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WNT Florida Open: New Cloth Color?
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dreamhouse
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I’m a big fan of the dusty pink cloth, it’s easy on the eyes and just an attractive color in my opinion. Great look for a home table, and I think the Florida Open would be the perfect event to have their own unique “pink” felt color.
The main pro Korean 3c organization, PBA, has some insanely horrid clotth colors through time and I asked my Korean peeps wtf?
They said it was to align with the events' main sponsors...one was a shampoo/ body wash and I forget the others.
There was color coordinated signage placement too...clearly bringing in that outside money and don't see any indication that is at play for the Em.
I can kinda see that, a little Miami Vice flavor.
Long ago I read an article about an event which occurred some time in the 1930’s. Three cushion billiards was big, and an organizing body of the game approached some color specialists—there are such people, and they know what they are doing—and asked them what color the cloth and balls in billiards would be ideally. The experts advised that the optics would be optimal if the cloth were a medium or light blue. The two cue balls should be a yellow dark enough to build a contrast with the cloth. The red ball should remain red but perhaps be a little darker. I believe I read that, following this recommendation, the next championship was actually played on such equipment.
Of course the experts who gave this advice had to consider only two colors of object balls. The blue tennis courts of pro tennis with the yellow balls offer the same limited problem.
The traditionalist in me—a main core of my personality—can’t help but reflect that green cloth represents how the game of billiards began. Billiards was an attempt, I believe, to bring games similar to croquet indoors. You can see this in old prints of tables with hoops and other hazards on the table.
My own suggestion would be to keep the traditional colors of the balls but to make the CLOTH a lighter shade of green. I think this would obviate the problems with seeing the edges of the darker balls.
Of course the experts who gave this advice had to consider only two colors of object balls. The blue tennis courts of pro tennis with the yellow balls offer the same limited problem.
The traditionalist in me—a main core of my personality—can’t help but reflect that green cloth represents how the game of billiards began. Billiards was an attempt, I believe, to bring games similar to croquet indoors. You can see this in old prints of tables with hoops and other hazards on the table.
My own suggestion would be to keep the traditional colors of the balls but to make the CLOTH a lighter shade of green. I think this would obviate the problems with seeing the edges of the darker balls.
JasonATX
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I like the blue, but I have come to find that I prefer green if there are perimeter lights.
I redid my gold crown with dusty pink recently and it is far and away one of the easier-on-the-eyes colors i've ever played on. i've played on tourny blue, shark gray, and blue-green for substantial hours. dont knock it till youve tried it. im super excited for this; maybe simonis will start making dusty pink HR
I saw a pic online somewhere of it on and actual table and it looks way better than I expected. The swatch looked really different on the simonis site. (It’s a simonis fabric)
Here is my table. Been meaning to make a thread to showcase it cause I did a repaint too
a gibson sg, a banjo and a balalaika. do you have a russian bluegrass-metal band?
I have an instrument buying problem.
. been thinning the herd for some time now.jnwilliams
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what is the acoustic in the top left?
Seagull; not sure the exact model. It's a sub brand of Godin, great intermediate affordable guitars. my main instrument is bass but i still appreciate a decent guitar
jnwilliams
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I noticed "My main instrument is bass"
I'm familiar with Seagull. Not sure why I didn't recognize it. Love the look of the room. Serious question- Thought about hanging my guitars up like that..... How do you keep the dust off of them? Dust them weekly?
very kind of you to assume I clean proactively! More like i dust them off when i play them, which is fairly seldom. I have a Martin that is worth some coin (inherited) and that lives in a case. imo dust doesnt hurt things too much so its not a big deal to me; not to mention that most of my instruments are n the sub $500 range of value.I noticed "My main instrument is bass"
I'm familiar with Seagull. Not sure why I didn't recognize it. Love the look of the room. Serious question- Thought about hanging my guitars up like that..... How do you keep the dust off of them? Dust them weekly?
jnwilliams
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I find it such a PITB to dust guitars unless you are changing the strings, which I do fairly regular. lots of area under the strings. Looks great tho!
Once they get big enough you stop caring about silly things like “girl colors”****ALERT******: "Would all the men who said they like pink cloth please report for a testicle check. Yours may be missing"
They just need to bring their man card to turn it in. Excommunicado****ALERT******: "Would all the men who said they like pink cloth please report for a testicle check. Yours may be missing"