You're 100% right about Mark and myself, as I can't sit in a shop and do what Mark does day in and day out, it would drive me nuts...it can take 6 months to refinish some of the tables he does, even longer. He does great work, second to none trust me. Myself on the other hand, I'm more concerned with the playability of the whole table, I don't care about refinishing them, I have no interest in that line of work, never have. I carry enough tools with me to do a complete job on a pool table on location, and finish up when I'm satisfied there's nothing more I can do to make the table better than it was to begin with.
Mark...he'll refinish a set of rails 4 damn times if that's what it takes to get the LOOK he's after...what a nut case....I'd have called it done after the first time I refinished the rails:thumbup:
What Mark and I both share in common....is the will to do the best we can possilbly do, and it has nothing to do with the time frame it takes to get the job done. Neither one of us likes to be rushed, or pushed to meet a schedual....we don't perform well under those circumstances, because it kind of forces us to finish up faster than we'd planned on...and it don't always turn out like we'd hoped it would. We've both made mistakes, and that includes myself as well...LOL..BUT, it takes making mistakes to learn what NOT to do in the future, that's how you learn this job. So, once you start runing out of mistakes to make, you start getting the hang of just exactly what you want to do...and just exactly how to do it...THAT is what makes a great table mechanic, but to a lot of guys out here working at table mechanic's....they never learn from their mistakes so they just keep making them over and over again...yet sleep great at night with no thoughts what-so-ever about the jobs they've just finished up.
Glen
