I just had one installed on a brand new Gary Johnson custom cue and I have to say.......I'm thrilled with it.
I've only shot with it for a few weeks, but it feels different than any other brand I've tried before. It even has a different sound, but since this is on a brand new custom cue.....I don't know if it's the tip, the cue or simply a combo of both. It has a pleasant "plink" to it.
It's almost as if it looks like a medium, but hits like a hard. It absorbs chalk very well. I put a nice coat of Kamui .98 for a base and then just lightly add Master as I play.
I keep to my shot routine by grabbing the chalk before every shot, but I've trained myself to more or less go thru the motions. As in, I've successfully conned myself into thinking that I'm consistently chalking, but I'm really adding no more than a memory of Master at a time.
At the end of a game, it looks almost as if I've just chalked and the tip is no worse for wear. No miscues at all.....yet (as we all know it happens to the best of us).
It's a layered tip and I THINK it's ever, ever, ever so slightly mushroomed a hair in these few weeks, but I tend to bang the balls around when I first get a tip, so that I can let it "settle".
As is, I'd have no problems playing with it like it is till the day it wears out. If it 'shrooms out any more......well, I'll have it shaved down and go from there. It's just at one of those points where I'm not totally sure that's done anything at all, as it could be my imagination, since I'm "looking for it" to do something.
Anyway......as I said above, it seems to hit great and I'm very pleased with it.
I don't have tons of experience with other brands, but to let you know, in my "career", I've hit with:
an unknown "French" tip from my 1st installer about 20 years ago
Emerald
Sniper
Kamui Medium
........and now Onyx.
What do you other Onyx users say?
I've only shot with it for a few weeks, but it feels different than any other brand I've tried before. It even has a different sound, but since this is on a brand new custom cue.....I don't know if it's the tip, the cue or simply a combo of both. It has a pleasant "plink" to it.
It's almost as if it looks like a medium, but hits like a hard. It absorbs chalk very well. I put a nice coat of Kamui .98 for a base and then just lightly add Master as I play.
I keep to my shot routine by grabbing the chalk before every shot, but I've trained myself to more or less go thru the motions. As in, I've successfully conned myself into thinking that I'm consistently chalking, but I'm really adding no more than a memory of Master at a time.
At the end of a game, it looks almost as if I've just chalked and the tip is no worse for wear. No miscues at all.....yet (as we all know it happens to the best of us).
It's a layered tip and I THINK it's ever, ever, ever so slightly mushroomed a hair in these few weeks, but I tend to bang the balls around when I first get a tip, so that I can let it "settle".
As is, I'd have no problems playing with it like it is till the day it wears out. If it 'shrooms out any more......well, I'll have it shaved down and go from there. It's just at one of those points where I'm not totally sure that's done anything at all, as it could be my imagination, since I'm "looking for it" to do something.
Anyway......as I said above, it seems to hit great and I'm very pleased with it.
I don't have tons of experience with other brands, but to let you know, in my "career", I've hit with:
an unknown "French" tip from my 1st installer about 20 years ago
Emerald
Sniper
Kamui Medium
........and now Onyx.
What do you other Onyx users say?
