Two eras ago, the pros, which tip did they use?

measureman said:
I started playing pool in 1961 in a hot bed of rooms in the N.J./N.Y. area.
I dont remember anyone ever talking about tips.
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I started at the same time in Texas. We didn’t ruminate about tips, cues, cloth, balls and cases. We played pool with house cues and then inexpensive two piece cues. We didn’t spend a lot of time pissing and moaning about equipment. We were just happy to get to play at 10¢ a rack.
 
Oh, one more thing - a good piece of leather to burnish the side of my tip after I wet it. I could use a matchbook cover if necessary to do the same thing.[/QUOTE]

Jay,
.....brings back memories. Sometimes burnished the side with a folded dollar bill instead of the matchbook cover. :thumbup:
Will Prout
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I started at the same time in Texas. We didn’t ruminate about tips, cues, cloth, balls and cases. We played pool with house cues and then inexpensive two piece cues. We didn’t spend a lot of time pissing and moaning about equipment. We were just happy to get to play at 10¢ a rack.
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The house cues almost all had Elkmaster tips, which were fine. I carried a tip tool in my pocket to rough them up and I was ready to go. Of course I had to find the right house cue. Once I did I would hide that cue somewhere so no one else could play with it. A water closet or storeroom was a good hiding place, if the houseman wouldn't put it behind the counter for me. Usually a couple of bucks was enough to get his co-operation. :wink:
 
there were more guys running around 50 or 100 plus balls every day than you could shake the house cue with a flat tip they were shooting with.
it isnt the equipment its the player folks.

not long ago i tried an experiment i took one of my house cues and flattened the tip. shot with it about a week and after only about an hour or so shot my full speed as far as i can tell. of course i was also more deliberate and that always helps.
 
I find there’s a lot of subjective information about Tips. We are often comparing apples and oranges. I’ve use the same Snooker cue and package of 25 tips for 14 years. I still have a few tips left in the package (Triangle).

I’m never too sure how people can compare tips and cues unless they have used the same cue with the same tip for at least a few months. I understand that someone might replace a tip with another brand and have a concept to compare them. However, the old tip might be six months old and the new one fresh. How would that new tip feel after six months of wear and six months of getting used to it? Professional snooker players only change their tip a couple weeks minimum before a tournament even if the same brand. They will only change cues at the end of the season...even then only after a decade or so.

Anyways, a cue and tip is like a baseball glove. Any new glove will feel a bit awkward until it’s broken in and you are used to it. People who give advice about a ‘lot’ of cue brands or tip brands likely don’t have a first hand lengthy experience with them. I can only comment on Triangle tips.

I once went to a Pool workshop. There was a cue with screw on ferrules. A half dozen or so ferrules with different tips. So you try one with the cue then take the ferrule off and screw on a different tip and do the same shot. The tip I preferred was similar to the one on my own cue....likely because it was what I was used to and not because it was a better tip.

So best tip. Old Single layer .’Triangle’. Maybe 50 pence each....but only best for me.
 
The Champion tips were best I ever used back when I was moving around. Le Pro were hard as rocks and with me liking to spin the rock some what, miss cues could be and were costly at times. Noticed that some stated the backings were a problem coming off. I remember a problem with that also,,but to add I used these tips over a 10 year time frame , and never had a problem with them until the early 80's. I always replaced my own tips and when playing everyday , whether 6 to 8 hours in practice or out on the road in action , tips wear down quickly and one had to take care of his equipment. I never used a lathe to install a tip, so heat generated wasn't the cause of the backings failing on the Champion's I witnessed. The last box I bought of those tips were so bad I carefully cut the backings off, then installed the backing to the shaft of my cue, and let it dry over night, then installed the tip to the backing. I do the same thing now, except I purchase the backing separately. I wish those tips were still available.
 
garczar said:
Ouch. That hurts just thinking about it. Those would be "Cue Snips". Yow.
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He never revealed his material or where it came from but he guaranteed it wasn't pigskin. He said he gave up the business after a record cold winter made his inventory shrink.
 
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