Tip height?

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racer rx

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I guess the trend these days are layered tips, and I have seen so many of them being so tall.

I personally like the feel of a thinner tip, I do have to use more stroke to get the cueball around the table, but I prefer the hit that I get with a thinner tip, it gives me much more feedback in the back arm.

I am thinking that I going to non-layered tips, cause I am not using the 10 or 11 layers as they come. What is the proper tip height for Layered tips?
 
... there's nothing stopping you from cutting off a couple of layers after intall before doming the tip. (This is what most ppl do). I usually leave the tip height half the diameter of the ferrule after install. (In my case ferrule = 12.6mm so I leave the height at ~6.3mm from the top of the dome to the ferrule after install)
 
racer rx said:
I guess the trend these days are layered tips, and I have seen so many of them being so tall.

I personally like the feel of a thinner tip, I do have to use more stroke to get the cueball around the table, but I prefer the hit that I get with a thinner tip, it gives me much more feedback in the back arm.

I am thinking that I going to non-layered tips, cause I am not using the 10 or 11 layers as they come. What is the proper tip height for Layered tips?
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I personally like the feel of a thinner tip.
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Mine is something around 6-7mm, don't like the high, but who cares. It's not like you will miss a shot when you are heaving a high tip. Just play with it, if you want to save some money.
 
Is there something in the water, up there in Toronto? :rolleyes: Thick tips do not delaminate any more often than thin tips...layered or not (just as even a cuemaker cannot tell if a LePro tip will mushroom or not, simply by looking at it...you have to put it on a cue and play with it). It is merely a preference that some players have, to play with a thinner tip. Miscues are caused by a poor stroke, not how thick the tip is.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Klopek said:
When layered tips are left too high they can delaminate.

I also believe taller tips have more shear and are therefore more prone to miscues.
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Scott Lee said:
Is there something in the water, up there in Toronto? :rolleyes: Thick tips do not delaminate any more often than thin tips...layered or not (just as even a cuemaker cannot tell if a LePro tip will mushroom or not, simply by looking at it...you have to put it on a cue and play with it). It is merely a preference that some players have, to play with a thinner tip. Miscues are caused by a poor stroke, not how thick the tip is.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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First, Thank you Scott!!
I prefer a nice thick new tip, new tires, and new shoes.
unfortunatly, all i can afford is a new tip.:(

Jayman.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
I personally like the feel of a thinner tip.
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A lot of the pro players use thin tips. I've noticed this a lot at tournaments and on Accu-stats videos.....

James
 
Seems to me like tips go through three stage transition...(moori tips)

I had been using a Medium...When first put on and are tall they play a bit songy, then when they break in a bit they firm up and play just right...It seems to be short lived as very quickly they get too short and turn into a brick on the end of your cue.

I like the tip to be shorter, but I don't like it when it turns into a brick.

Too offset that brick effect...(since I like a short tip)...I have switched to a Moori Slow...The shorter they get the better they get...(too me anyway)
 
Fatboy said:
its like a condom the thinner the better.:eek:
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lololol how does that one not get any attention?

to stay on topic I don't think there is a proper tip height, I'd imagine most people, like me, just use them how they get them because having them cut shorter would mean spending more money on tips... and pool players are broke/cheap :)
 
AZE said:
lololol how does that one not get any attention?

to stay on topic I don't think there is a proper tip height, I'd imagine most people, like me, just use them how they get them because having them cut shorter would mean spending more money on tips... and pool players are broke/cheap :)
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Funny that you insult pool players as being broke/cheap when you are trying to sell them cheap business cards!!

LOL
 
av84fun said:
Funny that you insult pool players as being broke/cheap when you are trying to sell them cheap business cards!!

LOL
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funny?......
 
av84fun said:
Funny that you insult pool players as being broke/cheap when you are trying to sell them cheap business cards!!

LOL
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Sounds personal. :eek:

BVal
 
av84fun said:
Yes, AZE's post was personal in that it insulted pool players as a group and therefore individually.

Thanks for your agreement.

Regards,
Jim
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I actually wasn't agreeing with you. If you read his post he includes himself in the group of pool players. I didn't take it as an insult or personally- I took it as an opinion which is was what it was. Not necissarily wrong either. There are a lot more broke or cheap pool players than not. I am one of the broke ones. :)
So just to clear things up. I meant that your post sounded like a personal attack at him. imo.

BVal
 
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AZE said:
funny?......
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Yes...pick one:

1 a: affording light mirth and laughter : amusing b: seeking or intended to amuse : facetious
2: differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way : peculiar

I would also suggest your remark was ironic. You can look that one up by yourself.

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