Playing with almost no tip

[MrRottweiler]

My tip has worn down to almost nothing and its in desperate need of being replaced. Despite this I had a practice yesterday and have never played better. The positioning I was getting was unbelieveable and its because there was almost no tip on it. I made some embarrassing mis-cues but I've never played as confident and was getting the mayority of long pots. My problem now is that I want to put on a tip that will play as if there isn't one on the cue. (if that makes sense)

I suspect a hard tip will do the job better than a soft one but whats the selection of hard tips and their attributes?

[Wity]

A mate of mine was in the same position as you a long time ago he had the most worn out tip imaginable, miscued a fair bit but was playing so good he was almst terrified to put another tip on. Why, god only knows his cue in other peoples hands was aweful. Eventually he replaced it and it was a couple of months before he was playing so well again. Back then though it was either an elk or a blue diamond none of the harder or laminated tips were around and if they were they wasn't known of or available to us. Had they been i'm sure he would have chosen something akin to a medium or a hard laminated one such as talisman and sliced away a couple of layers off the base of it as they are a bit thicker. He'd have had the same feel almost immedietly as they require so little bedding in and the his number of miscues would have dropped.

I posted this link in the accesories section to a website that probably has the biggest selection of tips which also shows their hardness factors as measured by a durometer. It might help you somewhat.

http://www.poolndarts.com/292-Leather-Tips/

EDIT..

If you do try the slicing some off idea either off the base or the top be aware of the make up of the tip itself some of these laminated ones have harder layers at the base than on top.

[Semih_Sayginer]

Rotsy....sand the base of the tip down so that theres less than half of the "side wall" height left before retipping your cue.

(using a harder tip may give that effect, but wont be certain to in all cases)