Single layer tip in between an Elkmaster and Triangle or Lepro?

[Zerksies]

I used them on my break cue for years.

I use to use them many years ago before layered tips became a thing. I would go though 5-6 tip installs just to find the right one. I'd maybe play it for a few minutes and hate it, Sometimes i would have it on for a few weeks before i pulled it off. When you found the right one they were great.

I'm using Kamui clears right now. They are consistent from tip to tip. The one i just put on feels exactly like the one i replaced it with. The key is consistency.

 

[Baby Huey]

Le Pro's are just inconsistent but once in awhile you get a good box and when you do they play great after a few mushrooming trims.

 

[Poolplaya9]

Pressed triangles are your best bet. or if your lucky you might get a nice one, straight out of the box.
Le pros, are more on the harder side. in my experience, a bit more consistent.

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

 

[Cue Alchemist]

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

I probably should of said, that has only been in the last couple years, the quality seems to have gotten better.
Before that, like you i didn't think much of them. You still have go through a few, before you will find a nice one.

Triangles, are much softer. in my opinion. Again i will go through a few, before i find one i like.
They last ages too. Anyone who is use to using these kind of tips. Knows what they are getting into.
There was a great thread on here a while back. All about these type of tips. Very enjoyable read.

 

[HawaiianEye]

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

I used to always use LePro tips and loved them.

I used them for decades.

I used to put on my own tips and I loved playing with a fresh LePro. I always picked the tallest tips and never cut them down shorter.

I had a box of old really good ones, but somebody stole my accessory bag in Hawaiian Brian's a few years ago and I have never found any new ones that were worth a damn.

In the last decade, or more, all of the newer ones I tried were crap.

 

[WildWing]

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

The reason that Triangles don't burnish that well on the sides is they are a partly chrome-tanned tip. They get both chrome and veg tan, the only tip I've heard of that gets both. Chromium results in a tip that is very good, but doesn't highly burnish on the sides.

Unlike your experience, I do get a bit of variation in the hardness of Triangles, from about medium to medium-hard, but if you have a good look at the tops, you can tell which it's going to be.

 

[Mensabum]

I use to use them many years ago before layered tips became a thing. I would go though 5-6 tip installs just to find the right one. I'd maybe play it for a few minutes and hate it, Sometimes i would have it on for a few weeks before i pulled it off. When you found the right one they were great.

I'm using Kamui clears right now. They are consistent from tip to tip. The one i just put on feels exactly like the one i replaced it with. The key is consistency.

Whatever works for you. One man's pleasure, another's pain, ya know??

 

[Mensabum]

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.

I don't recall ever having a problem w triangles. Still have several shafts with T's on 'em
I do have a few vintage shafts with 40 plus year old Triangles and they look great for their age. I've been half tempted to chalk one up, but haven't as of yet. I'm just curious as to how they would play. Like crap, bcuz they've gotten dry and hard over the years, or great, as the shape they still appear to be in?!?
Only the shadow knows.

 

[Mensabum]

I used to always use LePro tips and loved them.

I used them for decades.

I used to put on my own tips and I loved playing with a fresh LePro. I always picked the tallest tips and never cut them down shorter.

I had a box of old really good ones, but somebody stole my accessory bag in Hawaiian Brian's a few years ago and I have never found any new ones that were worth a damn.

In the last decade, or more, all of the newer ones I tried were crap.

I might still have that bag floating around somewhere. I'll send it back.

 

[MTfish]

I'll go ahead and throw in another recommendation for Pooldawg8's duds. I've been using them for over 10 years and I think they fall right into your parameters. They hold chalk as well as anything I've used, hold their shape as well as any single layered tip, and don't seem to pack down and glaze over as easily as most tips (even some of the expensive layered tips I let myself get talked into recently). I buy a bunch at a time, so not sure what he's charging right now, but they've always been an incredible value, IMO.

 

[jayman]

I would like to see Durometer testing on the elks tiangles and lepro tips of today vs the old ones. They seem to be much harder than they used to be.
I won't use the new Triangle or lepro's anymore because I get coplaints that they are like shooting with a break cue. I use Elks a lot though, they are nearly a perfect medium now.

 

[Mensabum]

I would like to see Durometer testing on the elks tiangles and lepro tips of today vs the old ones. They seem to be much harder than they used to be.
I won't use the new Triangle or lepro's anymore because I get coplaints that they are like shooting with a break cue. I use Elks a lot though, they are nearly a perfect medium now.

Is it my imagination, or are more players leaning towards softer tips on their CF shafts??
It's no secret they hit better with softer tips.