Sometimes old school is still king

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mistamikel

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I've been playing with a Lucasi for the last year or so, standard shaft with a Triangle tip.
Broke the shaft last month and was trying to find a replacement without breaking the bank. No luck, so I broke down, sold some stuff and decided to buy a whole new cue.
Ended up with a Poison Strychnine 3 , 2 Venum2 shafts. I've always wanted to try an LD shaft but just never could come to spending $200-300 for a shaft. Well I got the cue last week and was having a ***** of a time with "getting to know" it. Was off like hell on my cuts and banks, missing straight shots lol. So after getting pissed off to the moon and back I thought why not try a new tip. Thought I had a Mori slow in my bag, nope. I did have an Elk Master. Now I haven't used an Elk in years, put it on and holy blue shit!! It was night and day!! To me, that Sarin tip was the worst tip I've ever used, with the Elk I was back on. Cuts, banks, full table draws (for fun :) )
It just goes to show, sometimes an old school piece of technology is still better than what's "new and improved"
Just my 2 cents :smile:
 
As long as you get "good ones" you cant beat Triangles, LePro's, and Elk Masters imo... The original Mori's were good too...
 
skins said:
As long as you get "good ones" you cant beat Triangles, LePro's, and Elk Masters imo... The original Mori's were good too...
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Agree, and with a low deflection shaft, sometimes it's better to dampen the spin a bit with the single layer tips skins mentioned above. I would say Triangles are good now, and Lepros, especially if you can still find some from the 70s and 80s.
 
I love the hit on lepros
I just don't want o deal with the deformation that happens so quick on them

Currently using my first Hercules medium
And im diggin it
No chalk left on the ball after about 8 hrs of total play
 
I bought a new Samsara cue and triangle comes standard on them. I was skeptical about the triangle but now I would not use any other tip. I have tried black heart, Mori, everest but non compare to the triangle.
 
triangle........always has, always been....especially if you press them a little prior they hold shape wonderfully....oh an buy them in 15mm.....they are denser
 
Press them? Do you put them in a vice? For how long and how do you know if you are squeezing them too much? I'm not sure but I think they only come in one grade and that is medium hard but I could be wrong on that. Seems like pressing them could make them very hard. Someone said they are good "as long as you get good ones" but how do you tell that? Why are the denser tips better?
 
some high end billiard products these days are like beats earphones, way overpriced and people are willing to pay extra for a logo :confused:
 
I've always used elks. Snooker, pool, what ever. When you get a good one they're unbeatable IMO, nothing comes close. I just don't like how soft they feel so I cut about 2/3 off before I install them. It can get fairly pricey. A new tip a month, and when you consider you may have 2 or 3 good tips in a box of 250 it ends up costing more than the higher priced tips out their... But they're worth it.
 
Maybe it's just Tiger tips that I can't play with lol.
I remember a few years ago when the launched there Emerald tips, I bought a couple as they where $4 at the time, tired one, freaking HATED it. A month later I said to myself, maybe it was a bad one, tried the other and it was worse than the first one lol.
I do like Kamui black (soft) but there $30 (Canadian here) a tip.
I'll take the Elk Master for $1.50 :D
 
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