Brunswick Gold Crown install ~> anyone want to race?

ROB.M

ROB.M

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LoL...... in the video it looks like I work fast but in reality I’m slower than a grandpa on Sunday:)
The customer works in the line of video and photo, when I showed up the camera was mounted on the a post, I had no idea I was going to be recorded and most of the time I completely forgot it was there.

The camera ran out of memory a few times so I was told and had to be cleared of older footage <~ to bad cuz it missed the frame/slate dolly in action:(

I’m no RKC or Mark Gregory but I try to do the best with what I have.

http://pictwo.com/clients/11111/Anna/Pool Table Assembly.mp4




Rob.M
 
It wouldn't be right of anyone commenting, good or bad, since there's too much stop-go action.
As long as you made moolah and customer is happy, your're good.

When I do tables, I try to be AT the table for everything. Yes even stapling the rails. Said vibrations helps to set the table sooner. Only once did I have to go back for a re-level, but the homeowner moved the table about a foot for extra chairs.
 
Tavle

The table owners are very happy, they’ve won all their league matches and he even won the league tournament Saturday.
As you can see, I’m a one-man band when I do concerts’ <~ if you know what I mean. So if anything is not right there is only one guy to point fingers at:) Although the home owner did help me flip the top assembly towards the end.

Hello Floyd, I don’t think we’ve meet but it’s sure nice to bump in to fellow table jockeys on the forums. If you get a chance to share your work, please do.





Rob.M
 
I'm not a regular 'pool jocky', rather play more than install, so I'll have very few to no pix.
In the 90's in my std. ranch home (26x50) with full basement. Removing one steel post, welded up and gusseted the beams, I was able to fit in three 8 ft. tables. Had many Fri-Sat night pool party's. Invited many/any pool league players, a few Vegas winners stopped in but sadly no local pro's like Feeny, Mr Cue and cue-maker Schuler, tho were invited. OOOOooooh there were a few nights the 2 refrig's went empty & had to do a beer run. One night there were so many cars out front the cops stopped by. (with chest thumping attitude) I invited'm in. LOL, they played a couple games & left. One cop said bar owners couldn't figure out why they had little to no business. :rolleyes: They asked me to taper it back a little. (BORG, I complied... somewhat). Those cops & I went way back to the 60's... no issues for me or friends. (thank goodness :thumbup2:)
In those days we had 2,000 registered pool players in the league. MAN-O-MAN, those were some good times.
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I'm in a different domain now and picked up a Brunswick Centurion, a measly $400.oo Legs were sawdust wood & swelling, talk about :eek: rickety! I could'a had 5 more for a $1,200.... OH IF I had the money at that time. Pool hall was turning dance hall & needed them out quick. 6 Brunswick's BEGGING for rescue!!!, my life from then on would have changed drastically.
SO anyways,...
I'm stripping it down and converting it to an all solid Oak furniture piece. LUCKY ME, I bought all that oak before the housing crunch, otherwise it cost me 3.5 times more now. :eek:
I've removed the chrome horizon line and auto-body filled it in so the top rail looks like it continues to flow around & down to the oak skirt, I used oak veneer for that. I've even replaced the chrome corner caps in oak and incorporated the skirt, it's all of solid (glue-up 1x4) oak. I hand wood file and sanded to its finished surface. (Picture a 1/2 sphere then cut it into 4'ths.)
Those caps are held in place with springs for forgiveness when leaned on or bumped. BUT ALAS, no pix's, didn't even think about it at the time.
As for the diamonds... 1 inch dia. round and slightly domed Tiger-Eye disks barely poking out the top. The stain will be a brownish Gold (matching the Tiger-eyes), age color it to look old and mixed with a blackish smoke clear. Few more smoked clear coats of satin finish for depth. I don't like lights glaring when shooting.
I did something like that to my bike in the 70's. HD STOLE my color scheme near exact and put it on one of there mid-70's models. The black they could not duplicate and took the vehicle painting industry a good 10 years to figure out how I did it. In lights or sun you could not see the black paints depth... was like looking into a Black Hole. Just 2 colors (HOT orange & Sun yellow) stripes looked to be floating. HOO-AHH! simple design and WAS IT SHARP.

LOL, WOOPS... I rambled. :cool:
Laters.
 
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