I'm just an amateur, but I just finished putting rubber on my table. After trying to be very precise with a wall-paper razor blade on my first facing, and finding that required far more skill than I would develop on this pool table, I pulled out my newly purchased bench-top sander. Making sure...
Well. It was a lot of work and worry, but this table is in pretty good shape. Pockets are tight, deep, and give a proper bounce to balls that aren't meant to go in. Really appreciate the advice you gave me, Glen. Building onto the subrails was definitely the right way to go to narrow the...
I have this 9' Gandy Sportsman table that I bought before I had a refined understanding of performance features, in 1999. It is basically well-made, but it has three performance problems that I have yet to correct.
The first problem is the pocket cut-outs in the slate. The corner cuts are...