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I agree that Brunswick has rested on it's name for a while. I'm not a fan of Brusnwick. And the earlier Gold Crowns must be more prominent in the north. I worked on my first GC1/2 the other day. I think it was a one. It had ball return which just made my day. I prefer Olhausen to Brunswick...

A local company use to sell a lot of 1peice tables. Once it was in your house they would not move it. Most of the time they would refer them to us. We would make a crazy bid for it and if they took it then good if not then even better. We were actually told 1 time we were the only one who...

backed slate is a peice of slate that has a wood bottom glued to it. It allows you to have your cloth Stapled compared to glued down. Which allows you to pull the cloth tighter. And it stays tigheter. Your wedges tend to stay in better. You can usually tell by looking into the pocket and...

I bet the parents screaming they'll hate their kids if they don't win is much more intertaining than watching 12year olds beating the crap out of each other on the ice. Actually both would be good. I can't stand sports anymore. When I'm in a house installing a pool table and they decide to...

I haven't been a big fan of anniversaries. Half the time they have been moved and recovered so much the backing is barely there. Many bolts are stripped or missing. The pockets are rotted. Along with the rails. I'm not sure if the anniverseries come with Superspeeds but I think we often end...

peer: It's funny though, one table I looked last night definitely had a slate, yet the balls were rolling on it as if it was particleboard -- even the sound gave away its cheapness; http://www.craigslist.org/pen/spo/149170554.html If you can hear the ball roll it is thin slate. Most likely...

I saw some of the 1pocket tournament on Thursday but I needed my butt handed to me in league so I had to go. Did anyone see it when Tommy (I think they were practicing but interesting anyways) pocketed 3balls in 1 shot? He knew it was luck but still funny. I love watching the 1pocket...

It depends on how hardcore of a pool player you are. Most people I found would probably not notice the difference if I set up a Carom table in their basement. There are things to look for. -First off you want to make sure your slate is not busted. Looking underneath the table will sometimes...

That would be me. Nah just kidding. He does do great work. Haven't had any table roll yet. But then again with the Gold Crown 4s once you get it right it generally stays right. I also saw he got that Snooker Table together at number 2. I can't stand those things. Especially moving them.

I have a Meucci Sneaky Pete with a Red Dot shaft I got for around $300. I like how it hits. And is the "Sneakiest" of the Sneaky Petes I have found. Nothing to identify it. Compared to a Lucasi sneaky. Of course a real player will spot any good sneaky easily but I like the concept of them...

Actually one of the reasons I don't enjoy working on them is because most of the time I'm working on them in a bar. And by the time a bar calls us the table would probably work better if you stuck a stick of dynamite to it.

I love diamond tables. I'm not a fan of working on them but I love to play on them. I want a table so bad it drives me nuts. And on top of that I'm looking at people's tables 3-4 times a day. Most of them having no business owning one.

Actually lifting to relevel isn't that bad. You just have to know the table. If it has partical board for blinds then you have to either take those off or do it by the frame. Most tables if built properly are ok to do that. But I assume you don't have a machinist level nor the knowledge of...

I'm a table mechanic without a table. So I work my butt off all day 6 days a week then go to the pool hall and blow my money there. Kind of sad I say. Our shop does have a 9' table we play on.

Considering Brusnwick nor many manufactures don't use it anymore I assume it isn't that great. It's very pourus. It'll suck liquid down faster than a frat house. I'm not exactly sure how it is made or what it is. My best guess is it's almost like a concrete type deal. Slate can vary. Your...

Ease up Slim Shady. I live in Atlanta and many of my friends are black. They use more racist terms than "Ghetto" about themselves than a Klan wizard. And if anybody should be offended by the word "Ghetto" it should be the Jews who where forced to live in a true ghetto. Not a...

I did a job not to long ago. It was a Gandy. Not sure of the model because it was ghetto rigged big time. The side blinds where not original but they matched. Unfortunatly the corner peices did not fit the new side blinds. We managed to get the corner peices to stay. They where held on by...

My very first time taking out my Shon I went to Cues 2. I never understood why pool halls never seem to have cue holders. Well I laid my stick against the table to break with a house cue. I looked at it for 5seconds and it didn't move. I get ready to break. It falls and hits the floor and...

A buddy of mine had a Nick Varner sneaky pete. Out of all sticks that could get stolen. A sneaky pete. It was at The Pool Room IPT tournament. Turns out my buddy got it back not to long ago. It was picked up on accident and the person who picked it up told another person at "The Pool Room"...

Good to know. I'll have to watch the movie again and study it. What do you know. Holllywood finally got something right. Of course that was form the era of Hollywood I admire. Where they actually cared about their work and not necesarrily how they are going to pack in the theatres. I...