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@beneaththesur those panels look nice, I just think some 45 degree cables to suspend it (and even just having it hanging in space in the great room) is not going to fly. I've actually got some 4' narrow panels (from aquariums) I may stick up there just for reference to see how the shadows...

@mvp: Type recommendations? They offered just "to match color of cloth" without saying type. @denwhit, @cronk and @beneaththesur: Lighting, yes. We have 12' ceilings above the table and it is in a great room, and at least as a first pass I am going to try installing gimbaled eyeballs in cans...

Buying a new table (Canada Billiards Stainless 9'), placing order probably monday. Haven't had a table for 12 years, and even then did not pay all that much attention to the details. Long drive to the nearest billiards store. So for someone who basically knows that the table should have the...

Ah.... Long ago I just unscrewed my 2 section queue. Lots to learn. :eek:

Yeah... I just want to see if I can actually hit the cue ball and have it go in the general direction I am after all this time without a table. Jumping is a bit further down the line! (You mean the cue ball, right? Not that I jump over the furniture and shoot at the same time? I guess...

ceebee, thanks; I love math is it helps remove the "close enough" ambiguity. :) It's that last part that I know the least about; not having shot for 12 years, how often one is shooting nearly flat. The good news is that with the less long console, the area where a ball would lie that puts...

Thanks everyone, I feel a bit reassured. We finally agreed on a console, and settled on one that is not as long so does not extend as far into the cue swing area. There's probably only about half a square foot overlap. I'm already working on lowering the legs to get it down to just an inch...

Planning for a new table, and the table will have 60" of clearance all the way around (from the playing surface edge). Might be able to get 61". Except in one corner of the table, there is a china hutch planned that is low (and not yet purchased). There's ample room to stand and shoot, but we...

Hmmm... that's an interesting thought. I hoped a few might be here (of the manufacturer, but who knows, maybe of the retailer). I would not have thought they would give out customer names, but maybe they would (of course ones they think are happy so it's a bit skewed). Can't hurt to ask...

Well, SW Florida has no hills, but we certainly have plenty of drunks (and maybe even Hillbillies have to retire somewhere?). I'll take a little extra care then. Thanks.

@kid, thanks; my post above was overlapping yours, sorry. That sounds encouraging. I'm not sure what makes a commercial table commercial, but ours certainly is for occasional use as a home table. And yes, they say they will do height - 30, 31, 32. I think my wife is set on the 31"...

Thank you both, really. I prefer a cranky answer to none by far. :wink: Indeed cranky people usually tell the truth without spin. I've now been to both dealers and looked at numerous tables. The height issue is indeed what we have spent most time on. Most conversions I have seen run about...

Did I ask in a bad place, is there more appropriate forum? Or is the subject not appropriate to the site?

After a number of years without a table at all, my wife and I may have agreed on a path forward. To work, we need to get a table that realistically converts to a dining table, and must look like nice furniture. For me it must be a nice table as well, 8' or preferably 9'. After a lot of web...

Hello from SW Florida, help me buy a table Hello from SW Florida. We had a nice pool table for many years in Virginia, and left it behind when we moved to Florida (it was 9', and we literally built the room to hold it so we sold it with the house). Now after a dozen years without, we are...