White Diamond tips?

[SCCues]

I have a weak break due to my lower back problems making me hold back a little on my break stroke so any advantage in breaking always interests me. I read on AZ about different players who liked White Diamond break tips and it got my interest up. I've been using a break shaft with a brown linen phenolic tip/ferrule on it and I was hitting the balls harder with it, but i'd lost some control on the cue ball unless I really hit them good. A friend that I play with asked me to install a White Diamond tip on his break cue for him and he tried it out the next week and let me try it also. I was impressed with it and I ordered a couple of the tips for myself.

I've installed a White Diamond tip on my break cue and I like it. I seem to hit the break shot about as hard as I did with the phenolic tip/ferrule, but I can control the cue ball a little better.

This works for me and I thought i'd pass it along to anyone who might be interested. I don't care for the way the tip looks on my cue (I should color the edge black with a marker), but it works well for breaking.

 

[Varney Cues]

If you were losing the cueball on your break its very simple. The tip was too round causing you to put english on the ball. I make mine somewhat flat in the center...this provides a much larger sweet spot that imparts zero english with a center ball hit allowing the cueball to stop in the middle of the table. Or...you probably were not striking the cueball were intended. Its best to hit the break with a stop shot type stroke until you have that controlled and slowly dial the power up from there, keeping control & a level as possible cuestick.