What is your cue tip?

What tip do you use?

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Detlev Rackow said:
I have used two LePros, and they needed reshaping quite often. When I shaped them with my Ultimate Tool, the surface showed thick and prominent grain. It took some hits and a lot of chalking before the surface settled in.

Did this not happen to your tips?

Regards,

Detlev
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when i reshape them they do fuzz up quite a bit. but i find that with a good amount of chalk and about a racks worth of practice balls, including using some really deep draw and hard force follow they settle down nicely for me.
 
Le Pros wore way too fast for me... seemed like I had to replace a tip every 2 or 3 months.

I switched over to Talisman Pro Mediums, which I like a lot.

But I'm currently test-driving Snipers on a 314 shaft and on a Z2 shaft... but the shaft/tip/butt that I keep coming back to when I'm hitting balls on my home table is a OB-1/Talisman Pro Medium/Bob Frey Ebony SP.

The OB-1 shaft was purchased back in 2007 when they came with Talisman tips.
 
These polls are interesting; however we (Tiger) make 10 distinctly different tips:

  1. Sniper
  2. Everest
  3. Jump/Break
  4. IceBreaker
  5. Soft-Tiger
  6. Med-Tiger
  7. Hard-Tiger
  8. Dynamite
  9. Sarin
  10. Red Line (5280)
We have some other prototypes in the works as well, but then again we have probably gone through hundreds of combinations in the past and for one reason or another, they just did not make it past the protype stage of development.

A little list of the other guys too:

Tweeten: LePro, ElkMaster, and Triangle
Talisman: Water Buffalo, Hard, Med, and Soft (I think they also make Hercules).
Moori: Quick, Med, and Slow (really all the same tip; however the use pressing to gauge them. Slow eventually becomes, Med, and then Quick as they get used)

I am pretty sure all of these are made by the same Chinese manufacturer:

Wizard, 5th Avenue, Win, and WB.
 
I bought a Sugartree cue about a year ago and it had a Superpro tip. I put them on other cues and I like it!
 
I dont like the sound that the kamui gives off if you hit the ball soft you can hear it. hit the ball hard and you hear nothing. i have had customers say what is that nosie is the tip bad or the layers coming apart.
 
I started out using LePros, and didn't care for them. I've been using triangles for the past few years, and am ready to try something new.

Looks like it will probably be the Sniper, based on public consensus.
 
Cuebuddy said:
Yes they do here's a link that will help.http://www.poolndarts.com/p-6171-Talisman-Pro-Tips/
The pro tips have 4 grades of hardness and the Buffalo has 2. I use mediums and they are so hard a cat couldn't scratch them:D i can't imagine what a extra hard would be like, maybe a ball bearing cut in half:wink:
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I have a couple of Talisman X-hards and they are like bricks. LOLz

I started out on LePros back before there was any layered tips. Then tried different ones before settling on Talisman M's. Now I use Snipers and sometimes Dynomite, which IMHO has a nice feel to it.
 
What is your cue tip?

My cue tip is that little leather thingy on the skinny end of my cue.

Oh, that isn't what you meant?

never mind.

Jeff Livingston
 
winners07 said:
I dont like the sound that the kamui gives off if you hit the ball soft you can hear it. hit the ball hard and you hear nothing. i have had customers say what is that nosie is the tip bad or the layers coming apart.
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i have been using kamui for about 6 months now and have never had that problem, maybe i didnt notice any sound.

has anyone else had this problem?
 
xpatcan1 said:
i have been using kamui for about 6 months now and have never had that problem, maybe i didnt notice any sound.

has anyone else had this problem?
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What?

Jeff Livingston
 
I use an Everest tip. It is harder then a Sniper. It reminds me of a pressed Triangle tip. It does not hold chalk as well as a Sniper though. But they hold there shape well with use.
 
Best tip IMHO

I've tried a lot of tips, popular and not. Out of all of them the one that in my opinion beats all is Porper's layered water buffalo tip. Press before application and you have a tip that holds chalk, keeps shape, and grips the ball better than any tip out there. But that's just my opinion.
 
Milk Dud....Made out of a elkmaster... It hits real good and doesn't hardly mushroom once you get it packed down and reshaped a couple times....
 
mjantti said:
Moori Slow
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I played with Moori Slow tips for years. I wanted to try an OB-1 shaft and I found one on AZ for sale that matched my cue and it came with a Sniper tip so I bought the shaft. I almost replaced the tip when I got the shaft, but I thought i'd at least try the Sniper a couple of times. I like it so much that i've switched from Moori Slow tips to Snipers. The more you play with a Sniper tip the better it plays.........

James
 
Tip Hardness

nathandumoulin said:
I'm all about the Elkmaster. Cheap and effective, and damn near impossible to miscue with.

I'd like to see a poll on tip hardness. I've always wondered about that....
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Hey Nathandumoulin, According to my Mueller's catalog which has a hardness rating for all the tips they sell, here are some of them.
Elkmaster 60.1
Elkmaster Milk Dud They call theirs the Dudley Tip 73.6
Moori S 63.8 M 74.2 H 82.7
Sniper M 66.9
Talisman S 64.3 M 73.9 H81.4 XH 86.2
Kamui S 69.6 MS 71.3 M 75 H 81.9
Molavia S 66.6 M 73.5 H 80.9

That is just some of the tips they have and for general purposes their ratings are as follows:
Soft 60-65 Medium 66-75 Hard 81-85 Extra Hard 86 & Up

They do not specify how they arrived at these ratings.
Hope this helps,
Dan
 
I like tips in the soft to medium range. I use a pressed elk master on one shaft and a Wizard M on another. The pressed elk master will mushroom a little once or twice and after that they are done. They play great, no miscue's, lots of english, touch shots are easy. The Wizard M are the closest thing I've found to the old Moori M. I've had one on since Oct., it hasn't mushroomed and I've had to shape it just a few times. I shoot 3 nights of league and practice at home almost every day.

For a hard tip, I like the super pro. They play great for a hard tip, and you can't beat the price.

One note on the pressed elk master, if you don't have someone or some way to trim off the mushroom they can be a problem. I have a lathe so if it does mushroom it's nothing to trim it. These will mushroom some, they are a soft tip and that's what soft tips do. Also, if you like a dime radius the tip life is shorter, but at the cost of them you can replace them every 4 to 6 months and it's not a big deal.
 
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I think I have Elkmaster on my cue currently. Don't know for sure and neither does anyone else. Long story. I prefer Moori Medium, but would like to try Snipers when I can afford to have the tips changed. Had a lot of trouble with Triangles when I had my Gilbert.
 
My two main playing shafts are Predator 314-2 (with different joints)
On one I have a Kamui hard(My vote)
On the other I have a Blackjack hard(was not an option)
I like them both just the same, I also like the Wizard hard.
When I'll be out of tips I want to try the black Kamui.
 
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