my GC has been cobrasized

Does look B.E.A.utiful

Takes time to do the rails right.....and have them come out perfect......Glen is willing to put the extra time and labor in to the table and rails....that's why he's the best...but even more importantly...he knows what needs to be done to a table in order for that table to play correctly. The knowledge of rebuilding the rails correctly is not something just anyone can master.....Glen with out doubt is a great mechanic and rail specialist....now bring me my slate....or I'll tell the truth....LMAO

are you nuts
those pockets should be able to take 2 balls at a time and have about one half inch to spare
how do you expect to play pool with those miniature pockets

Wow. Beautiful.

Enjoy it.

Very nice work Glen. I Hope to see you soon

rich337 said:

all i can say is WOW this is the best playing GC i have ever played on by far. with new artemis rail rubbers and procut pockets and rebuilt rails i should have a great playing table for years to come Glenn is a great guy and mechanic and if your lucky enough to fet him to work on your table jump on it

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I've worked on some challenging GC's before, but yours was kind of in a league of it's own If you remember, I even asked you if you bought your table from someone in TX before I even got started

Glen

gorgeous..i'm always jealous of people who have the space for a table at home

Damn!
Glen hacked another GC!

Great lines!
I bet it plays jam up now.

Rich337 table looks great now just head Ole Glen down I-10 West into Texas.

...and from Texas straight into Florida

perfectpocketz said:

Takes time to do the rails right.....and have them come out perfect......Glen is willing to put the extra time and labor in to the table and rails....that's why he's the best...but even more importantly...he knows what needs to be done to a table in order for that table to play correctly. The knowledge of rebuilding the rails correctly is not something just anyone can master.....Glen with out doubt is a great mechanic and rail specialist....now bring me my slate....or I'll tell the truth....LMAO

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You'll get your slate....how many pieces would you like it in when it gets to your house?:grin-devilish:

William said:

...and from Texas straight into Florida

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huhhhhh....you call that a STRAIGHT line to Florida?

rich337 said:

a few more pics

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I'm going to tell all of you who are thinking about buying a used GC....of ANY model, pay attention now....

This was suppose to be a GC3 but....

1) The slates were from a GC1
2) The rails were from a GC3
3) The slate frame was a GC4
4) The pocket castings were GC1
5) The cushions were dead.
6) The mechanic that worked on the table installed steel L channel to support the frame of the GC4 to keep it from sagging, but used L channel so big that the balls were hitting the steel support as they were going into the foot corner pockets....it was a BALL RETURN table.

7) The slates were broke out on the surface at the pin & dowels in the seams...but NOT filled in...so there was craters UNDER the bed cloth in the seams.

8) The rail skirts were not even attached together in the corners, and one of the corner brackets was even missing.

9) The ball return drop box was mounted with the hardware...on the OUTSIDE of the ball drop box to the ball tray...with wood screws.

10) The pocket castings were loose and missing some of the treaded inserts in the ends of the rails to mount the pocket castings.

11) The pocket liners were not mounted with the machine screws, they were either nailed in...or just left loose, hanging in the pocket by the casting alone.

12) The ball returns were not mounted correctly, allowing balls to fall on the floor in the side pockets...and FOOT pockets.

13) The seams were separated in the joints.

14) The slate screws were to long, and so skinny that they didn't even hold the slates down to the frame.

15) Some of the rail bolts were missing, because the bolt holes didn't line up with the bolt hole insert in the rails, because the bolt hole pattern in the slates didn't match up with the bolt hole pattern in the rails.

16) The adjustable leg levelers on the table are not Brunswick's.

17) 12 of the rail bolts were to long by 1/4"

18) 4 out of 20 of the rail skirt bolts were missing.

19) The Brunswick emblem in the head rail was just laying in the rail, it fell out when I turned the head rail upside down because there was no mounting screws in it.

There's more that what I listed above that was wrong with the table as well, but the point is......

YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOUR BUYING WHEN YOU BUY A USED GOLD CROWN AFTER ITS BEEN IN A POOL HALL....UNTIL IT SHOWS UP AT YOUR HOUSE....AFTER YOU'VE ALREADY SPENT YOUR MONEY ON IT.......SO, BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!

Glen

Nice job. Thanks for posting.

rich337 said:

all i can say is WOW this is the best playing GC i have ever played on by far. with new artemis rail rubbers and procut pockets and rebuilt rails i should have a great playing table for years to come Glenn is a great guy and mechanic and if your lucky enough to fet him to work on your table jump on it

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20) Slate backer boards were missing a lot of mounting screws, leaving the backer boards free to move around under the slates.

21) The backer boards were overhanging the slate edge by almost 1/4" in some areas, and still had 2 different sets of staples left in the wood from not being pulled the last time the bed cloth was installed.

Which is why I took the slates, each one of them, outside and set them on my sawhorses, so I could pull all the left over staples out, and us my router to clean up the backer boards flush to the edge of the slate, and replace all the missing backer board mounting screws.

Glen

Well you know it had to happen, after working on what is probably the only unhacked GCII/III in the entire state of Texas. Be safe Glen, and may your next dozen jobs be as easy as mine.

Robin

beutiful work, table looks very nice.

hud