Another example of Texas table mechanic's!

[poolhustler]

Russ, I can only teach, I can't apply that knowledge in the student once I've left the building so to speak. What I'm a little mad at, on this table...is there is no excuse for this kind of sloppy workmanship. Customers deserve better work for their money, but customers need to know what's right and wrong as some sort of gage to go by. When a so called "great" table mechanic does work like this, it makes all the real "great" table mechanics look bad, that's just how I feel about it. If no one has any confidants in anyone working on their pool tables....WHY should pool room owners, or home owners care what-so-ever about the overall conditions of their pool tables...when good money spent, don't mean good work performed? I'm sick and tired of MY trade industry being taken so lightly that ANY one that works on pool tables....can call themselves a "Table Mechanic" in the same way that I call MYSELF...a "Table Mechanic"......if someone is going to be called a "Great Table Mechanic"...then I think by god...they should LIVE UP TO THAT CALLING, or be truthfull and let everyone know....they're just a cloth installer and not a table mechanic!!!!!

Glen

I understand how it all works Glen. I am just really dissapointed as I had spoke with you and arranged for you to do my table and you pawned it off on someone else at the last minute. I was expecting to get a top shelf job and I got second rate. Hope you are well and safe in all your travels.

 

[realkingcobra]

I understand how it all works Glen. I am just really dissapointed as I had spoke with you and arranged for you to do my table and you pawned it off on someone else at the last minute. I was expecting to get a top shelf job and I got second rate. Hope you are well and safe in all your travels.

Everything is running along just fine, and as I promised you, I WILL get out to Los Angeles for sales of Diamond's ProAm billiards table, and we'll get your table fixed up to where you're happy with it, I just can't pin down a date right now...but that day is coming soon.

Glen

 

[realkingcobra]

I am one of the lucky ones, yes Glen set up my Diamond. That is not why I am lucky.....I am lucky for getting to know him, he is one cool cat and a riot to talk pool with.

He has ideas and plans for the pool industry that may or may never happen but if I were a betten man I would bet on Glen. I will also recommend, boast about and take a day or two off of work to get a chance to help him on his mission when ever he passes through the Rocky Mountains.

Cobra I owe you a call, just to BS.

When I come and visit with you Jim, I'm going to let you use all my tools to work on your pool table and bring it up to date....while I drink coffee and tell you want to do at each step of the way...at no charge on my end:slap:

 

[poolhustler]

Everything is running along just fine, and as I promised you, I WILL get out to Los Angeles for sales of Diamond's ProAm billiards table, and we'll get your table fixed up to where you're happy with it, I just can't pin down a date right now...but that day is coming soon.

Glen

Glen,

You know that I don't harbor any ill will toward you. I was just dissapointed in how my table turned out given the high expectations that I had after seeing your work. Did'n't work out that way, shit happens and life goes on. Lesson learned!!

Russ....

 

[tattoosbyjay]

there is a room by me in south jersey called hot shots it has a few gold crowns and around ten diaomd tables the cloth is like this on almost all of them you can pick the cloth right up with your fingers same with the rails real shame its not a bad room just really really bad playing tables all the facings need redonthe on the brunswicks , i sure wish you could teach his guy how to do table right

 

[GoldCrown]

Everyone does not have equal skills. Most consumers use the Yellow pages or ask around and get a bad referral. Custom work does not come off of the shelf in a shoe box. Good/great table mechanics are real hard to find....and how does the table owner know what they are getting until the job is done. Recourse is worthless if the job is bad from the start.
I learned from AZB.....find the right Mechanic. Do it right the first time. Never make a decision based on PRICE. Most quality jobs are competitively priced anyway. Find the best and wait for them. You will get years of pleasure from a well done table set up. My original installation was done by 2 mediocre mechanics. I lived with a piss poor job for years. I just had my GC IV by a gentleman I found here. Wish I knew about him in 1998.

 

[realkingcobra]

Everyone does not have equal skills. Most consumers use the Yellow pages or ask around and get a bad referral. Custom work does not come off of the shelf in a shoe box. Good/great table mechanics are real hard to find....and how does the table owner know what they are getting until the job is done. Recourse is worthless if the job is bad from the start.
I learned from AZB.....find the right Mechanic. Do it right the first time. Never make a decision based on PRICE. Most quality jobs are competitively priced anyway. Find the best and wait for them. You will get years of pleasure from a well done table set up. My original installation was done by 2 mediocre mechanics. I lived with a piss poor job for years. I just had my GC IV by a gentleman I found here. Wish I knew about him in 1998.

I consider most table mechanics to have good intent, it's only bad intent if they refuse to learn to do their job better when the chance presents itself to learn to do it better...and they refuse the offer

Glen

 

[ArizonaPete]

When I come and visit with you Jim, I'm going to let you use all my tools to work on your pool table and bring it up to date....while I drink coffee and tell you want to do at each step of the way...at no charge on my end:slap:

Wow, what a great offer. I'd love to have Glen teach me how to correctly cover a table. Glen, you're a true gentleman. Jim, you're a lucky guy. Let us know how things work out for youl.

 

[GoldCrown]

I consider most table mechanics to have good intent, it's only bad intent if they refuse to learn to do their job better when the chance presents itself to learn to do it better...and they refuse the offer

Glen

RKC..you are a real plus to the trade. Thanks for being a sharing and quality person...

 

[Cuebuddy]

Wow, what a great offer. I'd love to have Glen teach me how to correctly cover a table. Glen, you're a true gentleman. Jim, you're a lucky guy. Let us know how things work out for youl.

I can do that! Glen throws his heart and soul at his jobs and those jobs are not always pool related. He cooks a mean chicken also.:yes:

 

[SpiderWebComm]

There's no way the cloth was bumped like that. No doubt the cloth was loose, but it looks like rkc lumped it for the picture A mongoloid wouldn't leave the cloth lumped like that.

Glen is the best there is. I also think the cloth was manipulated for the picture.

If it wasn't, well....it's pretty embarrassing.
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[realkingcobra]

There's no way the cloth was bumped like that. No doubt the cloth was loose, but it looks like rkc lumped it for the picture A mongoloid wouldn't leave the cloth lumped like that.

Glen is the best there is. I also think the cloth was manipulated for the picture.

If it wasn't, well....it's pretty embarrassing.
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uuuhhh...nope, I didn't touch the bed cloth...that's how it was when I first looked at the table, but it's all good, I'm working with the mechanic doing some training with him before I leave TX...which will be soon, because I'm almost done here. Then, he'll have a much better idea as to what he's doing, the rest is just practice...practice, and more practice. He really does care about the work he does, but as I've said before...there's just no where to learn this trade the right way first, which is why everyone is left to either learn on their own, or from someone else...who don't know whats right either.

Glen

 

[SpiderWebComm]

uuuhhh...nope, I didn't touch the bed cloth...that's how it was when I first looked at the table, but it's all good, I'm working with the mechanic doing some training with him before I leave TX...which will be soon, because I'm almost done here. Then, he'll have a much better idea as to what he's doing, the rest is just practice...practice, and more practice. He really does care about the work he does, but as I've said before...there's just no where to learn this trade the right way first, which is why everyone is left to either learn on their own, or from someone else...who don't know whats right either.

Glen

Here's what I don't get:

I've NEVER recovered a table in my life. That said -- I'm also not blind. How can you pull that cloth and look at the bump and think: "Yup, that looks about right!"

Know what I mean? It's incomprehensible. Unconscionable.

I may never pull cloth in my entire life but if I do, BET that it'd at least be flat. Well--- no wonder you took a picture of it

 

[realkingcobra]

Here's what I don't get:

I've NEVER recovered a table in my life. That said -- I'm also not blind. How can you pull that cloth and look at the bump and think: "Yup, that looks about right!"

Know what I mean? It's incomprehensible. Unconscionable.

I may never pull cloth in my entire life but if I do, BET that it'd at least be flat. Well--- no wonder you took a picture of it

Table cloth, if not stretched correctly, can be pulled tight as hell...only to come loose later on when the cloth relaxes and develop the wrinkles in it like this bed cloth did. But, pulled tight the correct way, the correct pattern..and it'll never come loose. Here's a few pictures of his new work...under my hands on training.

 

[tattoosbyjay]

please come to jersey!!! the guy who does hot shots needs the help of someone like yourself