homemade scoring beads

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Miller

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hello. i have put a lot of time and money into my home billiard room and would like to mount a set of scoring beads off of one of my walls.

i have plenty of room (about 20' lateral travel and having the ability/knowledge to mount the requisite hardware/line is not a problem) but would like to have 150 count on both ends - as opposed to the standard 50 that come on the various products on line. just curious if anyone has made their own and willing to share a picture of how they made theirs.

thanks in advance for any good ideas.

dustin miller
 
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You could buy 3 sets that go to 50 and put them all on the same wire. I think I'd rather do that than make 300 of those little things.
 
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Miller

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81 views and 1 reply :p.... guess there aren't that many people who have made their own after all.... thanks for the input AtLarge. i am resigned to build what i have envisioned. will post up a pick when i get it done.

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picked up these at a hobby lobby store -and had to order a lot more. will use 1/8" coated cable for a string. leave the beads on the left natural. stain the beads in the middle black every 5 and red ever 25 with a marker on the bottom.
 
alinco

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Hi Miller,

Here's what I came up with a couple years ago. It is less than 3 ft wide and goes to 100. I used beads and colored string from Michael's (craft store). Pine boards from Home Depot.

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Andy
 
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That looks pretty good, it will do the job.
I need to get a small set of beads and make something small that will keep track of 15 balls , i currently use paper and pencil but its a pain to keep scratching numbers in every inning or so. I was thinking of making a 15 bead on a string and keeping it in my case and just using the paper and pencil for the running score and keeping track of the rack with the beads.
Did i make sense with that ? lol. Its just an idea off the top of my head, anyone has a better idea, i would like to hear it.
 
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For some reason, the thread title "homemade scoring beads" by the screenname "Miller" made me think of empty beer cans sliding on a wire.

:p
-Sean <-- that was the Jeff Foxworthy version of scoring beads
 
MN Kid

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Here's what 2 sets of standard beads looks like. I put a 100 bead string at each end of the table after pulling off all the numbers.

 
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