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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 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...

Are successful pool halls downtown or further out? And why? With examples from the last fifty years. By ‘downtown’ let me suggest that there is some other ‘nightlife' within walking distance. Movies, theaters, music, dancing, sports, restaurants, bars... Further out the rent is less (pool...

Win a rosewood cue!! Peacock Billiards Etc is offering a $95. rosewood cue to the person who can identify the most billiard, pool, and snooker related terms in the following story. I was in a foul frame of mind as I stood at the head of the queue, about to pocket the rest of my savings, when...

Hamlet on Billiards weary, stale, flat and unprofitable out of joint where did I leave best safety it must follow toys of desperation a questionable shape start from their spheres my slow leave most foul the play’s the thing outrageous fortune out of frame follow’d hard upon no man has aught of...

I posted the virtual tour seen on PeacockBilliards.com of my colourful poolhall last January and it has had two thousand hits from you guys and twenty comments. Thank you. Comments were mostly about the gallery of table styles and the price to play. But nobody mentioned the seven original or...

I bought this 9’ pool table from a guy who bought it over 20 years ago. He didn’t know who made it I can’t find any labels. It is proper marquetry with stained veneers. Anybody recognize this? I asked Blatt Billiards but got no answer. Italian?

I'm just returning Dufferin 1-piece HiRun cues because half of the new cues I put out for house use have broken ferrules after two months. When I got into business 42 years ago I was told that Dufferin was the largest maker of cues in the world - primarily the HiRun. Are Valley Supreme cues...

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Slate has been held in place the same way for about 150 years - wood screws into a wood frame with shims of playing cards or business cards ever since. Okay, plastic tapers with teeth are a small improvement. Is there anything more important than the level of the table? Around the year 2000...