billiard table - long and short?

[cuetable]

Could someone please clarify what playing long vs short means?

Cuetable, could you please explain the numerical notations on your table diagram?

Thanks.

Good Rolls,
Rasta

Hi
I actually made a mistake in my original post, here is correction:

If the CB land at point A, then it's 6.2 pts long
If the CB land at point B, then it's 5.5 pts long

To avoid any more people conflicts I am starting a new thread explaining this from a beginner's point of view, any comments welcome.

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=49134

 

[Rich93]

(JUST ONE MORE REQUEST PLEASE DO NOT REFER ME TO BOB JEWETT, AS I DO NOT TRUST HIS JUDGEMENT) ALL OTHERS ARE WELCOME. THANKS jmb

Yup, he rarely knows what he is talking about and he has almost no experience with GC carom tables.

You would be better off contacting someone like Pat Sheehan who writes a column for On The Break News about table maintenance and restoring old tables. He has done a lot of work on carom tables. You might also want to contact the Elks Lodge in Medford, Oregon, as they installed new European rubber on their nine unheated carom tables and they are said to play nice and long.

Pat's past columns are available at: http://www.onthebreaknews.com/SheehanIndex.htm and his email is in the columns. Pat will know who to contact in Medford.

I'm late to this thread, but Bob's reply is what I call class.

 

[cdmexposer]

"my dear students...."

Mr. Beard, I am not one of your students. Sounding professorly does not make us believe you more unless there are some little kids getting on my computer that I don't know about. Everyone who has ever tested a table thoroughly knows that each corner plays slightly different. Having a table GENERALLY playing long or short is a different subject. Go back to bashing famous players at the old folks' home. Overgeneralization is a logical error, slightly less logical than a non-sequitur. Hold on, your point is also a non-sequitur. It is also part of a game of "Gee, you're wonderful, Mr. Professor." Hey kids, who all wants to play that with Beard?
( Insert Bensinger's reference here for name-dropping purposes. )

 

[Scott Lee]

Gee...and I always thought it was the PLAYERS that needed a nap to run long!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

This was the first thing I learned at Bensinger's in 3 Cushion 101 in 1963. To clarify, my dear students, "with the nap, runs long, " You must be aware of this in order to play top-notch billiards or bank pool.

the Beard.

 

[juanbond]

Mr. Beard, I am not one of your students. Sounding professorly does not make us believe you more unless there are some little kids getting on my computer that I don't know about. Everyone who has ever tested a table thoroughly knows that each corner plays slightly different. Having a table GENERALLY playing long or short is a different subject. Go back to bashing famous players at the old folks' home. Overgeneralization is a logical error, slightly less logical than a non-sequitur. Hold on, your point is also a non-sequitur. It is also part of a game of "Gee, you're wonderful, Mr. Professor." Hey kids, who all wants to play that with Beard?
( Insert Bensinger's reference here for name-dropping purposes. )

Wow, was this really necessary? Professorly? Would you rather Freddy repost with horrible grammar, in the tone of a twelve year old? I don't get it. Non-sequitur? Really? Don't you find useful and relevant the various individual factors that lead to a table "playing long or short", at least in a thread created to discuss exactly that? I think that's all Freddy was going for there, just pointing out *one* of the many factors. I, for one, find this particular point about cloth direction to be an oft passed-over one, if not completely unknown to most pool enthusiasts.

Sorry if me post was to profesorly soundng fer ya! PM me for teh dubmed-down virsion!!!111one