Whats The Best Chalk

[spookster13]

Hopefully someone can help me, i am experimenting with different cue tips for snooker, i have used blue diamond, elks, talisman soft and buffalo diamonds and have come to the conclusion that i prefer harder tips, best for me has been talisman soft's, but i understand that the harder the tip the courser the chalk should be and secondly if this is true what is the best make of chalk to use, and who sells it

Thanks in advance

[sunny3909]

Talisman tips hold the chalk very well whether its hard or soft.Triangle chalk is used by almost all the professionals especially as your case Ronnie o Sullivan,John Higgins,Ding Junhui who use talisman tips use triangle green chalk.So I don't think you will find better chalk then triangle green.But there are lot of duplicates in the market so you should see where you are buying them from.
Hope that helps!

Warm Regards,
Sunny

[sunny3909]

In my opinion Its a myth that softer tips hold the chalk better then talisman bcoz I find that talisman tips hold the chalk consistently better then Elkmaster or Blue diamond.

[KeithinFrance]

I've tried a lot of different chalks and, IMO, nothing is as good and consistent as triangle green, which is why I always go back to it. Good chalk will go well on any tip.

[robsonj]

got to be triangle green for me , my wife uses silver cup billiard chalk in pewter colour and the guy who maintains the table nearly has a coronary due to the marks it leaves

[MattCash]

Have you tried MW laminated supertips? or O'min laminated tips?

The MW supertips are a more snooker friendly version of the talisman tip.
I can't comment about the o'min tips though.

My preference of chalk is Triangle green.

[spookster13]

Hard tips

I take it from the replys that Masters Billiard Chalk for instance which i understand to be a course chalk used on a Talisman Soft tip would be of no advantage to me. A reason for starting this thread was due to my experiences with a buffalo diamond tip (a bit on the hard side) not taking the geen triangle chalk, i had to roughen up the the tip every couple of hours.

Thanks to those who have passed on their experiences.

[KeithinFrance]

That's funny, I use a buffalo diamond plus tip with green triangle chalk and I've never had any problems at all. It could have been a bad tip, as generally they aren't hard, in my experience.

[Mike P]

For years I used Master (blue) and thought that it was the best, but along with leaving tire tracks on the cloth, it marked up the cue ball quickly. After setting up my table I wanted a chalk that would blend with the green color of the cloth. That way I could spend more time playing instead of cleaning. I found that Silver Cup spruce green blended with the cloth perfectly. The only draw back was that I found it quickly left chalk on the cue ball and prone to kicks. I knew that the pros could not be using SC because the cue ball would have to be cleaned on every second or third shot. I started viewing the footage I had on tape to see what the professionals were using. Finding that Triangle was the chalk to use, I have since switched to it.

I am confused with one of my observations since using Triangle. It is the best at not marking the cue ball, but for some reason the object balls quickly developed chalk marks??? I have found that with clean balls the object balls develop chalk marks before the cue ball. If anyone has an answer to this observation I am all ears.

I think that I will throw some in a bag with a wet sponge for a few days, to see what adding a bit of moisture to them does.

As to the best chalk I have added an attachment showing what must be the best, because how could their logo be wrong.

Mike

[KeithinFrance]

Nice logo!!!

[vainparasite]

Blackboard chalk is ace for indigestion but i always use triangle green on my tip. No particular reason apart from they sell it at the club but i have never had any problems with it.

[barracuda911]

Triangle have produced a few different 'formulas' of chalk the past few years.
The really light green (fine), the darker green (gritty) and another light green, which also seems to be a fine chalk as opposed to the gritty darker one.
I have read of and heard of, a number of complaints with the darker chalk leading to a greater number of kicks.

[vmax4steve]

I use Master ( green ). Elkmaster tip with Master chalk to match, made sense to me and it works.
Tried Triangle and found it to be a little too soft, comes off the tip too easily, marks the cue ball and is picked up from the cloth by object balls, which causes kicks.