What's your favorite tip?

The kamui is a tall tip right? Anyone know if it has "mushroom" characteristics? I can't stand when my tip mushrooms :-/
 
I have used a Black Kamui hard for over 3 years and I break with it. It still looks like brand new and it has never "mushroom" on me. I play about 6-8 hours a week, mainly 9 ball and I crush the break with it.
 
TheThaiger said:
Get this, I've miscued the first shot after roughing up a kamui black with a kamui gator grip, and then liberally applying a load of kamui chalk.

Can anyone beat that in the 'spunking money up the wall and STILL miscueing stakes'?

Miscue is my middle name. I miscued three times today straight after applying kamui chalk.
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John Barton in a video, very 1st hit was a beauty misscue. I think he was over confident,and did not stoke like he thought he did. Talking,making a video yap yap yap miscue.
I am sure that if he had more help in the video and had a narrator, it would have been less likely.

If you are misscueing with the Kamui stuff, you must have been dynamite with anything else. lol
 
conetip said:
John Barton in a video, very 1st hit was a beauty misscue. I think he was over confident,and did not stoke like he thought he did. Talking,making a video yap yap yap miscue.
I am sure that if he had more help in the video and had a narrator, it would have been less likely.
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John Barton yapping on? Who'd a, well, you know the rest.

I like the videos people post of themselves shooting - it immediately illustrates their skill level, and, consequently, how much notice I take of what they have say. In JBs case, that's very little...
 
church66 said:
Blue Diamond ;)
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Isn't that one of the shapes/flavors from Lucky Charms?

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Ooo, the new hourglass shape! Appropriate for some pool players!

:D
-Sean
 
stouter2386 said:
I had 3 of them put on and they all mushroomed or didnt hold their shape. Ive heard that you have to shape them short for them to hold their shape. well that still didnt work. so i bought another 2 and put them on myself and had the same problem.

I went through 5 of them in a month trying to get a ''good one'' but didnt have any luck.

Oh figure id mention the first 3 were put on with a lathe and the other 2 were put on with a shaft spinner i made. its a shame because i used to really like triangles but was pretty pissed because i had switched from lepro's to triangles for the same reason. Then found out they're both made by the same company which really pissed me off. I dont get it, i never had a problem with either one of these tips until about 2 years ago. Did tweeten change their manufacturing processes or something or have they always been this way and ive been lucky
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That's the "inconsistency" people refer to when they talk about single-layered tips. Because cue repairs are my main line of work, I install all kinds of tips, and it has been my experience that (with Tweeten tips) you'll get different results from one box to the next. For example, if I get a new box and the first tip from that box is softer than its designation, I can be pretty sure that most of the remaining tips in that box will be the same. Conversely, if the first tip out of a new box is good, I can be pretty sure that most of the remaining tips in that box will also be good.

It kind of sounds like you used tips all from the same batch (box)?

Roger
 
Roger Long said:
That's the "inconsistency" people refer to when they talk about single-layered tips. Because cue repairs are my main line of work, I install all kinds of tips, and it has been my experience that (with Tweeten tips) you'll get different results from one box to the next. For example, if I get a new box and the first tip from that box is softer than its designation, I can be pretty sure that most of the remaining tips in that box will be the same. Conversely, if the first tip out of a new box is good, I can be pretty sure that most of the remaining tips in that box will also be good.

It kind of sounds like you used tips all from the same batch (box)?

Roger
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Roger,

WildWing put up some great info on the Triumph tips. He said they played like the old Champions. The hardness rating says they are an upper end soft tip, almost a medium. Do you know what rating the Champions were?

I thought they played real soft and would burn through tips quickly. I liked the hit on the bar tables, and switched to a harder tip on the big tables.

Best,
Mike
 
Anyone know what the hardness rating is on a standard tip on say a schon factory cue,...and say a predator 314 shaft ? For comparison? Like 60or 70?
 
Over the past 5 years...

Like all of you, I've tried out MANY tips. Single layer to multi layered tips and I have to say that my most favorite tip is the Onyx tip from Tiger. It's just really consistent all around. No mushrooming, holds chalk extremely well, keeps its shape, low maintenance. Its my choice for years to come. Even my cue repair guy likes em and he doesnt like any tip except for Kamui.. If I had to choose a single layered tip I'd go with a well pressed Elk..No milk duds for me.
 
Blue Knight by Tweeten.

Moved from Moori Soft to a Pressed Elk Master and now the Blue Knight.

Blue Knight hits like a Moori Soft but doesn't glaze over. It's soft but without the spongy, marshmallow feeling of an elk master.

I'm at 4 months right now and it still feels the same as the first day.
 
Tips

If you find a tip you like, then why switch to another tip. I shoot with a Hercules layered medium hard tip, and it gives me good results, particularly with stun shots. I have no desire to switch.
 
Wizard med but moori med has been getting serious play time. I think it's because I can't really tell the difference


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Tried and true

Elk Master are the way to go for low cost , LePro mushroom but work great with proper prep, The Kamui is excellent soft to med seem better although they harden up very fast so keep them in shape, the chalk really adds to them,
 
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