Lepro tip that I had installed hits really soft and does not look good.

I used LePro's for at least 20 years and in the last 10 years, Triangle and Elk. I have not found many LePro's that were no good (maybe 3) and none of the Elks and Tri's. I press them overnight and put them on myself W/O a lathe to heat them up. Maybe I don't know what a good tip plays like, OR maybe layered tip companies and thier sellers and tip installers tell everyone all single layered tips are garbage so they can sell more of the overpriced layered marshmellows at a much bigger profit. Johnnyt

PS: No one wants to put their own tip on anymoe or keep it shaped.
 
Lepro are good tips, my favorite actually. If i can't find good lepro then the only tip that come close to my feeling in terms of sound and reaction would be Sniper from tiger....People always tell me that triangle is close to lepro, but i disagree, for me triangle feels soooo different.

for Lepro users try Sniper and see if it clicks with you, as it did with me, so always a lepro for me then if i can't find it i'll go Sniper, works everytime.
 
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asbani said:
Lepro are good tips, my favorite actually. If i can't find good lepro then the only tip that come close to my feeling in terms of sound and reaction would be Sniper from tiger....People always tell me that triangle is close to lepro, but i disagree, for me triangle feels soooo different.

for Lepro users try Sniper and see if it clicks with you, as it did with me, so always a lepro for me then if i can't find it i'll go Sniper, works everytime.
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Your the first person that I have ever know to compare a Lepro tip to a sniper tip.
 
mortuarymike-nv said:
Your the first person that I have ever know to compare a Lepro tip to a sniper tip.
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They feel similar to me man, specially when wearing down, sniper will get a little harder when it reaches the line, and will play so similar to a good lepro in terms of sound and how it feels, thats how it felt to me and I like it, because ive loved lepro since I was a little kid and Sniper is the only way to go for me when I can't find a good lepro.
 
Bryan is always covered up with repair work. This is what happens when you are one of the best in the area and he stands behind his work. I have never had anybody else do any work for me other than him and it is a 45 min trip one way.

You indeed get what you pay for. That $6 tip install is a wash if you can't play with it.
 
put the shaft back in the lathe and use ultra fine wet/dry sand paper. It's only cosmetic but it still looks like carp. I have problems with the soft LePros absorbing my glue. Went with Gorilla Clear glue with all LePros. I would go with a much better made tip. You can go medium LePro with a soft pad under it plus you will never loose anymore of your ferrule.
 
I just wanted to give one last update. I took the shaft to Bryan Roberts (and I wanted to add a pic of his business card), and I think he did a really great job at replacing the tip, and fixing the messed up ferrule the best that he could (which he did not charge me extra to do, by the way), and I hope that this post will bring him more business in the future. So, if you are ever in Louisville, and need some cue repair work done, then I am sure that you would be very happy with the cue repairs that Bryan Roberts provides. Thanks for all of the replies. I just decided to let a pro handle it, and very happy I did.
 

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How do you all know what the ferrule looked like when the installer did the tip? You wouldn't believe, some of you will, the horrid looking things guys do to ferrules. You can suggest changing the ferrule out all you want, but pool players are notoriously cheap and I'm not about to eat a ferrule job. I just refuse to do their tip. I do agree the install looks terrible and if he DID do that to the mans ferrule, he needs to pay to have it done correctly. I sure wouldn't let the org. installer touch it again. Brian.
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Yeah, I honestly do not know if the person that installed that bad lepro tip did the damage (that I did not even notice), because I did not even understand what you guys were talking about until Bryan Roberts (the person that installed my new Ultraskin tip for me) showed me before accepting the shaft to be worked on by him (because he wanted to show me the issue with it, so that I would not think that he did it to the shaft). He is a really nice guy by the way, and I am very happy with how the new tip looks. The ferrule seems to look better too.
 
SC02GTP said:
Bryan is always covered up with repair work. This is what happens when you are one of the best in the area and he stands behind his work. I have never had anybody else do any work for me other than him and it is a 45 min trip one way.

You indeed get what you pay for. That $6 tip install is a wash if you can't play with it.
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Oh yeah, Bryan Roberts is very busy. I had to drop off my shaft, and come back the next day to pick it up. I really should not have been so cheap. Should have paid a little extra originally, and then I know I would have been very happy. I see now why he gets so much business. His cue repair work is really great.
 
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The ferrule looks a little short....:smile:


Great job though!
 
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why would you want a longer ferrule. OB and predator both are making there shafts with shorter ferrule. If they decide to jump off a bridge I won't follow.
 
stick130 said:
why would you want a longer ferrule. OB and predator both are making there shafts with shorter ferrule. If they decide to jump off a bridge I won't follow.
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Well if the ferrule is shorter than before, then the length of the shaft is a little shorter.
 
justinb386 said:
I recently had a lepro tip installed on my cue, and really unhappy with the way it hits and the way it looks.

It hits really soft, and it just does not look the way previous lepro tips that I had in the past looked (and hit).

Is there anything I can do to fix the tip, or is something wrong with the tip by the looks of it?

It just does not hit the same way that I remember lepro tips hitting.

I added a pic of the tip.

Thanks

UPDATE (October 2nd):

I finally got around to going to Rack 66 (a billiard and pro shop out on Preston Highway in Louisville), and had Bryan Roberts replace the tip for me (with an Ultraskin M), and he told me that he did the best he could to repair the damage that the other guy did to my ferrule, and I think he did a really great job. I am posting a pic (which will be the 2nd pic that you see below). The 1st pic is the job that a different guy did. I will be sure to recommend everyone that I come across to take their cues to Rack 66. Bryan Roberts is great, and very nice too.
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I install tips. I couldn't hand a customer a tip that looked like that with a straight face. That is just BAD. Likely causes are:
1) Cutting tools not sharp
2) cutting blades not sharp
3) tools or blades not at the correct height
and of course the very common:
4) Crappy LePro tip. Sadly many LePros are just junk out of the box. Thing is, this is a cost of doing business for the tip guy. Anyone that does a lot of tips will know a junk LePro from about 0.5 seconds after the first cut. The way you fix that problem is cut it off and put another on.

I must say, however, that #4 on the list will not damage your ferrule. However the other 3 most certainly can lead to the ferrule being worn down in a bullet type of way. Not good. Sorry but that guy needs to learn some things about doing tips before taking people's money.

KMRUNOUT
 
KMRUNOUT said:
I install tips. I couldn't hand a customer a tip that looked like that with a straight face. That is just BAD. Likely causes are:
1) Cutting tools not sharp
2) cutting blades not sharp
3) tools or blades not at the correct height
and of course the very common:
4) Crappy LePro tip. Sadly many LePros are just junk out of the box. Thing is, this is a cost of doing business for the tip guy. Anyone that does a lot of tips will know a junk LePro from about 0.5 seconds after the first cut. The way you fix that problem is cut it off and put another on.

I must say, however, that #4 on the list will not damage your ferrule. However the other 3 most certainly can lead to the ferrule being worn down in a bullet type of way. Not good. Sorry but that guy needs to learn some things about doing tips before taking people's money.

KMRUNOUT
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The guy used sand paper (I am guessing a very low number grit sand paper) to trim the tip down to be flush with the ferrule, and I am guessing that he messed up my ferrule by doing that. By the way, the ferrule was already very short before he installed the tip. There was actually no tip on the ferrule when I have the shaft to him, because the previous tip fell off in transit to me (from a person that shipped the cue to me).
 
Manoman2444 said:
Yep, Bryan does 1st rate work, good honest guy too!!
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Yes, he is a very nice guy, and seems to know a lot about cue repair. Too bad the other guy did not know what he was doing though, because Bryan Roberts is always too busy to do your tip right away and get it back to you within maybe 5 minutes for example. When I was living in Bristal VA, I had Joe Blackburn (http://www.petescornerpocket.com/cuerepairs.htm) install a tip for me, and he did it for me in like 2 minutes, and it was as perfect of a job as Bryan Roberts did with the UltraSkin tip he installed for me. Joe was also a super nice guy, but my point is that I did not have to wait a day to get the tip installed.
 
justinb386 said:
Yes, he is a very nice guy, and seems to know a lot about cue repair. Too bad the other guy did not know what he was doing though, because Bryan Roberts is always too busy to do your tip right away and get it back to you within maybe 5 minutes for example. When I was living in Bristal VA, I had Joe Blackburn (http://www.petescornerpocket.com/cuerepairs.htm) install a tip for me, and he did it for me in like 2 minutes, and it was as perfect of a job as Bryan Roberts did with the UltraSkin tip he installed for me. Joe was also a super nice guy, but my point is that I did not have to wait a day to get the tip installed.
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You could go to the other guy, show him your new tip, and let him know you'd like to use him, if he could up his game to give you result like this every time:)
 
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