and a Triangle on the other. The LePro mushrooms and tends to miscue more.
The only time I ever used a layered tip, a layer fell off right in the middle of playing, and I wasn't a big fan of them after that.
For now, I will stick with Triangle tips until something better comes along. I know layered tips are superior, but I'm still weary of spending the extra money on them if they are going to fall apart.
The only time I ever used a layered tip, a layer fell off right in the middle of playing, and I wasn't a big fan of them after that.
For now, I will stick with Triangle tips until something better comes along. I know layered tips are superior, but I'm still weary of spending the extra money on them if they are going to fall apart.
I had this happen to me also. It was quite discomforting to say the least.
I know how people are about their equipment. We are all biased through our own personal experiences, and we should be. I don't ever tell someone that what I use is the ONLY way to go, I only relate my experiences to them.
That being said, I have personally used at least 5 different "well-known" brands of layered tips. Not a single one of them (in my experience of course) could do ANYTHING better than the 50-cent Triangles that I have on all of my main playing cues. Some were actually WORSE because one brand miscued a lot and one or two others wouldn't hold chalk worth a darn.
But.....each to his/her own!!!
Shoot well, my friends!!! :thumbup:
Maniac
I just love layered tips. If fact, the Le Pro I'm using now has a single layer. You guys may be right that Triangle makes a more consistent product than Le Pro.
In other news, how's the milk dudded elk master? I'm thinking about trying this next for mere pennies.
what's a milk dudded elk???
I don't know if you were aware of this Jon, and welcome to the forum by-the-way, but Le Pro is French for The Pro.
thanks for the warm welcome
i dont speak french, i do realize that 
please don't be mistaken. i too fully believe that all the different brands out there are no more different than others, maybe a bit here and there, but the difference is minimal and we amatuers cant find the difference.
i believe as long as the technique is sound, any tip would suffice to be honest.
the only reason why i started this thread is simply to statisfy my curiousity
and learn, for i am a mere student of the beautiful game.
For many years I had a lathe and found that if I bevel cut the le pro slightly the side of the tip would straighten out and never mushroom. I would have to burnish the tip somewhat more when new but it Never mushroomed like ones that were not bevel cut, nature of this particular tip.
You can purchase the Talisman tips individually on EBay.
A Milk Dud is an Elk Master tip thats been soaked in milk and pressed.
They play like a soft tip yet won't flatten or mushroom.
A Dud can last a very long time on your shaft.
Some also press the Le Pros and Triangles.
Theres a guy on AZ, Pooldawg8 who makes and sells the Duds.
Very reasonably priced. Send him a PM.
A Milk Dud is an Elk Master tip thats been soaked in milk and pressed.
They play like a soft tip yet won't flatten or mushroom.
A Dud can last a very long time on your shaft.
Some also press the Le Pros and Triangles.
Theres a guy on AZ, Pooldawg8 who makes and sells the Duds.
Very reasonably priced. Send him a PM.