NEW Bulletproof Synthetic Playing Tips.

[Nealgl1985]

Even the break tips play great. I liked the hit of the red medium, but I noticed it was harder to get good English so ill be trying the green hard in the next week. I've played at least 15 racks with my bk rush w/ the break tip and the tip plays great. I can chalk up once a rack and be good that's how well the break tips hold chalk.

 

[Mensabum]

What brand of glue is the 2P-10?

I started using the 2P-10 several months ago with activator spray. Haven't had any issues with tips coming off since. Cures out so fast that way you can work it in 5 mins!!!
Just spray one surface and apply glue to the other. Press together for 30 seconds, let sit for a few minutes and shape. This was recommended to me by Robert @ Bulletproof.
Got my vote all day.

 

[Mensabum]

Can these tips be cut by hand? I don't have a lathe all my tips i've done by hand with a knife

Absolutely. Time involved depends on tip hardness. I do all mine by hand. Always have.

 

[Mensabum]

Super happy with these tips, and staff at Bulletproof. I tried a Medium, but after only a week, I missed that green hard unit.

Anyone that has hit with the green are impressed with the performance....most however do not like the hardness. I had the same initial reaction. Change is possible even at 65.

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Revo w Recoil.
Rhino w factory tip (for now lol)
Still living on the edge....no silencer pad.

I put green on all 3 playing shafts and the clear on my breaker. These will outlast me. I scuff mine with that shaper looks kinda like a tuning fork. Quarter/dime with round sandpaper discs. Run it over that hard tip often and I haven't seen reduction in size yet!! Masters chalk after every shot. Part of the ol' PSR, dontchaknow.

 

[Mensabum]

Have been thoroughly enjoying playing with the green guy on a no-name CF shaft. One of the mediums popped off a bit back, so I tried Loctite Super Glue Power Flex Control for the hell of it (I normally use their Gel Control) and it's holding well

Perhaps these tips don't generate as much english as finer counterparts, but as a compulsive shaping and scuffing junkie who tends to hit the ball too hard anyways, the benefits of the resilient shape and consistent striking has me happy.

It's pretty damn difficult to scuff these well eh? I was trying out a pumice stone and some other weird objects. Settled on taking a tapper tool and gripping it quite firmly in the hand like a hammer and performing firm, short, and directionally kaleidoscopic scrapes amongst the dome.

Cheers. Waiting for the "Extra Hard" boys. I'll pay extra if it's purple

Put me on the bus!! I'd hit w a rock if I could get it to hold chalk!!
No probs getting all the spin I want w green. Nice consistent hit, even when getting way out there, like over a rail or extreme spin, grabs the cue ball well. Doesn't slip or miscue like other tips when they glaze over. I realize much of this has to do with your stroke, but these are some damn fine tips, irregardless. Just my 2¢.

 

[RickLafayette]

I bought the pick style scuffer from you and the picks work OK (on my medium red) but it takes a while to get the surface where I like it. I'll be watching for your dedicated scuffer and get one as soon as it's available.

I was going to try the green again but I'm so happy with the red medium I'm even using it to break 8 and 9 ball racks. I temporarily retired my BK Rush.
My shop is a little too cold right now to work with my lathe but as soon as it warms up I think I'm going to try the grey prototype. (Shhhhhh)

I think I'm sticking with the red medium. I haven't lost a match yet. I got a brand new Last 4 Ever tip tool (my other was old and worn) and have been rolling it over the tip while pressing down hard and this has been working really well. I'm using V10 chalk and it stays on until I wipe it off to put it in the case. My original tip shape with this tip was between a nickel and a dime, and it hasn't changed yet. The trick is to press in the "scuffed" surface instead of actually scuffing the surface. Either way that tip will outlast dozens of leather tips.

 

[dd0ck]

Just got the Bulletproof carbon fiber shaft with a red recoil tip in the mail this week. I really love the shaft, and wish I had ordered one earlier. Everything Bulletproof product has exceeded my expectations. Great stuff.

I’ve put in a ton of hours and the tip is holding up great. Chalk retention has been really great, a lot better than the tip that I had installed by a local repair guy.

@Bulletproof Billiards, what was used to shape and scuff the tip in the install?

I’d love to use that the same thing when it comes time to maintin this tip—really just want to maintain the same texture it has now, because it plays perfectly.

 

[boogieman]

Just got the Bulletproof carbon fiber shaft with a red recoil tip in the mail this week. I really love the shaft, and wish I had ordered one earlier. Everything Bulletproof product has exceeded my expectations. Great stuff.

I’ve put in a ton of hours and the tip is holding up great. Chalk retention has been really great, a lot better than the tip that I had installed by a local repair guy.

@Bulletproof Billiards, what was used to shape and scuff the tip in the install?

I’d love to use that the same thing when it comes time to maintin this tip—really just want to maintain the same texture it has now, because it plays perfectly.

I use an old Kamui gator grip. It works well. They sell knockoffs/different brands of the stuff that work just as well. With the gator grip type tool your goal is to just lightly lift the fibers/clear the old chalk out. Don't grind the tip away, just kind of lift/scuff the surface.

 

[Rocket354]

Inspired by this thread (and a few others) I decided to take the plunge and install a Recoil hard tip to try out.

TLDR: I love it! I think I've found my new playing tip.

Full version: I prefer hard tips. I've played with Triangles for 12+ years now. I don't know if it's the quality that's gone down or just my patience, but recently I feel like I've gotten more tips that mushroom multiple times to almost comedic proportions, and more tips that flatten out and need to be reshaped/scuffed on a weekly basis, and more flat-out duds. Suffice to say, I was the perfect target for the Recoil's advertising claims.

I was able to try a buddy's red medium Recoil for a few minutes and my first impression was that the hit felt a touch....rubbery almost. It instantly made me skeptical. I played a little while more and kinda got used to it, but I decided it wasn't the tip for me. However, the allure of a tip that is more consistent and needs no reshaping and will last a really long time was always in the back of my mind. And, of course, the reason I like hard tips is I don't like to feel like I'm shooting a cue with little pillows on the end. Would, then, the hard be a better fit for me than the medium?

So when the Triangle on one of my shafts decided to fray and mushroom for the umpteenth time I bit the, er, bullet and ordered two green hards. Earlier this week I had one of them installed by the guy at my local pool hall, replacing the dud Triangle. I immediately got to playing.

My first impression: this tip feels almost as hard as a break tip. It also has a definite plink sound to it. And on harder hits, the sound is closer to a crack. But the sound is not as loud as a break cue; it is definitely much more subdued. I found the tip holds chalk very well and when my first shot resulted in me over-drawing the cue ball right into the side pocket I knew I could do whatever I did with my leather tips.

This tip really works as well as any leather tip I've ever tried. I can do any shot with any english just like with a leather tip. I played for hours and actually felt more confident in my game because unlike any new leather tip, this one looked and played exactly the same as when it was installed. It still had the perfect dime-radius rounded top with absolutely no flattening or mushrooming. I'm no longer concerned with having to reshape or rescuff to avoid miscues; I'm no longer peeking at it mid-match to determine if the ticking time bomb of my tip might sabotage me at any moment. I have that mental space back. Just like carbon fiber shafts simplified the maintenance and care of shafts, this tip really simplifies the maintenance and care of tips.

I had kept my other shaft with the good (for now) Triangle, but as soon as I get a chance I'll have my guy install the other green tip on that shaft. I am a convert.

*Note: I received no compensation for this review nor have I ever communicated in any way with anyone from Bulletproof Billiards. I paid for both tips out of my own pocket, while full of trepidation for what might be more wasted money on another snake oil product. But these tips are legit.

 

[SSP]

Inspired by this thread (and a few others) I decided to take the plunge and install a Recoil hard tip to try out.

TLDR: I love it! I think I've found my new playing tip.

Full version: I prefer hard tips. I've played with Triangles for 12+ years now. I don't know if it's the quality that's gone down or just my patience, but recently I feel like I've gotten more tips that mushroom multiple times to almost comedic proportions, and more tips that flatten out and need to be reshaped/scuffed on a weekly basis, and more flat-out duds. Suffice to say, I was the perfect target for the Recoil's advertising claims.

I was able to try a buddy's red medium Recoil for a few minutes and my first impression was that the hit felt a touch....rubbery almost. It instantly made me skeptical. I played a little while more and kinda got used to it, but I decided it wasn't the tip for me. However, the allure of a tip that is more consistent and needs no reshaping and will last a really long time was always in the back of my mind. And, of course, the reason I like hard tips is I don't like to feel like I'm shooting a cue with little pillows on the end. Would, then, the hard be a better fit for me than the medium?

So when the Triangle on one of my shafts decided to fray and mushroom for the umpteenth time I bit the, er, bullet and ordered two green hards. Earlier this week I had one of them installed on the shaft replacing the dud Triangle by the guy at my local pool hall. I immediately got to playing.

My first impression: this tip feels almost as hard as a break tip. It also has a definite plink sound to it. And on harder hits, the sound is closer to a crack. But the sound is not as loud as a break cue; it is definitely much more subdued. I found the tip holds chalk very well and when my first shot resulted in me over-drawing the cue ball right into the side pocket I knew I could do whatever I did with my leather tips.

This tip really works as well as any leather tip I've ever tried. I can do any shot with any english just like with a leather tip. I played for hours and actually felt more confident in my game because unlike any new leather tip, this one looks and plays exactly the same as when it was installed. It still has the perfect dime-radius rounded top with absolutely no flattening or mushrooming. I'm no longer concerned with having to reshape or rescuff to avoid miscues; I'm no longer peaking at it mid-match to determine if the ticking time bomb of my tip might sabotage me at any moment. I have that mental space back. Just like carbon fiber shafts simplified the maintenance and care of shafts, this tip really simplifies the maintenance and care of tips.

I had kept my other shaft with the good (for now) Triangle, but as soon as I get a chance I'll have my guy install the other green tip on that shaft. I am a convert.

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*Note: I received no compensation for this review nor have I ever communicated in any way with anyone from Bulletproof Billiards. I paid for both tips out of my own pocket, and full of trepidation for what might be more wasted money on another snake oil product. But these tips are legit.

I had the same experience, I have been using the Recoil Green since April on my new Becue Prime II shaft, couple of things I tried that really worked for me is when chalking just swipe the chalk in one direction on the tip, I found I need less chalk and don't need to chalk on every shot, and the best scuffer I have used is believe it or not is the Sandman shaper, I just drag it across the tip like I would drag it across the head of my rooster if you know what I mean, it doesn't remove any measurable tip material, move the tool slow and apply no pressure, the weight of the tool is enough, hope this helps, I have these tips on 3 different shafts, I love the consistency of them, best tip I have ever owned, I don't work for Bulletproof, I have tried at least 20 different tips in my lifetime and played all of them for awhile before moving on to another, I have no plan for moving on from the Bulletproof Recoil.

 

[b3p]

I had the same experience, I have been using the Recoil Green since April on my new Becue Prime II shaft, couple of things I tried that really worked for me is when chalking just swipe the chalk in one direction on the tip, I found I need less chalk and don't need to chalk on every shot, and the best scuffer I have used is believe it or not is the Sandman shaper, I just drag it across the tip like I would drag it across the head of my rooster if you know what I mean, it doesn't remove any measurable tip material, move the tool slow and apply no pressure, the weight of the tool is enough, hope this helps, I have these tips on 3 different shafts, I love the consistency of them, best tip I have ever owned, I don't work for Bulletproof, I have tried at least 20 different tips in my lifetime and played all of them for awhile before moving on to another, I have no plan for moving on from the Bulletproof Recoil.

Do you know about what grit # the gritty surface is on your Sandman Shaper? I ask because I've also been maining a hard recoil for the last few months, and occasionally it will smooth out on me and I have to haphazardly scrape it with a flat tapper tool surface + poke it with the spikes on the tool as recommended by Bulletproof (I think.. correct me if wrong please)

I know they said they were working on a shape/scuffer for these tips, but it'd have to be pretty damn good to justify purchasing on top of a $30 tip.

 

[TipWilson]

For scuffing, the Willards tip tool works great on my green Recoil tip.

Minimal spinning or shaping. Just light scuffing to rough it up.

 

[SSP]

Do you know about what grit # the gritty surface is on your Sandman Shaper? I ask because I've also been maining a hard recoil for the last few months, and occasionally it will smooth out on me and I have to haphazardly scrape it with a flat tapper tool surface + poke it with the spikes on the tool as recommended by Bulletproof (I think.. correct me if wrong please)

I know they said they were working on a shape/scuffer for these tips, but it'd have to be pretty damn good to justify purchasing on top of a $30 tip.

Do you know about what grit # the gritty surface is on your Sandman Shaper? I ask because I've also been maining a hard recoil for the last few months, and occasionally it will smooth out on me and I have to haphazardly scrape it with a flat tapper tool surface + poke it with the spikes on the tool as recommended by Bulletproof (I think.. correct me if wrong please)

I know they said they were working on a shape/scuffer for these tips, but it'd have to be pretty damn good to justify purchasing on top of a $30 tip.

 

[SSP]

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I know they say this is a coarse shaper and it is but if you slowly drag this across the tip with no pressure on the tool while spinning the shaft by hand for 15 to 30 seconds you find no measurable tip material removed and the tip will hold chalk like you won't believe, I'm using TAOM V 10 chalk, I have found swiping the chalk in one direction really helps too, I have no scientific proof but I have found I chalk and scuff even less .

 

[SeniorTom]

I have the Bulletproof soft, and I have only good things to say about it. I don't get any mushrooming, nor miscues, and it seems very resilient. I think the biggest thing with pool players is it's hard to trust something new like this. Although, the cost of it was just the shipping charge, as it was free from Bulletproof otherwise.

 

[SimpleParty]

Been lurking in this thread for a while and I finally got the green hard tip installed on my new Rhino CF shaft when I upgraded the ferrule to a Tomahawk vault plate and I gotta say I'm loving the tip so far!

The tink noise doesn't bother me at all, in fact I hardly notice and in general I would say that I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the recoil and a leather tip of comparable hardness. It has pretty good grip on the CB and folks weren't exaggerating about how well it keeps chalk on, I use Magic Chalk so I don't usually chalk on every shot but with the new tip I'd maybe once or twice during a rack, I feel no issue with normal or moderately full spin shots without chalking up, but I do rechalk for extreme power shots of course just in case.

I definitely feel the increase in power delivery on softer to medium shots compared to a well broken in and compressed Ultraskin Black Medium that's been my choice for a while, but for power draw I haven't noticed much difference but I'm putting that down to technique. I did do a side by side comparison with my spare maple shaft and I know it's not exactly apples to apples, but I was able to draw the CB back from the head string to the OB just outside the corner pocket back to the head rail vs a bit past the side pocket on my maple shaft with the leather tip.

When it came to miscues, probably will need to figure the best way to scuff and roughen the tip for now, but pretty on par with my usual leather tips, using a last4ever tip tool to scuff it, so not super ultra grippy but I do use a fair bit of extreme side when I play.

I have used it to break a few times and I gotta say for 9ball I'd be hard pressed to say if I like breaking with my players now vs my breaker, though that's using a racking template and I've already pretty excellent control on the break, got the hammerhead v2 tip on it, though I might stick to my breaker for 10ball and traingle racks

 

[SSP]

Been lurking in this thread for a while and I finally got the green hard tip installed on my new Rhino CF shaft when I upgraded the ferrule to a Tomahawk vault plate and I gotta say I'm loving the tip so far!

The tink noise doesn't bother me at all, in fact I hardly notice and in general I would say that I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the recoil and a leather tip of comparable hardness. It has pretty good grip on the CB and folks weren't exaggerating about how well it keeps chalk on, I use Magic Chalk so I don't usually chalk on every shot but with the new tip I'd maybe once or twice during a rack, I feel no issue with normal or moderately full spin shots without chalking up, but I do rechalk for extreme power shots of course just in case.

I definitely feel the increase in power delivery on softer to medium shots compared to a well broken in and compressed Ultraskin Black Medium that's been my choice for a while, but for power draw I haven't noticed much difference but I'm putting that down to technique. I did do a side by side comparison with my spare maple shaft and I know it's not exactly apples to apples, but I was able to draw the CB back from the head string to the OB just outside the corner pocket back to the head rail vs a bit past the side pocket on my maple shaft with the leather tip.

When it came to miscues, probably will need to figure the best way to scuff and roughen the tip for now, but pretty on par with my usual leather tips, using a last4ever tip tool to scuff it, so not super ultra grippy but I do use a fair bit of extreme side when I play.

I have used it to break a few times and I gotta say for 9ball I'd be hard pressed to say if I like breaking with my players now vs my breaker, though that's using a racking template and I've already pretty excellent control on the break, got the hammerhead v2 tip on it, though I might stick to my breaker for 10ball and traingle racks

Been using the same tip since March of this year, I'm using the green tip, the best tool I've found for roughing up the tip is the Sandman shaper, got mine from Pool Dawg, just drag the tool across the tip with no pressure while spinning the shaft with your hand for 15 to 30 seconds, takes nothing off the tip and the tip will hold chalk like a sponge, one of the best $17 investments for a tip tool I've made.

 

[cueball2010]

Any discount codes on these tips currently?