Just installed my last Ultra Skin (black soft). I need to order some more.
What is your Favorite Tip flavor at the moment
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buddabrown
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old school elk master
I have been using Tiger Tips over 20 years, latest is Emerald.
Good stuff Tigers.
Good stuff Tigers.
I tried a couple of them years ago. Just to see what they were all about. I liked them at first then both times they got very very hard after a 40-50 hours of use. They seemed to compress and harden up. I don’t have a lot of power and was playing mostly 1P so it wasn’t due to shooting hard. Possibly that issue has been resolved since I used them. When they were new-they were nice.
Choppertwo
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Been hey Moori medium guy for over ten years now
Any advice on picking a good elkmaster?
For a while I've been really curious to see what kind of tip my stroke would shape without the use of pressing or burnishing.
Other than trimming off the excess mushroom and a few initial shapings, Id just let my game dictate the shape of the tip.
i'm not sure if it's good advice, but, here goes:
press your thumbnail into the crown, some will feel harder than others
drop them from a height of apprx 5" onto a hardwood table, i have better luck with those that make a higher pitched sound
after installed apprx 50% make the cut, however,a good one will last longer than i expected esp. if you "prick" the crown or gently use rough grit sand paper when necessary
AVOID heating the tip
Pick the tallest one to install and then bang 100 balls hard with it.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I think when you surface the bottom of the tip if the leather is consistently colored it is likely a good tip. They are light gray. If you see color variations they are usually the ones that swell like crazy when soaked in milk for duds. Pressing fixes them but they will not have the "magic" of the uniform colored ones. I'd not use a non-uniform one if I were not pressing it.
I also like to bounce a screwdriver on the tips and see how they feel and sound. Softer tips will be duller sounding, harder ones will be more high pitched and bounce more. The real magic ones bounce very well and sound tinky with the screwdriver.
Phillips head or Flat screwdriver?
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I actually use a phillips on the point of it, but angled a bit. There's not really any wrong or right answer though. An awl might show more as it's a smaller area with less variation. I suppose either could work, but my cheapie portable drill based sharpshooter "lathe" uses a phillips to tighten the rollers so it's always on my workbench.
I like pressed elkmasters.
Not any better quality. I've tried them. Different, yes but not made any better. AFAIK same shop makes them both.
LePro then Elk Master. The stiffer shafts get an Elky. Think I got a really good LePro on my player yesterday. A tip pic almost doesn’t work on it-yet.
I use a selected elkmaster. I might dud it or not. When I dud a tip I just bring it back to the same height it was before the milk caused it to swell. Gives me maybe a soft to medium soft, never put a hardness tester on it. A new shaft came with a sniper, I don't like it. Miscues are unheard of with the elkmaster, I miscue a few times a session with the sniper. Might be the tip, might be the cf shaft. A sample of one sniper and I have used the elkmasters forever, since the early eighties when I first got a dud from Jensen Cues. As far as I know he invented the dud. Anyway, my sampling of one tip on a shaft I have only played a hundred hours or so isn't an overall indictment of the sniper, haven't been pleased with my results with one tip on one shaft. When I am in the mood to play with tips I will put an elkmaster on the CF shaft. Moving right now so it is low priority.
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