For all you would-be-flamers!

[ShootingArts]

not hardly!

Hu, the fact that I'd rather eat out of the bottom of a garbage can than rob someone if I was that hungry is the way I am, but never the less...if you offered me a million dollars to recover your pool table so I wouldn't have to eat out of a garbage can....I'd still tell you....you DON'T have enough money to buy my work...and continue looking for something to eat Fortunately I'm a good table mechanic, so I'll never go hungry

Your problem with me as a mechanic, is that I set the bar to high for your mechanic to follow in my foot steps, and I think that bothers you just a little to much but...OH well! I'm getting ready to change another part of this industry....and believe me, you'll hear about it soon enough and so will everyone else....but it won't be me doing the talking about the change...THAT will come from someone else....by way of a "Thank you"

Glen

My mechanic is me. I don't kludge together stuff or put pool tables on roofing nails to start rocking back and forth after they are used a little while and then come post all of this foolishness on a public forum. I don't do work like that and if I did I'd be sure nobody ever knew about it!

Hu

 

[realkingcobra]

My mechanic is me. I don't kludge together stuff or put pool tables on roofing nails to start rocking back and forth after they are used a little while and then come post all of this foolishness on a public forum. I don't do work like that and if I did I'd be sure nobody ever knew about it!

Hu

Yep, just as I thought....jealous:rotflmao:

 

[ShootingArts]

I meet folks halfway

Smokey,

I'm no more a perfect human being than you, Terry, or anyone else is. They crucified the last perfect person. However I meet everyone halfway or maybe just a bit more. That is why somebody as good as Terry thinks I am almost a saint and a jackass thinks I am a even bigger jackass. In truth they are both right, at least in my dealings with them.

I don't know if they are still available here to see or not but if you look back a ways either here or in the archives you will find RKC bashing multiple other mechanics and being very ugly to them. I don't really care that he blows his own horn, attacking others is what I got fed up with. Funny that he posts a hall of shame of other people's work and brags about his silly stuff. If I found strips of wood stapled in the pockets or roofing nails under all the feet of a table I would be taking pictures of that to add to the hall of shame if I did such things!

As for your opinions and mine, we are both entitled to our own. Many friends of mine are also friends or friendly with people I don't care for. Doesn't affect how I feel about them in the least.

Hu

weren't you "the" great friend to Terry during his surgery? the laptop fund and all? sorry, my mind is not what it used to be, but i thought all that was from you hu, a great guy and fellow az'er, and more imho - a very decent man. did my memory fail [again]?

anyway...

i can just tell you this:

you are completely wrong about glen. and in my opinion glen 'helped' doctor98; so he waited for some $$$; to fn bad. 98 ain't my cup of tea either, but i don't go around bad mouthing him. but what has he done for pool?

glen has done TONS!!!!

and fyi: i am no hotshot, but i have a few friends and i will tell you this from being in the west...

everyone of them who know many tech's [i don't want to point fingers at anyone]; when asked said...

glen is CLEARLY THE BEST
hands down, THE BEST!!

i would be happy to tell you the whole story of what glen did for me so if you want pm me and you phone number], but never asked for a dime more, day after day working, then helping me get brand new slates direct from sean cummings the pres of brunswich, then coming back and picking them up for me and installing, ect, and still never asked me for a dime.

so of course we played on my new great table for $$$, $100 a game, i knew he would beat me. but to his credit, he just said "STOP". he on his own just felt appreciated. and that was enough for him. so...

as you have 'all your reasons' for disliking him, i have my reasons for liking him but completely different from you, i truly appreciate him for his complete dedication to me/us, but more importantly to all of us to have the best he can do, or imho, the best of the best playing tables.

i hope you still like me as i respected you much for so many of your posts and for being there for someone i think is a great asset to us all, Terry, another man i truly admire, like i did you. please rethink.

i love this site and have learned so much, but i know, i know so little. maybe you have more $$$ than me, maybe you are more important than me, that is fine. i just hope you will give me enough respect as a fellow az'er and rethink about glen.

and if i can ask your help, please read the following threads:

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=173837

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=176023

we would really appreciate any help on these.

all the best,
smokey

 

[realkingcobra]

My mechanic is me. I don't kludge together stuff or put pool tables on roofing nails to start rocking back and forth after they are used a little while and then come post all of this foolishness on a public forum. I don't do work like that and if I did I'd be sure nobody ever knew about it!

Hu

Hu, if you stop sucking on your thumb....the feeling will come back sooner or later:grin:

 

[ShootingArts]

envious for sure!

Yep, just as I thought....jealous:rotflmao:

I do envy folks that are happy with very little reason. That makes me envy you a little bit while laughing at you. A man so full of himself with so little justification truly reminds me that ignorance is bliss! Some of the worst craftsmen I have ever seen thought they were the greatest and were equally pleased with themselves.

Hu

Edit: Notice the difference in my quote and his post. Quick editing from one foolish statement to another by the RKC!

 

[ArizonaPete]

Sir, you are the Master.
Ignore the rock throwers and please continue to post pictures of tables you're working on. Love to see such great work.

 

[realkingcobra]

Hu, it's your total ignorance as a pool table mechanic that leads you to believe that YOU know what's right and wrong with my work. And I say "ignorance" because you won't find ONE table mechanic in the world that would agree with you that them little "strips" of wood is the wrong way to repair the rails as I've done. As far as bashing other mechanics, you're blowing your own horn there again...because of your ignorance once again as a "self made do it yourself mechanic" and at a later date, not to far from now, I'll prove that the way K66 cushions have been installed on GC's in the past was, and still is wrong. But it won't be me pointing it out, it'll be the customers that have had that done to their pool tables...and I've corrected it to where the tables play perfect. So, in YOUR words, I guess THEY wouldn't know whats right or wrong either. But your ignorance blocks your ability to reason, because it's the customer that has the knowledge of the "before" and "after" playability of the "Same" table, and can not only tell the difference in play, but can see it as well.









As I've said in the past, I don't support installing 15" tires on 16" rims, just because it can be done, that doesn't make it right.

Glen

 

[realkingcobra]

I do envy folks that are happy with very little reason. That makes me envy you a little bit while laughing at you. A man so full of himself with so little justification truly reminds me that ignorance is bliss! Some of the worst craftsmen I have ever seen thought they were the greatest and were equally pleased with themselves.

Hu

Edit: Notice the difference in my quote and his post. Quick editing from one foolish statement to another by the RKC!

This industry needs change. Change takes place by someone willing to take on the challenge to create that change. And that kind of change is going to create waves, trust me on that one. But, I'm OK with the waves, because I care enough about this industry to ride out the waves of change.

Mechanics today need leadership, it's because of the lack of mechanic leadership that it's so hard to find a mechanic today that cares more about the final outcome of the job....instead of how much it's going to pay, and how fast can I get it done so I can get to that next job so I can make more money.

And then when a mechanic has demonstrated the abilities to perform perfect work, they then must compete with the "hack" pricing, thereby undercutting their hard earned skills, to the point that....WHY should they be concerned with perfect work....when the customer don't care.

This whole industry is screwed up as far as I'm concerned, and it's about time someone stepped forward and did something about it. That's where I come in, because I have NOTHING to lose. Believe me, I'm the best at rocking the boat.

When it comes to being the best mechanic, I don't know....I probably am, as I've not run across anyone else's work that matches my own....from coast to coast, but then again...it's sad, because I can't be in all places at the same time, so I guess that just means I have to work with other mechanics to get their skills up there with mine, then we can all spread around them skills to more and more customers.

Which is what brings me to posting on AZ. If it were not for my posting here on AZ Hu, even you wouldn't know what's right or wrong on pool tables today.

I post to bring "ATTENTION" to this industry, to help bring about change, to help educate customers to know the difference between right and wrong when it comes to working on their pool tables....so that they can demand better....and force the mechanics to learn to do better if they want that job.

Wake up Hu, see the rose...growing up through the pile of shit!!

Glen

 

[Jaden]

I'll only say a couple of things in regards to this...

I've played on a lot of tables in a lot of places. I've played in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bahrain, and too many states in the states to mention.

I've played on tables done by RKC, and they play nicely. I played on the killer table at Dave's place near Seattle, The golden Ram or whatever. A diamond with 4" pockets and I was one of the few who got to play nineball on it too.

I liked it better than most diamonds I've played on...

But I have to say that hands down, the best table I've played on was a tight Gold Crown done by Ernesto and while I've been out of the mechanic business for a long time, and wouldn't compare myself to Ernesto or RKC, I used to redo tables all the time back in the day when me and a buddy who owned the pool hall I worked at started a business selling and delivering pool tables in the inland empire.

The only other thing I'll say is that it isn't all that telling what a customer thinks of the job you do in any business.

I've known carpet layers, painters, fram builders and woodworkers who had customers that thought they were the absolute shit, but they weren't all that special.

Just look at cue builders, there are a lot of cue builders out there that have loyal customers, but if you really want to know how good a cue maker is, ask the other cuemakers...

And believe me, the best of a given trade may know they're the best, but you'll rarely hear them say that they are the best, and you will definitely hear others say they are the best. If the peanut gallery of table mechanics aren't jumping up to say Glen is the best, then one of two things is the case, either his self indulgent attitude makes it so they don't want to, or he isn't and just has an inflated opinion of himself.

I'm not in a position to say which is the case because I'm not a great table mechanic, but I think that Glen could go a long way to reducing the negativity with an attitude adjustment.

I"ve had to adjust my attitude in many respects over my short life and I feel it has made me a better person and more likeable and it has definitely made me a happier person.

I just hope Glen finds a way to be a little less callous towards other mechanics and a little less self agrandizing.

Jaden

p.s. the way Glen responds to this post may not be very telling of how good a mechanic he is, but it is definitely telling of what type of character he has.

 

[realkingcobra]

And believe me, the best of a given trade may know they're the best, but you'll rarely hear them say that they are the best, and you will definitely hear others say they are the best. If the peanut gallery of table mechanics aren't jumping up to say Glen is the best, then one of two things is the case, either his self indulgent attitude makes it so they don't want to, or he isn't and just has an inflated opinion of himself.

p.s. the way Glen responds to this post may not be very telling of how good a mechanic he is, but it is definitely telling of what type of character he has.

Jaden, would you like to hear from other "Peanut Gallery" mechanic's as to how much I've influenced their work? Because if that is what it would take for you to understand that this is not about me and my skills, but about changing the industry as a whole, it wouldn't be a problem to get all the "Peanut Gallery" mechanics to come forward and reply in a post...believe me, I have just never asked that of them as of yet....but you could change my mind very easy including a straight across the board opinion of installing K66 cushions on GC rails as to if THEY feel it's correct or wrong...from coast to coast

Glen

PS. Jaden, think before you answer. On that table you played on up at the Golden Fleece, all I did was extend the rails and tighten the pockets to 3 7/8" inch, I didn't change the way the table played overall, but I could have, and had I done that....believe me, it would have been a one of a kind, but that wasn't my place to do that to....at that time, so I left it alone, for reasons I'm not going to explain right now.

 

[UrackmIcrackm]

this is not about me and my skills, but about changing the industry as a whole .

How is puffing out your chest and tooting your horn going to better the industry?

it wouldn't be a problem to get all the "Peanut Gallery" mechanics to come forward and reply in a post...believe me, I have just never asked that of them as of yet....but you could change my mind very easy including a straight across the board opinion of installing K66 cushions on GC rails as to if THEY feel it's correct or wrong...from coast to coast.

::edit::

I didn't change the way the table played overall, but I could have, and had I done that....believe me, it would have been a one of a kind

It is arrogance like this that turns people off. Everyone is different but myself and a few others tend to prefer people who let their work speak for themselves. When someone (anyone, not just you) feels the need to say how great they are every time they open their mouth and shove it down my throat, I recoil. My intial reaction is "ew".

I understand that you've had your moments where you've done something nice for someone but your "in your face arrogance" over shadows that (for me).

Unlike Hu, I don't know anything about the mechanics of a table, nor do I want to know but I can certainly agree with him about your personality. What I do know is that regardless of the work performed, I prefer to listen to and be around someone more down to earth and humble like Ernesto or as personable as Mark Gregory than someone that is boisterously going to tell me how great they are.

 

[realkingcobra]

How is puffing out your chest and tooting your horn going to better the industry?


It is arrogance like this that turns people off. Everyone is different but myself and a few others tend to prefer people who let their work speak for themselves. When someone (anyone, not just you) feels the need to say how great they are every time they open their mouth and shove it down my throat, I recoil. My intial reaction is "ew".

I understand that you've had your moments where you've done something nice for someone but your "in your face arrogance" over shadows that (for me).

Unlike Hu, I don't know anything about the mechanics of a table, nor do I want to know but I can certainly agree with him about your personality. What I do know is that regardless of the work performed, I prefer to listen to and be around someone more down to earth and humble like Ernesto or as personable as Mark Gregory than someone that is boisterously going to tell me how great they are.

Find a quote were I say how great I am, that I'm the best, the nuts, better mechanic than anyone out here....FIND IT I raise the level of other mechanic...so that THEY can do better, so that OTHER mechanics have a better understanding of what it is to do this kind of work correctly....that, you'll find plenty of

Glen

PS. I know Mark Gregory personally and have spent quite a bit of time with him, and talk with him almost daily on the phone, do you know him...or just of him?

 

[scruffy1]

I really try and stay from away from these things as hard as possible but i can not
now. I have been very involved in this industry for a very long time and have
seen just about everything out there. I have worked on tables from 100 dollars to 150k all over this country and another, so believe me when i say this. Glen is the most knowledgeable mechanic you will possibly find.Period.

Glen does not need defending from any of his fellow mechanics.We know he is the real deal. Glen has never hesitated to help one of us solve a problem
or share his plethora of knowledge with any one on here. Has anyone heard or seen a dissatisfied customer of Glens? To my knowledge they do not exist.


Hu, i think your problem with Glen began with the Ernesto problem. While i probably would of kept this a little off record,this was and still is a serious
problem with his modifications. Do you understand what was being done to them? My friends at Brunswick could not believe this when told. Glen believes in his expertise as well as i and many of the other mechanics on this forum and are behind him 100 percent.

 

[perfectpocketz]

Look guy's there is absolutely no reason for everyone to jump on anyone here, Glen is trying so hard to help change the work ethics of the guy's out here doing pool tables for customers. The info he provides on here has help so many mechanic, as the customers themselves. Bottom line, Wall Street never gets up in the morning and says, well lets see how well pool tables are selling today.

Glen does have a different way to express his emotions, and you either accept Glen for the hard work he does everyday or you don't. He truly doesn't mean any harm to anyone, he just loves trying to better the industry more than anything else.

Trust me, big corps. that manufacture the pool tables only care about the sale of their product, after that you're on your own.
Glen is trying so hard to make the customer aware of the real problems of the tables.

I've told Glen many times that people are taking things out of context when you post pics. of your work.
I've made a lot of mistakes in the past on tables, and have learned a great deal talking with Glen.

Glen gets so excited about new ways of making pool tables play a lot better, and just wants to share the work, and his knowledge
of how it was done with pics. (THAT'S ALL IT REALLY IS ABOUT)

I agree, Glen can be stubborn, or sound arrogant at times, but he is so excited to find new ways of helping the industry grow.
Glen lives in his truck to work on pool tables, now how much love for pool tables is that?????

He don't care about the money, he cares more of the customers being happy, and saying wow that's a great job.

Glen really is a good guy, and has thought me more in the last year than I could have ever imagined.
I don't want to offend anyone here, and I'm not on anyones side, I just think what Glen is trying to share may not be for everyone, so let's all try to help the industry together, and when he post something, he truly from his heart is only trying to show something in a good manor, not to show look at me.

Working on tables day after day really get old when you go out and recover a table that some guy did before, charged $80 and screwed the table up so badly, you just want to scream. Guy's like Glen stay and fix all the problems and don't charge any extra.

There are a lot of us that do this for customers, but Glen posts his work for the other mechanics to see and learn from.

He's not looking for praise, he looking to make people aware, and not get ripped off by people posing as top mechanics.

There are a lot of pool table mechanics out their, some good, some not so good, but if the public is made aware of the good and bad, well there would be a lot more work for the really good ones.

Hope everyone has a great day, and hope we can all set are own pride aside and appreciate others hard work.

Mark Gregory

 

[PoolTable911]

I've played on a lot of tables in a lot of places. I've played in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bahrain, and too many states in the states to mention.

I've played on tables done by RKC, and they play nicely. I played on the killer table at Dave's place near Seattle, The golden Ram or whatever. A diamond with 4" pockets and I was one of the few who got to play nineball on it too.

I liked it better than most diamonds I've played on...

But I have to say that hands down, the best table I've played on was a tight Gold Crown done by Ernesto and while I've been out of the mechanic business for a long time, and wouldn't compare myself to Ernesto or RKC, I used to redo tables all the time back in the day when me and a buddy who owned the pool hall I worked at started a business selling and delivering pool tables in the inland empire.

The only other thing I'll say is that it isn't all that telling what a customer thinks of the job you do in any business.

I've known carpet layers, painters, fram builders and woodworkers who had customers that thought they were the absolute shit, but they weren't all that special.

Just look at cue builders, there are a lot of cue builders out there that have loyal customers, but if you really want to know how good a cue maker is, ask the other cuemakers...

And believe me, the best of a given trade may know they're the best, but you'll rarely hear them say that they are the best, and you will definitely hear others say they are the best. If the peanut gallery of table mechanics aren't jumping up to say Glen is the best, then one of two things is the case, either his self indulgent attitude makes it so they don't want to, or he isn't and just has an inflated opinion of himself.

I'm not in a position to say which is the case because I'm not a great table mechanic, but I think that Glen could go a long way to reducing the negativity with an attitude adjustment.

I"ve had to adjust my attitude in many respects over my short life and I feel it has made me a better person and more likeable and it has definitely made me a happier person.

I just hope Glen finds a way to be a little less callous towards other mechanics and a little less self agrandizing.

Jaden

p.s. the way Glen responds to this post may not be very telling of how good a mechanic he is, but it is definitely telling of what type of character he has.

Jaden,
Very good post. I am a table mechanic who has been in the industry for 18 + years. I've been around dozens of other guys in our trade. My inspiration in becoming a mechanic came from watching the late, great Al Conte work on tables in my pool room. He was an incredible man and top notch mechanic. Always willing to share his knowlage with others. Spent countless hours just talking with him.
Glen does have an arogance about him. And it can rub some people the wrong way. He has a big heart & will give 100% attention to anyone who calls on him without hesitation at anytime day or night. I know this because I have called him day & night. Without ever meeting me he has helped me through problems over the phone. I finally met him in Alsip, Il. for the mechanics seminar. Myself and the crew I went out with learned alot in a short amount of time. Little tricks here and there. He did not charge anyone.
I know there are other great mechanics out there. Mark Gregory, Ernesto D, Jay Spielberg, Shane Johnson, Donny Wessels etc... But right now Glen has stepped forward to try and bring a group together. He may need to tone it down a notch, but his work is that good. I just wanted to give you a "peanut gallery" point of view. :wink:

 

[realkingcobra]

Jaden, Hu, and the rest of you that think I only beat my own drum, you guys don't really know anything about me or what I'm all about. But maybe these next 4 pictures will give you some insight as to why I'm not worried about being the worlds BEST mechanic, as it seems that's what you guys are hung up on.









Do any of you know who that is working on the pool table?????????? His name is Clark, and he's the OWNER of Malarkey's Pool & Brew in Tacoma, WA. He asked me if I'd teach him how to work on his own tables so he wouldn't have to hire the mechanics in this area to work on them anymore. Not only am I NOT charging him to learn how to recover his own tables....I'M PAYING HIM $100 A TABLE FOR THE WORK HE'S LEARNING HOW TO DO, ON HIS OWN TABLES!!

Yeah guys, I'm really hung up on myself right, stick that in your pipes and smoke it!

Glen, the "Realkingcobra"

 

[mullyman]

Who said you can't work on tables other than Diamond? Whoever said it must have meant that you can't work on other tables because you are employed by Diamond. If they meant that you don't know how to work on anything other than Diamond tables then they're flat out retarded. A pool table is a pool table. It doesn't matter what brand name is on it. There may be different parts at different places but saying you don't know how to work on anything other than a Diamond, to me, is like saying a Ford mechanic wouldn't know how to work on a Chevy. It's just stupid.
MULLY
great job on the table BTW

 

[Jaden]

You tell me to stick it in my pipe and smoke it....

Jaden, Hu, and the rest of you that think I only beat my own drum, you guys don't really know anything about me or what I'm all about. But maybe these next 4 pictures will give you some insight as to why I'm not worried about being the worlds BEST mechanic, as it seems that's what you guys are hung up on.

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Do any of you know who that is working on the pool table?????????? His name is Clark, and he's the OWNER of Malarkey's Pool & Brew in Tacoma, WA. He asked me if I'd teach him how to work on his own tables so he wouldn't have to hire the mechanics in this area to work on them anymore. Not only am I NOT charging him to learn how to recover his own tables....I'M PAYING HIM $100 A TABLE FOR THE WORK HE'S LEARNING HOW TO DO, ON HIS OWN TABLES!!

Yeah guys, I'm really hung up on myself right, stick that in your pipes and smoke it!

Glen, the "Realkingcobra"

Glen, If you look in the threads where people have talked about your work, you'll see that I've always defended your quality of work. I've always talked good about your work. Even in this last post that you obviously took offense to, I was talking good about your work. The problem I have is not with your work. It's with the attitude that you put out.

Don't talk down about other mechanics. Especially one as respected and loved as Ernesto. It's just not right. If your work is so good, and according to many it is, and your knowledge is soo great, which many seem to proclaim it is, then there is not a need to talk down about other people's work. There's not a need to state that you're going to change the industry, who the hell are you to change the industry?

I can understand if you were to say something like, I'm working with some of the top mechanics in the industry to try and standardize pool table mechanics practices. But to say, "I'm going to change the industry so we don't have so many incompetent people doing crazy things" Is just self aggrandizing and comes off as petty and ridiculous. You don't have the power to control the industry and I"m not sure many would like it if you did.

Now, if you were to start a nationwide mechanics coporation and try to take over the industry then that's a different story, but from what has been stated by a couple of your customers it doesn't seem you have the business accumen to pull it off. If you can, more power to you.

All of your bad mouthing in the world isn't going to change the number of people who like the way Ernesto's tables play and it just makes you look petty and dumb.

So you don't like that he uses k66 cushions on brunswicks, whooptee dooo.

I don't like the idea of sport tae kwan do over traditional, all my wanting in the world isn't going to stop the millions who practice sport tae kwan do because it isn't going to take away the reason that people like sport tae kwan do.

You're not going to be able to take away the reason that people like playing on tables redone by Ernesto, so why do you continue to dog him and his work?

Just focus on doing the job the way you want and keep your mouth shut and life will go soo much smoother for you. That was a hard lesson for me to learn and it's finally sunk its teeth in. I hope for your sake that you can do the same.

Jaden

 

[realkingcobra]

Glen, If you look in the threads where people have talked about your work, you'll see that I've always defended your quality of work. I've always talked good about your work. Even in this last post that you obviously took offense to, I was talking good about your work. The problem I have is not with your work. It's with the attitude that you put out.

Don't talk down about other mechanics. Especially one as respected and loved as Ernesto. It's just not right. If your work is so good, and according to many it is, and your knowledge is soo great, which many seem to proclaim it is, then there is not a need to talk down about other people's work. There's not a need to state that you're going to change the industry, who the hell are you to change the industry?

I can understand if you were to say something like, I'm working with some of the top mechanics in the industry to try and standardize pool table mechanics practices. But to say, "I'm going to change the industry so we don't have so many incompetent people doing crazy things" Is just self aggrandizing and comes off as petty and ridiculous. You don't have the power to control the industry and I"m not sure many would like it if you did.

Now, if you were to start a nationwide mechanics coporation and try to take over the industry then that's a different story, but from what has been stated by a couple of your customers it doesn't seem you have the business accumen to pull it off. If you can, more power to you.

All of your bad mouthing in the world isn't going to change the number of people who like the way Ernesto's tables play and it just makes you look petty and dumb.

So you don't like that he uses k66 cushions on brunswicks, whooptee dooo.

I don't like the idea of sport tae kwan do over traditional, all my wanting in the world isn't going to stop the millions who practice sport tae kwan do because it isn't going to take away the reason that people like sport tae kwan do.

You're not going to be able to take away the reason that people like playing on tables redone by Ernesto, so why do you continue to dog him and his work?

Just focus on doing the job the way you want and keep your mouth shut and life will go soo much smoother for you. That was a hard lesson for me to learn and it's finally sunk its teeth in. I hope for your sake that you can do the same.

Jaden

Jaden, I've never in my wildest dreams thought I could change the industry by myself, yes...it starts with the mechanics, AND the table manufactures, as well as cushion and cloth manufactures. And to bring about that change, it takes awareness. It take more than someone standing up and yelling..."this is wrong, and so is that"....because at the same time, you have to provide answers as to WHY this or that is wrong, as well as solutions to the wrong, THAT way the industry can not only see what is wrong, but how to fix it. And THAT is how you change this industry...for the better. You have to start from the bottom and work your way up, and that's what I've been doing, working my way up. But, not without drawing some attention, because it takes the customers to also be a part of this change, as they're the ones who are going to have to buy into this change....since they're the ones that keep this industry employed, but believe me when I tell you...they're tired of getting screwed over....by the LACK of change....for the better.

Glen

 

[Donny Wessels]

I'm a student of Glen's. I have to say he's by far the best mechanic that I've seen. Because of Glen, I'm doing things now, that I only dreamed of doing a few years ago.