Mushroomed Tips

[kokopuffs]

Eat any buttons lately, hustler folk? Well, my LePro tip is well mushroomed and shoots just fine. As a matter of fact I won a 9-ball tournament last weekend using it. Hmmmm. You can have mushroom on your pizza. But I prefer mushrooms for winning.

 

[fast larry]

Eat any buttons lately, hustler folk? Well, my LePro tip is well mushroomed and shoots just fine. As a matter of fact I won a 9-ball tournament last weekend using it. Hmmmm. You can have mushroom on your pizza. But I prefer mushrooms for winning.

You and Bloomdahl should get together. Me, when a tip mushrooms, It drives me nuts. Put on a hard tip like a Talisman and that can't happen. Only cheap lousy tips mushroom, the goods ones that work, don't.

 

[jer9ball]

koko: I'm sure if you're a good shot, you can play with lesser equipment. But don't you find that after a while a mushroomed tip will eventually start to break at the edges? Once you have a chunk out of the edge of your tip, I think it will affect anyone's game. I used to use nothing but lepro tips for years. They work fine if you look after them right. There's just seems to be less maintenance on some other tips.

cheers,
jer9ball

 

[Andy Segal]

I use hard mauri and sometimes hard hercules tips. They are very good at keeping their shape. They do mushroom out with enough use, but once you fix them once, they never mushroom out again.

The worst tips you can use are the ones that come with the shaft. I don't know what kind of tips they use, but doing trick shots, I can tell you from personal experience that they crack quickly, especially with some of the extreme stroke shots that I do. When I order new shafts, I have a few shots that I try with them initially. Mike Massey's circular draw shot, the one pocket 3 rail draw shot from being frozen on the foot rail, and a couple of other stroke shots. Probably 1 out of 3 new tips crack and a little wedge pops out of them after about 5-10 shots. I think this may be due to the tips being dried out from sitting around in the warehouse. Maybe they are just cheap-o tips. In any event, any serious player should replace the tips almost immediately when they get new shafts. I always do this, and then have them cleaned up a couple weeks after to get any mushroom out that may have appeared.

Andy Segal

 

[pooljunkie4ever]

What kind of Talisman or anyother brand of tip compares to a Lepro. I have played with a Lepro forever and luv the feel but don't like the mushroom affect. I have notice there is a soft, hard and rock tips. If there are all the same material, how do they accomplish the different feel.