LePro tips

Josh Palmer

Josh Palmer

I'll take the 6 :)
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I have always used LePro's, and will probably not change. One thing that Little Al showed me to do was whack a new tip on a concrete floor a couple hundred times once installed, and then trim and shape. For the most part, that works. As much as I love a great LePro, there are a hundred bad ones for one 'perfect' one. Has anyone tried making a 'milk dud' and put a LePro in a vise? Just wondering what I can do to get a harder LePro more consistently. Guido Orlandi had a durometer to measure hardness, and I should have bought 20 or so tips when he was around, because they were all about the same.
 
The last time I was in Dennis Searing's shop I had him put a le pro on my cue. He showed me a brand new box and we went through the entire box and found just two tips in the entire box that Dennis said were worth a damn. He basically showed me how most of the tips had soft spots and were basically crapola.

When you do find a good one though, they are great tips and I, like you, will probably play with them as long as I play pool. It is frustrating though how uneven their quality is.

Hitting them against the floor is a great idea though. I will have to try that out since I end up shaping and cutting them so many times after a new tip is put on.
 
Josh Palmer wrote:
> As much as I love a great LePro, there are a hundred bad ones
> for one 'perfect' one.


I currently use a LePro on my main cue, and it's the way I like it (the hardness reminds me of the Triangles of my other cues). But my next tip won't be a LePro -- of the same reason you mentioned -- it's too difficult to get a good one. I'll probably go back to a Triangle, or maybe try a Moori.

-- peer
 
Glad I'm not the only one getting crappy box's of lepro's.....lol Once I find a good one, I put in in the vice and compact it down before installing it. I have had good results with this. I just use the crappy ones to tip house cues for my local tavern. They burn through tips quick and most of the drunks don't know a good lepro from a crappy one.......lol
 
I recently switched to Triangles not by choice. I have used LePros for 15 years. I bought a new Lucasi and thought they used LePros, but they were Triangles. Love them!......they play like a well broken in LePro...

Gerry
 
Gerry said:
I recently switched to Triangles not by choice. I have used LePros for 15 years. I bought a new Lucasi and thought they used LePros, but they were Triangles. Love them!......they play like a well broken in LePro...

Gerry
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A lot of people really have liked triangle tips that were lepro lifers. I on the other hand can't seam to get used to the one I just put on. Seems to me to hit quite different. I do like that I get a consistent quality out of the box with those. Any other tips that shoot kind of like a lepro?
 
Do yourself a favor

I shot with Le Pros over 30 years, and I would have rated them

about 8.5 on 1 to 10 scale,

But, now, and after layered tips came out, maybe a 6.

I, now, shoot with a Hercules layered medium hard tip, and would never
go back to a non layered tip.

The sides to a tip stand up much much better on a layered tip than a
non layered tip, and you do not experience the miscues nor the
'slipping' feeling of english when the tip is almost gone.

The tip retains its shape much better, and requires almost no attention
to it over its life unlike non layered tips.
 
the Lepro's i had came on the cues.they played well but were terrible to shape.they like fell apart..
 
cuejoey wrote:
> the Lepro's i had came on the cues. they played well
> but were terrible to shape. they like fell apart..


Yea, that's exactly what happens to my LePro's -- the leather kind of peels off. While my Triangle's are much more fine & consistent, and as hard... if not harder.

-- peer
 
LePro cuetips

There are lots of posts relative to tip prefererence and if one is mentioned that I haven't tried I make a point to do so at first opportunity. A tip I tried and seemed to play well to me is a Triumph tip. It comes with a red fiber back. For those who have tried them what are your impressions?
 
Peer said:
cuejoey wrote:
> the Lepro's i had came on the cues. they played well
> but were terrible to shape. they like fell apart..


Yea, that's exactly what happens to my LePro's -- the leather kind of peels off. While my Triangle's are much more fine & consistent, and as hard... if not harder.

-- peer
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I've had similar results with Le Pros vs. Triangles. I only play with Triangle now. the first thing I did with the last cue I bought was cut the tip off and install a triangle.

All in all, I'd say 1 good Le Pro type is about on par(although a bit softer) than a triangle.
 
I played with Le Pro's exclusively for about 15 years or so I'd guess, then I switched to Triangle because that's what came on my Southwest. I played with those for a few years but recently switched to the hard Moori (not sure what it's called, quick or something) because I couldn't find a triangle that I liked (I tried 3 that I didn't like). Now I like the Moori but to be honest, I don't think anything feels as good as a really good Le Pro, when you find one.

Alex
 
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