Solid vs layered tips

[MitchAlsup]

I have a $60 budget/night for drinks when I go to the pool hall.

Comparing that to the $30 it costs me to put on a new tip that last for 1.5-2.5 years, and the tip cost gets lost in the roundoff error.

 

[mikemosconi]

How long have you had the tip installed and play with it?
The benefits of layered tip are that they hold shape better, mushroom less and have a better consistency in feel.
you probably won't be able to tell the difference between newly installed layered tip and a newly installed solid tip with the same hardness.
With time, the difference is more noticeable but since we get used to things, you'll be able to noticed it more if you had two shafts with the two tips and you get to use them both over the same period of time.
Bottom line, layered tip needs less maintenance. It's not about the feel that much.

I have never, ever found any layered tip that mushrooms less than a solid triangle tip. Of course, there is a big difference in soft layered tips vs. hard layered tips- ALL soft layered tips mushroom from my own experience.

I think that a good Triangle tip requires the least maintenance out there, just from my own experience, but one would need to like a harder tip to use Triangle. I use the Triangle as a break tip- best that I have found overall. I actually like a softer playing tip and ultraskin medium ivories seem to be a nice compromise with less mushrooming than the softer versions of ultraskin.

 

[Cue Alchemist]

$20 for the tip and $20 for the install labor,crazy!

Oh ok thats more like it, you said $40 for the tip in your opening post. It is still nuts!

 

[Cue Alchemist]

Pool is thriving on tips alone apparently. Create a market.
Nice to see people playing pool supporting the game though.

The most expensive tip i seen, was at $45. Seems like there is a tip for every occasion!!
So many on the market now.

 

[philly]

The most expensive tip i seen, was at $45. Seems like there is a tip for every occasion!!
So many on the market now.

Amazing isn't it?
Marketing these days is wonderful.

 

[philly]

The golf 'gadget' market is a little over a BILLION a year. Hell if pool made 2% of that it would be colossal. The disposable $$ is out there just have to get cues in their hands.

When there's private poolrooms that require a membership fee and the use of a dining room goes towards your minimum we'll talk about it again.
Don't misunderstand, I know plenty of golfers that play pool and golf. There is a large segment of the golf world that belong to one of the thousands of private Country clubs in America that buy the newest driver every year.
The 30 years that I played golf was on the publinks.
How much is a round these days on a publinks? Been a while.

 

[Cue Alchemist]

Amazing isn't it?
Marketing these days is wonderful.

It is crazy good, its amazing the impact that carbon fibre has had, since 2018. Which started the demand for the next best thing you can buy, to go in line, with the expensive shafts, same with the chalks.
I dont remember, these kind of prices for tips, back then. Its no surprise, as you said that marketing has become king!

 

[philly]

It is crazy good, its amazing the impact that carbon fibre has had, since 2018. Which started the demand for the next best thing you can buy, to go in line, with the expensive shafts, same with the chalks.
I dont remember, these kind of prices for tips, back then. Its no surprise, as you said that marketing has become king!

Predator perfected it. Create a market and then market it. Like I say, great that there are people playing the game and supporting the game.
Sort of.