Who ever recommended Triangle Tips...

My tip of choice as well.

No hype; just an honest tip.

You do get better/worse ones from a box sometimes, but overall, they are very good to me.
 
I used Triangles for eons and only semi-recently put on a Talisman medium and love them suckers. Put them on both shafts of my Olney. Nothing wrong with Triangles of old and I always put a fiber pad between the tip and ivory ferrule. Just prefer the Talisman's now :)
 
FSutton said:
By far the best tips.. you just gotta get a good one out of the box.
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How do you determine a good one prior to installing it?

After it is glued on, I imagine an experienced installer can tell by how it cuts, and an experienced player can tell by how it plays. But what is the test right "out of the box?" Someone said Black Boar uses only a few out of a box of 50. How does he choose a good one? Is the test visual? Is it a float-or-sink test? Does it involve hardness testing -- by hand or by machine? Anyone know?
 
i use Triangle tips too, Le Pro were great tips over 20 years ago-they are terrible now. I change my tip every 100-150 hours of play, Once in a while I get a bad Triangle but its the exception not the rule.
 
TheTablePro said:
I used Triangles for eons and only semi-recently put on a Talisman medium and love them suckers. Put them on both shafts of my Olney. Nothing wrong with Triangles of old and I always put a fiber pad between the tip and ivory ferrule. Just prefer the Talisman's now :)
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I use Triangles for the most part. Tried a Moori or Sniper and didn't think there was a much of a difference for the cost. My OB-1 originally came with a Talisman I think and it played great.

I think I will try Talisman as my next tip.
 
I played with Triangle tips and I liked them a lot and then I got caught up in the layered tip frenzy. I've tried almost every layered tip and i'm thinking seriously about going back to Triangle tips. They are low cost and they play great. After they are broken in and re-shaped you are good to go for a long time.

James
 
SCCues said:
I played with Triangle tips and I liked them a lot and then I got caught up in the layered tip frenzy. I've tried almost every layered tip and i'm thinking seriously about going back to Triangle tips. They are low cost and they play great. After they are broken in and re-shaped you are good to go for a long time.

James
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that is the thing, at least compared to lepros, my triangle dont mushroom. i mean they do, but it is just a tad. they are really nice and play good for a long time and they cost like 5 cents or something ridiculous.
 
tri tips....

they are my favorite tips...i have been playing with them for 20 years and just cant get myself to switch to those fancy new layerd tips...if its not broke dont fix it....and the price of a layerd tip is a joke....i guess i am a little old school...also they are very easy to shape unlike some of the layerd tips....but just my 2 cents on subject....
 
AtLarge said:
How do you determine a good one prior to installing it?

After it is glued on, I imagine an experienced installer can tell by how it cuts, and an experienced player can tell by how it plays. But what is the test right "out of the box?" Someone said Black Boar uses only a few out of a box of 50. How does he choose a good one? Is the test visual? Is it a float-or-sink test? Does it involve hardness testing -- by hand or by machine? Anyone know?
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Have a look at the Black Boar cues site. Looks like he uses a duramater to test the tips, and mentions he tests how fast the return to normal shape after being compressed and something else about he cut some up and looked at them with a microscope. I think he must be a genius of sorts.
 
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Tom Coker has been installing Triangles on his Custom Cues for
as long as I can remember.

In fact, when I have him put my Super Pros on instead, he blurts out
several four letter words then, reluctantly, installs them.
 
Just a matter of personal preference....

I think alot of the of the "Older" Cuemakers like to use Triangle tips -- nothing wrong with them IMO -- personally, like them over LePros!?!

I think the layered tips feel better to me and, I believe they take a little less maintenance once you've got them shaped up like you want....Talisman is probably the most popular one up here at the moment (as they are a little more recognized and affordable tip) but, it's really all just a matter of what your'e comfortable with and that is a matter of trying a few tips to see what feel's/sounds right to you on your particular cue!?

I currently have a Tiger Dynomite with a pad on an Old Adam Rambow for my playing cue which I think hits lights out; just started experimenting with with an Old Palmer Bullet cue with a White Diamond tip for my break stick -- I think it may really hit harder than a phenolic tip :eek: :grin:

It's just a bit of Trial and Error :grin-square:
 
Love Triangle tips. Use a tip pick on one then chalk it up and you wont need to chalk for a set. Not to hard, not to soft, holds chalk very well and will move the cueball as well as any layered tip. They are sort of like me. Not as pretty, sort of old school but you can count on them to get the job done.:grin:
 
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Have a look at the Black Board cues site. Looks like he uses a duramater to test the tips, and mentions he tests how fast the return to normal shape after being compressed and something else about he cut some up and looked at them with a microscope. I think he must be a genius of sorts.
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he is a genious, he specifically builds his cues to play with Triangle tips. you have to match the tip to the cue, kinda like matching the tires to a rim. some tips just dont play good on certain cues. After his first shot with the Boar JA said "this tip is too soft", about 10 shots later he said "You know what?, these tips are perfect for this cue". JA went on explaining about how the tip you choose is depandent on the hit of a cue. Tony from Black Boar said the same thing.

I never really never gave it much thought and tryied everything on any cue with out taking into consideration the hit/weight/stiffness of a cue before I put a tip on it. Point is you have to conside the cues particulars before you try and match it with a tip. You wouldnt put mudder tires on a Rolls Royce or low-rider tires on a 4X4 all jacked up. I heard this about 4 months apart from Tony once and JA another time. they know alot more than I do, makes sence to me. Figure out what type of tip would work best on a particular cue and try it and similar brands of the same tip and see what you like, but using a super soft tip then a water buffalo tip on the same cue isnt going to give you any information, its not a accurate measure of anything. They both told me what the basic idea was for tip softness/hardness to match up to the hit of the cue. I remember they both said the same thing-problem is I forgot what they said. I'll find out and post up their opinion, i'm interested in this too. man I wish I could remember, i'm sitting here drawing a blank. Personal perferance is a fator of course but they elaborated beyond that, Tony more so than JA.
 
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Currently I have been more then extremely pleased with the hit of my sniper. It's a little hard but nothing serious.

Next will be kamuii black.
 
Fatboy said:
he is a genious, he specifically builds his cues to play with Triangle tips. you have to match the tip to the cue, kinda like matching the tires to a rim. some tips just dont play good on certain cues. After his first shot with the Boar JA said "this tip is too soft", about 10 shots later he said "You know what?, these tips are perfect for this cue". JA went on explaining about how the tip you choose is depandent on the hit of a cue. Tony from Black Boar said the same thing.

I never really never gave it much thought and tryied everything on any cue with out taking into consideration the hit/weight/stiffness of a cue before I put a tip on it. Point is you have to conside the cues particulars before you try and match it with a tip. You wouldnt put mudder tires on a Rolls Royce or low-rider tires on a 4X4 all jacked up. I heard this about 4 months apart from Tony once and JA another time. they know alot more than I do, makes sence to me. Figure out what type of tip would work best on a particular cue and try it and similar brands of the same tip and see what you like, but using a super soft tip then a water buffalo tip on the same cue isnt going to give you any information, its not a accurate measure of anything. They both told me what the basic idea was for tip softness/hardness to match up to the hit of the cue. I remember they both said the same thing-problem is I forgot what they said. I'll find out and post up their opinion, i'm interested in this too. man I wish I could remember, i'm sitting here drawing a blank. Personal perferance is a fator of course but they elaborated beyond that, Tony more so than JA.
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Yeah, genius for sure. I read if you want him to make a shaft for your cue, he wants you to go to his shop so he can observe how you play, I guess he calls the getting fitted for a shaft. He can watch your style of play, then he will craft a custom shaft to fit on your cue. I wonder what he does with all of the unused tips.
 
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I have found 1 way I actually DO like triangle tips...PRESSED!! I have tried them a few times before and never liked them for any reason, but the last time I got together with Rob (A9ballBr8k), he had Bob DZ install one of these tips (pressed) installed onto the fancy sneaky-pete he just had made and I actually liked the way it played!! I'm gonna need to have one installed onto one of my many DZ shafts I have for backups and give it a shot in a game situation someday. Thanks Rob for giving me something else to spend money on! :rolleyes::rolleyes: LOL
 
I stopped by a pool hall earlier this summer, just to hit some balls around.
I was on my way to or from somewhere so I didn't have my cue with me,
Grabbed a house cue off the rack and proceeded to bang some balls. The cue felt pretty good and after I warmed up I decided to play the 9 ball ghost a while. After I jawed a 7 ball on the 6th rack, I came back to Earth. Trying to find out how I had played that well with a house cue, I asked what they had on them......

it was Triangles!!! :smile:

td
 
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