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Anyone know what's going on with Inside Pool Magazine's website? It looks as though the site was up and working just a few days ago. Now, it says that the site is parked with Godaddy.

Shout out to A Team Pool Table Service out of New York! https://www.newyorkbilliards.com Thanks for all you've done for us!

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Here we are more than a year after my initial post and the problem persists. Jeff has even upped his game. He's now offering table sellers a place to list their pool tables on his sites. I don't know about the rest of you, but, I'm sick and tired of this guy gobbling up business in my area...

Thank you! Down here in the south, we don't run across many Anniversaries or Centennials. The Anniversaries that I have run across have all had laminate. The grain structure of the wood in the OP's photos look more like mahogany than walnut. Good to know though. As for what brand of finish...

I don't want to get into a pissing match over which wood is which. It doesn't matter. What matters is, what's the best way to refinish it. Here's a link to an article I wrote in Inside Pool Magazine regarding antique pool tables: http://www.insidepoolmag.com/premium-new/julyaugustweb.pdf The...

Sorry... I was mistaken before. Centennial tables have rosewood. Anniversary tables have mahogany or laminate. I have seen a few with rosewood. But, I think someone swapped out the rails from a Centennial on them.

Yeah. That's mahogany. Not walnut. Similar properties as working with walnut (as far as finishes go) except, mahogany has a very open grain. For the best results, you'll want to use a paste grain filler first, followed by vinyl sealer, finally, either a pre-catalyzed or catalyzed lacquer...

Also, if you're going to do a lacquer finish, you'll need to use either a sanding sealer or a vinyl sealer. I prefer the latter.

Short of going to a UV-cured finish, the only thing that's going to slow down the scratches is time. Your finish HAS to cure to its optimum hardness.

First of all, water-based poly is CRAP! I don't believe I've ever seen a walnut Anniversary table. Typically, they were cherry with rosewood top rails. In either case, the original finish (assuming it doesn't have laminate rails, which were also common in later Anniversary productions)...

I, for one, would rather make SOME money, on my own, without the referrals, than to make ALL the money and enable the scam. It's called ETHICS.

Personally, I don't care if they know nothing about tables. I don't care if they know everything. I don't even care that they make money off "finder's fees". What I do care about is the overwhelming amount of deception that they engage in. I do care about them lying about where they're located...

For rail facings, I use Barge Cement. Can be found at Tandy Leather. Sometimes you can find it at shoe repair shops in toothpaste-size tubes. If you buy a quart of it, it'll run you about $35.00

What baffles me is that there aren't more installers and mechanics absolutely outraged by this. Is it just me or is everyone apathetic about this?

This may not be their first go around. But, first of all, they HAVE been around since at least 2009 (that's about the time frame where I first see their name being mentioned). That's 8 years at least! They aren't going anywhere as long as the customers think (from start to finish of the job)...

That looks great!

I know you did. I read through all of the threads about him. However, I'm both trying to inform others (that don't know) and plea to those that do know his tactics and antics to contact the authorities about this. If I call, I'm just one voice. They don't care to hear from me. They'd take it a...

Are you planning on leaving the frame whole or taking it apart?

I'm a new member here. I've got absolutely ZERO pull to have that done.