Diamond red label vs blue

By the same token there are times getting a divorce may be the best decision you ever make. I'm happily remarried now and glad I got out of a toxic marriage.
As they say:
No good marriage ever ended in divorce.
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if you stay married but choose legal separation instead then it might just prevent a repeat occurrence of the same issue, and save on lawyers. I dont know the law there but here after 2 years of separation either can pay a lawyer to do the rest without much chance of it being contested. Probably best to see a lawyer your area to ask about it.
 
I'm the eternal optimist and since you brought it up. If there's any desire and/or chance of saving the marriage -- something as simple as a personality test helped ours quite a bit and we didn't do it until after 20 years together. I'm far from perfect, but the test finally showed my wife how off the charts she was in several categories. Making certain situations almost impossible to deal with. Okay -- enough of that stuff. Good luck.

Now the pool table thing -- I have no hope for the red labels, so I'd get rid of it. 😉
 
if you stay married but choose legal separation instead then it might just prevent a repeat occurrence of the same issue, and save on lawyers. I dont know the law there but here after 2 years of separation either can pay a lawyer to do the rest without much chance of it being contested. Probably best to see a lawyer your area to ask about it.
Its different for everyone, for us we just decided to go see a lawyer together and act in unison rather than to both hire lawyers o fight one another. the lawyer drew up papers to separate our assets, the rest we just left alone and it's been over 10 years anyway.. If one of us wanted to get remarried we could just pay the fees. I offered to pay my share if she wants to.. as expected, everything did not really feel entirely fair but I f we had taken it to a battle in court it may have come out a bit better or worse.. I'm quite sure the lawyers would have made more.. we had a unique situation where we both still acted somewhat amicably. It's not always that way, I know.
 
I have a 2001 red label 9 foot pro, Glen Hancock came in and reworked it for me in 2013 to blue label specs.

If your table is diamondwood like mine I would look into that route. They just don't make em like they used to.
 
I'm the eternal optimist and since you brought it up. If there's any desire and/or chance of saving the marriage -- something as simple as a personality test helped ours quite a bit and we didn't do it until after 20 years together. I'm far from perfect, but the test finally showed my wife how off the charts she was in several categories. Making certain situations almost impossible to deal with. Okay -- enough of that stuff. Good luck.

Now the pool table thing -- I have no hope for the red labels, so I'd get

I have a 2001 red label 9 foot pro, Glen Hancock came in and reworked it for me in 2013 to blue label specs.

If your table is diamondwood like mine I would look into that route. They just don't make em like they used to.
Yep, I've got the old dymondwood one. It doesn't play bad per se, but different, no doubt about that. I was able to play on it last night while dog sitting my own dog ( dammit). No hard spots on the rubber....just far less responsive is how I would describe it. I'll get em redone at some point....at some place...lol
 
Boys, it turns out it's the rails. Y'all already know this I'm sure, but I apparently have lived under a rock and became a pool hermit, only playing on my home 9 foot diamond pro red label table with standard pro cut pockets. For reasons not particularly pleasant to think about, I pretty much instantly find myself with more free time for pool, and the need to play anywhere but home. So I've been playing 10 ball at the local pool room on a tighter 9 foot diamond pro, now with new cloth, and man, the difference is night and day vs my home table. My home table breaks way way tougher for certain. The blue label rails are way way more responsive....I had thought my break was deficient, but not really....those blue label rails have the balls flying around everywhere....it's really fun. On my home table, the corner ball on the 10 ball rack doesn't get pocketed going four rails all that often....you really have to use a sledgehammer break to reliably get that to happen. And even then the ball approaches the pocket kinda sluggishly. On this blue label ...dayum, the four railer goes often, and goes in with a quickness. If it misses, I get extra feet of roll on the ball vs my home table. Wild.

Maybe if this divorce happens, and it looks like it will, I'll get a place and sell my red label and get a blue one. I'm using the break where the cue ball hops and drops center table ...at least if I do it right.

This blue label table is easier to play on too, despite having tighter pockets. It's all about the responsiveness of the rails. Break = ok, marriage= on life support. Shit. Oh well, might as well improve my game, at this point, it will give me something to keep my mind occupied. Carry on ...
Maybe some new rails for the home table?
 
Yep, I've got the old dymondwood one. It doesn't play bad per se, but different, no doubt about that. I was able to play on it last night while dog sitting my own dog ( dammit). No hard spots on the rubber....just far less responsive is how I would describe it. I'll get em redone at some point....at some place...lol
The cheap and easy fix for red label Diamonds is Championship rubber. Glen recommended it when I had customers that didn't want to spend the money on conversions or new rails. I've done several of them and they all ended up playing fine.
 
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