Recent content by Pierre Shakes

The photo may come through this time.

There are 20 different colours of cloth in my very different pool all. I had never had Simonis Apple green before. I find it loud and garish; "English" green is grass green, snooker green and more harmonious. The table is the Rasson 9' Ironman - the least expensive of their line. The slate...

The two snooker tables got some use during the day, but at night they stood empty. Most nights we have a waiting list for pool tables at some time; Friday and Saturday for 5 or 6 hours. The snooker tables were costing me tens of thousand$ a year. A great shame, really, in the hometown of Cliff...

I had the painter - Anne Ehrlich - that did my 8’x10’ vanGogh with a billiard table thirty years ago when she was 17, do another vG. This time the Wheatfield with Crows at 12’x6’. It is out in the patio of the biz because there is no more room for large art inside. It took her 50 hours. She was...

I had a mix in my 25 table room of: 10/8’s, 13/9’s, 2/10’s & 2/12’s.Then I realized that the computer system kept track of the $ spent on each table. So I selected the last two years when tables were in the same places. The 9’s generated the most money The 10’s & 12’s were next. Then the 8’s...

I made 23 of these shelf units that hold the excess balls in 9-ball/10-ball. (Okay, maybe not needed because you can easily leave six ball in six pockets.) Actually, my son did most of the work, but the design was mine. The tops are whatever leftover hardwoods that came to hand after 50 years...

I'm glad/sorry to see NPR gone. I liked the idea... but many couldn't be civil. It leaves me with a lower image of pool players. I didn't see a notification of it ending. Was there one? Thanks for your work. David

I’m so glad to see some others have tried multiple colours of cloth; I have been so lonely. I have also used a different colour of rail cloth, generally out of economy. Yellow rails and espresso bed looked best. Having a Hodge Podge of tables has the virtue of being inexpensive. Typically a...

It's not that I can't make up my mind... It is just so cheerful. And not boring.

Can you make a living on nine tables?

Peacock Billiards and the James Joyce Bistro in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Seems like a good price. I have one in perfect condition and I want $10,500USD. Your wife won't be happy with any of your Gold Crown styles, that is for sure. The third photo is a 9' with actual marquetry - $12,000USD includes a flaw.

I get bored watching players at 8ball and 9ball at my poolhall (9’ tables). So I put something on our Facebook page: “Play one-pocket free until 5pm. Limited time offer.” Dumb de dum dum. Kids and non-players were shown the basics and left alone. They started out just trying for their pocket...

garczar knows what he is talking about.

In 1984 - in desperation after 3 years of selling tables in a recession and recovering tables until 1am - I rented two fancy tables on what was supposed to be a table-sales floor at $7/hr when the existing snooker hall was charging $4.20. I made SweetFA but it showed that people would pay more...