Barry Stark's tips on cues, and tips on tips

[jonny66]

This is the follow up to the vid where Barry goes to Cuecraft to get a cue made. He doesn't really say anything I didn't know already, but some folk might find it interesting. The thing he did say that interested me, was that a hard tip gives less spin, and a soft tip gives more spin. I always thought it was the other way around, is it not?

[thommo335]

Barry Stark's tips on cues, and tips on tips

seems perfectly reasonable to me. soft golf balls stay on the clubface fractionally longer than harder balls so the grooves have more time to impart spin. Same for a tip I guess more contact time with a softer tip. Barry stark always says timing is the the length of time the tip is in contact with the white. Better timing, longer conact, more spin

[Big Splash!]

Spot on^. Exactly why laminated tips should be, ahem, swerved (kaboom!). They don't grip as well, they are punchier tips more suited to breaking pool balls and that's what kamui developed them for first, playing pool. You can't beat a 50p elk. Find a good one and you've got a tip as good as anything.

[ghost121]

Agreed about the Elk, it's finding a good one that's the problem. And the Elk Pros are just as inconsistent at fifteen times the price.