Why use a Milk Dud Tip?

[Bayou Queen]

It's some cajun voodoo magic Mike Johnson knows.

I bought a cue from him two years ago and when I got it was surprised to see how low the milk duds were. Two years on and they're still the same height and hold chalk better than any tip I've used. The only maintenance I do is use a tip pick occasionally.

I have never tried the Elk Masters ones so I cannot speak on them. I have only used the ones that Mike Johnson makes and OMG there isn't a tip on the market that compares to it. They are by far the best hitting tips I have ever used.

 

[ShootingArts]

I have never tried the Elk Masters ones so I cannot speak on them. I have only used the ones that Mike Johnson makes and OMG there isn't a tip on the market that compares to it. They are by far the best hitting tips I have ever used.

I don't know what tip Mike uses now. As long as I knew dating back to soon after he started making them in the early eighties, I believe, Elkmasters were his tip of choice to start with. Are his tips still blue? If so, it indicates the leather was chrome tanned and probably an Elkmaster.

My first dud from Mike lasted me for years and played fairly soft which I liked. The maker can make a dud almost any hardness depending on how much they compress them after treatment. Liking a softer tip I compressed mine to about original height. That gave me a tip about the same hardness as an Elkmaster that lasted a very long time.

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