Brunswick gold crown 7 video ..everything new walk through from the expo!

The room I play at on Saturdays should have around 10 new GC VII's set up by then. I think they were supposed to arrive today.
 
Mark V said:
Anyone been able to play on one of these yet? I’m going to be building a house soon and am considering a GC IV, V or this one.

With the aluminum rails, how thick is the overlay? I’d be SICK if a scratch, say from a rivet in a pair of jeans, was deep enough to expose shiny metal underneath.

I’ve always liked the look of the V but the IV is my favorite table of all time.
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If you're worried about a scratch on the rails you may want to wait. I played on one in a hall that has 8. They are starting to show scratches on the head rail, probably from people breaking. They play great though. These has 4.5 inch pockets.
Maybe they'll rethink the rail covers and come up with something more resilient.
 
dendweller said:
If you're worried about a scratch on the rails you may want to wait. I played on one in a hall that has 8. They are starting to show scratches on the head rail, probably from people breaking. They play great though. These has 4.5 inch pockets.
Maybe they'll rethink the rail covers and come up with something more resilient.
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Unreal oversight on B-wick’s part if this brand new to the market table is already showing scratched metal.
 
Mark V said:
Unreal oversight on B-wick’s part if this brand new to the market table is already showing scratched metal.
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It is. Not sure what the material is but the scratches kind of look like what you'd see on coated aluminium that was scratched.

That being said, it wouldn't keep it out of my house. Played real nice and other than the covering I think it's a great table.
 
dendweller said:
It is. Not sure what the material is but the scratches kind of look like what you'd see on coated aluminium that was scratched.

That being said, it wouldn't keep it out of my house. Played real nice and other than the covering I think it's a great table.
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Bummer.

From watching the SBE video I’ve been pretty excited about it. I think it looks great and bet it plays fantastic, but if I’m going to take the heat that comes with convincing my wife to agree to a $14,000 table… it better not make an ass out of me.

There’s black GCIV’s at Chattanooga Billiards that I’ve played on for 17 years and they still look and play perfect.
 
Bob Jewett said:
At the CSI events in Las Vegas, there are many 9-foot GC7s in the vendor areas. Looks like they are doing a major marketing push.
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Well if they are going to try to get some market share back from diamond they are going to need to spend some serious money on marketing
 
trob said:
Well if they are going to try to get some market share back from diamond they are going to need to spend some serious money on marketing
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Brunswick needs to help start a US-only pro tour, preferably 10b but it doesn't matter. Get some decent sponsorship, play 12-15 events a yr on those new 7's. It could sorta be like AAA baseball to WNT/Pred majors. A good proving ground to get people playing on big boxes.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The Brunswick guy (Nick Baron, President of the Brunswick Billiards Group) sounds really candid and like he knows what he's talking about. That's a very good sign.
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First time watching it looks like quite a table sounds like they did a lot of engineering to try and make something really good really superior. And then they stuck their name all over it in two inch high letters and trash the appearance. I always hated that when car dealers do that.

I think if they took a public poll they probably get like a 8 to 1 that would say they don't like the looks due to all of the writing all over it. All things being equal, there's not a chance I would shell out $13,000 for that first generation of the gold crown 7.
The diamond is proven over and over they refined it down to a science. I would buy a diamond in a minute before I buy that table.
 
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