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The Tournament and TV Tournament sets are both made with the new DURAMITH resin / process and are identical except for the color used on a few of the TV balls.

I would like to thank Scott Lee for working with me this week. His "pool school" program was an excellent exercise for this 74 year old beginner to have a knowledgeable introduction into the critical aspects of what it takes to execute a correct and repeatable pool stroke .. and set me up with a...

The Centennials and Tournaments are made from different resins. The Centennials and the Aramith Super Pros are made from the same resin (and the Aramith Measle cue ball is also made from this same resin. The Tournament is the most recent / newest resin formulation (Duramith I believe) ...

Looks great .. must have been interesting getting it up to the 2nd floor level. Table has 3 piece slate then correct?

I built the light box and the ceiling mount escutcheon. The light box is built of 1 * 6" boards with oak cross pieces as hangers and 4 1*3" pieces of poplar as mounting struts inside. I mounted a 48" long * 12" wide LED wraparound fixture (cost $109) inside and hung it with SS 1/8" anchor chain...

Finally got my Diamond furniture model table installed about 4 weeks ago .. took longer than expected as they had shipped it without pockets (actually the wrong pockets). But all is well and we are really enjoying the addition. Was interesting watching them build it.

My understanding is that the angles were corrected .. the "problem" tables were the "red label" tables and all of the new tables (for several years now) are built to "Blue Label" standards and have the corrected angles. Just had my Diamond .. furniture model drop pocket table .. set up earlier...

I like the green a lot .. plenty bright with proper lighting .. no shadows. To me it looks elegant and .. right.

Kirkham only made the SS bodies and ss components in Poland .. some SS frames for special orders. But the cars were built and finished at Kirkham Motorsports. They started with a high tech specialty machine shop .. did repairs on a broad range of unique items. They came across the Polish Mig...

KIrkham Motorsports builds aluminum cobras ... 427's, 289FIA and I believe they added the slab side .. the car that was actually sold to the public. They sell aluminum bodies to Shelby American if Shelby gets an order for an aluminum bodied "continuation" car .. as they still sell the cobra but...

The racing version did ... I had this built to replicate as closely as possible the car I would have purchased in 1965 if I had the money back then in high school! The body was splashed on CSX2345 .. one of the original 5 FIA race cars.

esales.rugs.com is the web site. Whats nice about these rugs is that they are made from polyethylene fibers .. woven just like a traditional woolen rug at a factory in India or one of the other traditional oriental rug producing regions .. and they are always "on sale" so they are very...

Rug is 10' wide * 13' long. Works perfect for the 8' table .. which is 104" long.

View of the billiard room from the wet bar area.

I lived in Boston back in the early 1970's. Our neighborhood tavern was the Bull & Finch .. which was in the basement of a brownstone a couple of blocks from the State House across the street from the Boston commons. Would meet my girlfriend there 5 nights a week .. and we would meet people...