I don't think there's anyone in this county with enough passion, or dumb enough to walk in Marks or my foot steps and take over rebuilding or refinishing pool tables to the level that we do. I've traveled all over this country, been to every major city there is, and seen the work done by so many table mechanics it's a joke. Yes, while there are some that can install the cloth pretty good, especially since I had a part in making the Simonis cloth installers DVDs, and it has shown a lot of installers my tricks of the trade which has greatly improved their skills installing cloth, the total rebuilding of pool tables is a dead art for the most part because it takes to much time for most to even try. The world of pool table mechanic's has never been about raising the dead, it's always been about making that money daily and don't take to long to make it because it'll slow down getting to the next job that pays. Cues, chalk, cloth, balls, racks, tips, and even pool tables have gotten better and better, and they all had to get better today if they want to stay afloat, competition is tuff, but it brings out the best. But Mark and I both agree, this entire industry has forgotten about what happens to all the pool tables out here once they've been sold to the customers. They don't care if the particle board backing on the slates won't hold staples anymore after about 5 cloth changes, they don't have to deal with the aftermath of that cheap way of attaching the bed cloth, the installers do. Table manufacturers for the most part, use the cheapest cushions too, and they KNOW they're going to go bad, some are even rock hard when the installers are setting up new pool tables, but they don't care...because they believe the.customers don't know shit about pool tables anyway, and they're right! And what's even more wrong, is that the installers don't really care either, just long as the job pays....and they can always get paid more if they have to come back and replace those dead ass cushions. Yet, there's still the knockers on AZ that would rather knock Diamond pool tables as junk pool tables, instead of giving them credit for being the only pool table manufacturer today that is putting 100% effort into making their.pool tables the best tables on the planet. Speaking from experience, Brunswick made a lot of design mistakes in their pool tables as well, the Cenntennials, Anniversaries, and Gold Crowns....all of them, are full of them...it's just that nobody really knows what to look for to see the mistakes, all they see is the assembled product. Cenntennials and Anniversaries had one of the worst rail to slate attachment designs I've ever had to fix, same as Mark....which is why when we rebuild rails...we don't put the same piss poor design back into the rails! Oh I know, how can I say that, they were the greatest pool tables ever built!!!! Well, let me just say that no matter how tight you bolted r he rails down to the slate....that never tightened the rails up for shit, all that ever did was pull the nut plate down to the slate...the rails were attached to the nut plates with WOOD SCREWS, which pulled out of the bottom of the rails ALL THE TIME, which in turn, left the rails loose...WOW! If only the market place knew as much about pool tables as Mark and I do, playing pool today might just be a much better world to play pool in!
