AMF Brunswick table

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Hi. I get confused on all Brunswick models. I’m looking to get a table. The owner says it’s an AMF Brunswick table. Does that make it a real Brunswick, or at least a decent table?
Also it’s dismantled. Each slate piece is 36x57” I presume that’s a 9x4.5?
Thanks for any help. Only photo he has is a stock one
 

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AMF and Brunswick were/are separate companies that, to my knowledge, never collaborated on a pool table. I could be wrong though.
 
rexus31 said:
AMF and Brunswick were/are separate companies that, to my knowledge, never collaborated on a pool table. I could be wrong though.
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Somewhere during a search i found an old article that said when B'wick Corp. first started buying boat co's that AMF built some GC's. Whether that's a solid fact i don't know but i've seen it stated in more than one place. Those old 60's GP's are cool as hell. Look like a table George Jetson would have had.
 
garczar said:
Somewhere during a search i found an old article that said when B'wick Corp. first started buying boat co's that AMF built some GC's. Whether that's a solid fact i don't know but i've seen it stated in more than one place. Those old 60's GP's are cool as hell. Look like a table George Jetson would have had.
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While that very well could be, the table the OP attached is no Gold Crown. I'd wager the seller has no idea what he's talking about.
 
I would ask for evidence the table was AMF. Maybe an older model. My AMF Grand Prix looks like a GC3.
 
rexus31 said:
While that very well could be, the table the OP attached is no Gold Crown. I'd wager the seller has no idea what he's talking about.
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The AMF commercial model did look very much like a Brunswick gold crown table. It was good enough for the men’s pro tour to play on them for a number of years, so I assume it was/is a decent playing table.

For that reason, someone might be forgiven for describing the table as an AMF/Brunswick, particularly if they were trying to sell it / talk it up.
 
ChrisinNC said:
The AMF commercial model did look very much like a Brunswick gold crown table. It was good enough for the men’s pro tour to play on them for a number of years, so I assume it was/is a decent playing table.

For that reason, someone might be forgiven for describing the table as an AMF/Brunswick, particularly if they were trying to sell it / talk it up.
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Yup, I'm well aware of AMF's second iteration of the Grand Prix in the 90's having played extensively on them back in the day. The construction was a little inferior to a Gold Crown but still a very nice playing table. The pic in the opening post (as provided by the seller) is not an AMF Grand Prix.
 
rexus31 said:
Yup, I'm well aware of AMF's second iteration of the Grand Prix in the 90's having played extensively on them back in the day. The construction was a little inferior to a Gold Crown but still a very nice playing table. The pic in the opening post (as provided by the seller) is not an AMF Grand Prix.
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My bad. I was referring to pt109's pic. OP's pic i have no clue about. Most likely a Playmaster. No Brunswick in that table.
 
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Pockets and corners and the dots around the table looks like an AMF Playmaster but the side skirts and legs are different.
 
Monti said:
Hi. I get confused on all Brunswick models. I’m looking to get a table. The owner says it’s an AMF Brunswick table. Does that make it a real Brunswick, or at least a decent table?
Also it’s dismantled. Each slate piece is 36x57” I presume that’s a 9x4.5?
Thanks for any help. Only photo he has is a stock one
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TABLE DOES NOT APPEAR BE A COMMERCIAL TABLE-
LIKE A GOLD CROWN OR GRAND PRIX-
"PROBABLY AMF OR BRUNSIWCK .... HOME VERSION WITH "JUMBO" POCKETS
I RECOMMEND YOU WAIT- GET A GOOD ,SOLID USED COMMERCIAL TABLE
YOU WILL ENJOY IT MORE
BUT IF YOU GO FOR THIS ONE,
DONT PAY MORE THAT $$ 500.00
JMO
 
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pt109 said:
They had some second lines, like Brunswick, that I‘m pretty sure, were farmed out….all inferior.
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The Pocket Billiard Lounge in Binghamton, NY had several AMF. Only a couple of them played decent. The locals tried to avoid them whenever possible.
 
hang-the-9 said:
Pockets and corners and the dots around the table looks like an AMF Playmaster but the side skirts and legs are different.
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Thanks for all the replies. Yes he has looked further into it and confirmed it is an amf playmaster. I am having trouble finding a decent priced 9 ft table around here in Quebec So I may go for this and reduce the pocket size. Apart from pockets is it fairly decent?
 
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