WB tips

[Mensabum]

I've always used LePro but something interesting is occurring with the leather.
I am now using a smaller diameter shaft, much stiffer and still using lepros.
This isn't gonna work.
Just realized it last week.
?????
I have a big swing, usually 2 maybe three times I'll have to retrim/burnish before the next tip goes on.
Now I'm doing it more and squish is more.
Smaller leather area, more Focal point force, I realize now, I have to find a good layered tip.
A tip that will hold it's structure.
Because the cue is Stiffer and the shaft is smaller, the LePros become beat up and the fibre structure breaks down 1/2 way thru their life.
I can't imagine a lepro tip....holding up very long with a 12.5 carbon fiber shaft and a Shaw swing.

Use a single layer tip that has been compressed and soaked.

 

[Mensabum]

I like triangles too.they are very nice tips.they are a lot like elkmasters, in that, you have to search, to find the good ones in a box.or you get lucky buying a batch of them.
Stay away from the grayish colored ones.The darker the better.

I soak and compress a few. Still experimenting w times and pressures, but the outcome looks good. I won't be selling anything and I'm not hawking any particular tip.
Disclaimer included.

 

[Island Drive]

Any structure, like layered 3/4'' plywood, comparing that to a 9 layered tip it holds up under stress.
Non layered tips need maintenance as they flare out with a player that has a swing like Kaci, Shaw etc, these guys can draw their ball 12-16 feet, Bergman also uses Zan layered medium tip.... layered is structurally a must until I can be proven wrong.
Bad miscue on a layered tip, tip can be attended to, bad miscue on single layered tips, in my past it blows out the side and needs replacement.
Efren does not have a big swing like Kaci/Shaw.

 

[Tooler]

A cuemaker friend said he water tests elk masters as you do Triangles...and he said only 3 or 4 are good out of a box of 50. How many Triangles would you say are good from a box?

Been awhile, but it was right around 50%

 

[ak1975]

The new WB tips are all layered tips.... even their water buffalo tips are layered tips.

Where are you seeing these? You must be talking about another brand, not WB

 

[Brother Ron]

Where are you seeing these? You must be talking about another brand, not WB

Yes, after some research those are indeed another wb tip...made by Talisman

 

[Black-Balled]

Any structure, like layered 3/4'' plywood, comparing that to a 9 layered tip it holds up under stress.
Non layered tips need maintenance as they flare out with a player that has a swing like Kaci, Shaw etc, these guys can draw their ball 12-16 feet, Bergman also uses Zan layered medium tip.... layered is structurally a must until I can be proven wrong.
Bad miscue on a layered tip, tip can be attended to, bad miscue on single layered tips, in my past it blows out the side and needs replacement.
Efren does not have a big swing like Kaci/Shaw.

Attending was definitely required.