So many tips, so hard to decide on which one to try!

[Kim Bye]

I currently play with a soft ultraskin tip, the leather seems do dry our fairly quickly.
Many of the players at my local pool hall are raving about the new Kamui clear, so I`ll try that next time.
Finding a tip you like is a nightmare, there is just too much choice and there is also inconsistensies within a brand. Moori tips can be great, but i have had some shitty ones too.

 

[Rain-Man]

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It would be good if Tom (and other tip manufacturers) confirmed.

Confirm what? I actually thought your original statement about all the tips being made in the same factory was a joke, but now I think you were serious about it... No, they are NOT all made in the same factory, not even close. A lot of em are made halfway across the world from each other... . Tom posts ALL the time on AZ, just do a search all ye shall find the proof I guess your looking for (am I being punked here or something??)....

 

[Rain-Man]

I currently play with a soft ultraskin tip, the leather seems do dry our fairly quickly.
Many of the players at my local pool hall are raving about the new Kamui clear, so I`ll try that next time.
Finding a tip you like is a nightmare, there is just too much choice and there is also inconsistensies within a brand. Moori tips can be great, but i have had some shitty ones too.

If you like the regular Kamui tips (I do), you'll like the Kamui Clear tips. Same thing, just with a clear bottom layer on it. Makes the installation a little easier and more uniform from one installer to another by preventing the glue from wicking into the bottom layer unevenly, and creating 'hard' spots....

They do look kinda 'cool' too if your into that kinda thing...

 

[Spimp13]

I am thinking of changing out my black kamui soft tips because while I like the estimated softness of the hit, I don't like that the tip is completely flat and not shaped. I could be wrong, but I don't believe you can shape these layered tips like I could with a Moori Medium? Basically I am looking for a similar softness hit to the black kamui soft, but more shape to the tip. Thoughts? I may just have to go back to the Moori Mediums.

 

[staypuff578]

I picked up a Kamui clear super soft the other day, absolutely love it. First Kamui tip i've owned, and it's doing a hell of a job. The clear pad is Kinda cool to look at too.

 

[pt109]

I used French red-back Champions for years.
Then Ted Harris put an original Moori on my cue, and I loved it.

Well, I still got a bunch of original Mooris.....

....but Sniper is going the job for me now....
...it does everything I want a tip to do

 

[Doug]

Ok you have played pool ten years and you have palyed with a LePro and a Moori. LePro considered very average (blue collar) and Moori (upper echelon). If your game didn't improve a ball or more going from a $10 tip to a $40 tip you wasted your money unless you're 1-curious 2- want to fit in with the country club jet set. There are very few tips I haven't bought and tried and still have an assortment of them in my tip box. There is not one tip in my collection that improves my game. There are several I like better than others. On some of the cues I have there is no tip that I like better tham for example, a LePro but on a different cue the feel/hit is terrible and I like a Moori or Sniper. Bottom line: once you get a tip on your playing cue that is just perfect FOR YOU stay with it. If players start beating you that have never beat you before find out what tip they use and try it.

 

[osama]

In my opinion tips are mostly a "feeling" thing rather than actual make a difference thing. Some like it soft and others like it hard. try few, buy what you like and stick with it.


I play with Tiger Laminated soft tip. Yes, I'm the one! :thumbup:

 

[Rain-Man]

I am thinking of changing out my black kamui soft tips because while I like the estimated softness of the hit, I don't like that the tip is completely flat and not shaped. I could be wrong, but I don't believe you can shape these layered tips like I could with a Moori Medium? Basically I am looking for a similar softness hit to the black kamui soft, but more shape to the tip. Thoughts? I may just have to go back to the Moori Mediums.

Ok, I'll step out on a ledge here, but you are joking right? Of course you can shape a Kamui tip.... Here's a pic of a new Kamui Clear Black Soft and another pic of a Kamui Clear Original I just put on for a few guys yesterday.

 

[flyvirginiaguy]

I am thinking of changing out my black kamui soft tips because while I like the estimated softness of the hit, I don't like that the tip is completely flat and not shaped. I could be wrong, but I don't believe you can shape these layered tips like I could with a Moori Medium? Basically I am looking for a similar softness hit to the black kamui soft, but more shape to the tip. Thoughts? I may just have to go back to the Moori Mediums.

I really do not understand this post. You can shape a Kamui any way you can a Moori tip. The Moori is also a flat layered tip until you shape it.

I used the original Moori tips for many many years, the Kamui black mediums, that I have used the past couple years, do not mushroom like the Moori tips.

 

[pt109]

Ok, I'll step out on a ledge here, but you are joking right? Of course you can shape a Kamui tip.... Here's a pic of a new Kamui Clear Black Soft and another pic of a Kamui Clear Original I just put on for a few guys yesterday.

Good pics, RM
I've had tips installed only on a lathe since the middle 80s.....
...you can play your game right away, no breaking in required....
....and the tip lasts a helluva lot longer.

 

[Spimp13]

Easy boys, I made a mistake. I will try to get it shaped by someone as the person who put them on it did not shape it and I thought I read something due to the type of layered material that it was unshapable. I was wrong.

 

[RADAR]

I have played a lot of different tips over the years. I really like the Ultraskin mediums. I just ordered 10 of them.

i 2nd that medium for me on all my cues!

 

[Rain-Man]

Easy boys, I made a mistake. I will try to get it shaped by someone as the person who put them on it did not shape it and I thought I read something due to the type of layered material that it was unshapable. I was wrong.

They really put the tip on and didnt shape it at all for you? :scratchhead:

Its going to be a Bit@h trying to shape an unshaped Kamui Black with a hand tool...

 

[Houstoer]

Very nice job rain-man. I can tell you know what the hell you're doing. I recently had a kamui brown clear put on my shaft and after a couple weeks love it. The cue guy i use told me to try it. He said he likes it better than the black and I kind of agree with him. I use medium tips. As an experiment I tried G2, Black Heart, Ultra Skin and Kaumi Black. I orginally found the black heart to be the best on one of my shafts. G2 seemed a little dead for me; Ultra Skin I couldn't get any action on the cueball for some reason and the Kamui Black gave me a little too much action at times. So now I have a blackheart on one and kamui brown on the other and like them both. I can definetly put more on the cue with the blackheart but the kamui brown keeps me out of trouble

 

[SCCues]

Learn how to change tips yourself. That saves lots of money and you can try lots of different tips.

I have a cue lathe and I bought it so I could take care of my cues myself. Having my own lathe lets me try different tips and it's help me find the best feeling tip for me. I've tried a lot of different tips after they quit making Moori Slow tips trying to find the closest tip to the original Moori Slow tip. There are a lot of good tips on the market and you have find the one that feels the best to you.

 

[Spimp13]

They really put the tip on and didnt shape it at all for you? :scratchhead:

Its going to be a Bit@h trying to shape an unshaped Kamui Black with a hand tool...

That's not promising lol....heres a pic. It seems pretty damn flat to me. I've had this tip for about 4 years now. I took about 3 years off from pool so there is only about a year worth of shooting with it.

 

[Rain-Man]

Very nice job rain-man. I can tell you know what the hell you're doing. I recently had a kamui brown clear put on my shaft and after a couple weeks love it. The cue guy i use told me to try it. He said he likes it better than the black and I kind of agree with him. I use medium tips. As an experiment I tried G2, Black Heart, Ultra Skin and Kaumi Black. I orginally found the black heart to be the best on one of my shafts. G2 seemed a little dead for me; Ultra Skin I couldn't get any action on the cueball for some reason and the Kamui Black gave me a little too much action at times. So now I have a blackheart on one and kamui brown on the other and like them both. I can definetly put more on the cue with the blackheart but the kamui brown keeps me out of trouble

Thats pretty much the way I describe the difference between the Kamui Blacks and Originals (tans). The Black simply puts more spin on it, due to its elasticity, and some even find it to be too much. I know that may sound a little weird to some players, and I know people would say, "Too much spin?!? Theres never too much for me!". But its true, and it does take a little time adjusting to using one. My general rule of thumb for people using one for the first time is to use about half of what you normally would use on a given shot (as far as english goes). If the shot would normally be a full tip of english, use a half a tip instead to get the same desired result as a full tip.... The Original Kamui is a bit more forgiving (IMO). It gives a little more forgiveness to your off mark hits.. I assume thats what you mean by 'keeping you out of trouble'..

 

[Rain-Man]

That's not promising lol....heres a pic. It seems pretty damn flat to me. I've had this tip for about 4 years now. I took about 3 years off from pool so there is only about a year worth of shooting with it.

Wow, thats one flat tip, lol.. Its really funny that were talking about this over the last few days, because I just had a guy come in this afternoon looking for someone to shape his Black Kamui tip that was installed on a shaft he got for xmas. It was installed by the company he got the shaft from, and it looks very similar to yours, but yours is still flatter. Its the first pic below, then a pic of it after I shaped it up for him to a dime radius.

 

[Spimp13]

Yeah, I don't miscue very often, and I think it's probably more mental than fundamental...I just think that if the tip was you know normal (shaped) that it would only benefit my game by at least a ball. So I probably shouldn't do this myself is what you are saying lol...FK! I have an 8 ball tournament I am supposed to play and place high a week from this weekend.