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What's the general story on the differences between pip shapes? From my experience conicals can give more dip effect and disturbing balls in general less subject to spin. While the tightly spaced cylindrical shaped ones, can produce more spin?

Is that how other pips players see it too?

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For a first approximation it would make sense... the conical pips have less surface area, so they produce less spin and react less to incoming spin as well. "Dip" would depend on what you mean - I'd say topspin drives would dip LESS and have a flatter trajectory. Blocks? It would depend on incoming spin. Less of the topspin would be "reflected" (like it is with inverted rubber) so blocks of topspin would have less topspin, with a flatter trajectory.

Iskandar

SpinLord rubbers description tells that conical are better for generating topspin and cylindrical are better for backspin.

Having played with Spinlord Orkan with its cylindrical pips and Keiler, Waran and Gipfelsturm with conical I would agree with this.

Conical pips: hexer pips 802 40 rakza po
Cylinder: spectol 651 889

Cylinder have less spin flatter less control

TSP spinpips has unique part cylindrical part conical pips, which gives it the benefits of a low spin pip on straight contact but as the blade angle of attack increases the pips impart more spin.

moristo sp spectol blue hammond fa speed too