Preferred tip hardness

Which hardness do you play with?

  • EXTREMELY HARD

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • HARD

    Votes: 27 31.0%

  • MEDIUM

    Votes: 35 40.2%

  • SOFT

    Votes: 18 20.7%

  • SUPER SOFT

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Total voters
    87
nmh2008 said:
Anything less than hard and my girl won't let me hear the end of it
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Seriously?
We saw what she posted in that other thread.
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I’m a bit surprised there are so many other players who use hard tips. Most of my shafts have hard layered tips. Most brands play similarly except for Talisman Water Buffalo Hard and Zan Grip Hard, both of which seem a bit harder than the others. Also, I still like Triangles which I consider to be medium-hard.
 
I like the shooter's feedback on tips. I've used Dennis Searing tips for a few years now, but I'm not afraid of a Kamui or an Everest. Many years I used a plain LePro. Just as important as the tip.....the correct chalk. Tip has to be the same diameter as the ferrule, not a 13 mm tip on a 12.5 ferrule. In order to be happy with your tip, learn to install it yourself. People beg me to put tips on for them. I usually tell them to go commit a sexual act upon themselves.
 
Lepros or WB tips found some really nice ones.tried a couple hard laminated, and some moori mediums not very good for a $18 tip.as with most things its hit or miss.
 
I've played with a Kamui Black Soft for 15 years and just had a hard put on another shaft to test. Doesn't make any sense to me, but I really like it. I switch back to the soft and hate it. Trying a medium soon before I align both shafts with the same tip.
 
Pretty sure I started playing with a medium tip many years ago. Then moved to soft tips because that seemed to be what a lot of people where using and I didn't have the opportunity to do a lot of testing experimenting on my own as I don't have a good local tip person, unfortunately. Played with those for a good while and that carried into a transition to playing carbon shafts, most of which seem to come stock with soft tips.

Then I got my South West Satin with very firm Triangle tips on the shafts and I took it out to play a few times and I really like the firmer feel and feedback of playing with that cue and once I adjusted a bit I felt like I had better speed control for positional play.

That let me to wanting to try a firmer tip on my carbon shafts so I went with a Kamui black medium and have stuck with that across various carbon shafts now. Definitely prefer the medium over the soft.

Haven't tried a hard tip on my carbon shafts yet, may still at some point, but for now I voted medium.
 
I always used Kamui hard on my wood OB and 314 shafts. When I went to the Revo, it had a soft tip and I didn't hate it, but didn't love it, either. I switched to medium and it has just been ok. My tip had a blowout on Tuesday on the Revo, so I grabbed the 314 with a hard tip and couldn't believe how soft it felt. And I loved it. Not sure what tip to put on the Revo now.
 
I used to play with the softest tips I could find, but over the past 5 years I been gradually finding myself preferring harder and harder tips. The tip I have had on for the past year or so is an Ultraskin medium which I pressed a little bit in my vice before I installed it so it plays a little harder than ultraskins traditional medium tip (at least until it compresses naturally)
 
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