Cloth color

vikingpitbull

vikingpitbull

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What colors to avoid, and what colors are good. Also do you do the bed the same color as the rails? If different do you do the bed the darker color, and the rails a lighter color?

I have four or five colors in mind Green, Gold, Blue, Purple, Orange.
 
vikingpitbull said:
What colors to avoid, and what colors are good. Also do you do the bed the same color as the rails? If different do you do the bed the darker color, and the rails a lighter color?

I have four or five colors in mind Green, Gold, Blue, Purple, Orange.
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All the same color unless you are doing up a club and it's nor for real pool players or don't really play and using the table as decoration to match your living room colors.

For colors, YES, kinda yes (the Camel tour used "camel" cloth which is basically gold, but if you mean GOLD gold then NO to that also), YES, NO and HELL NO.
 
Stay away from dark colors. They make it hard to see the balls clearly and tire your eyes quickly.

My favorites are Simonis Tournament Blue, Simonis Green and camel/tan.
 
What th 9hanga said.

No rich colors, unless you are gonna have naked chicks doing dirty things on it...

If that, then who cares?
 
Purple way too dark. And orange is just annoying as hell. Nobody makes orange chalk, so what are you gonna shoot with. Blue chalk ? Your table will look like a bunch of Florida Gators had a frat party at your house.

I played on an orange table, once. Believe or not, it was at billionaires house. Just goes to show, no amount of money can buy good taste ;)
 
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Green or blue are more restful to the eyes, and light colors are also good. Avoid "signal" colors like red, orange and dark colors (which will both give you eye fatigue in different ways). I like "tour blue", "powder blue", "camel" and standard green for pool cloth in settings where you play seriously. A club near me had camel color cloth on their tables and it was quite all right for playing. The balls are nicely contrasted and your eyes don't start bleeding at least. I could play pool on any color cloth for an hour or so, but a marathon session of 8 hours or more on orange cloth <shudder> would mean disaster for my eyes.
 
This was an option I was looking at. So you would stay clear of this option?

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A friend had that color on his table. Unless you and every person that plays on it always uses brown chalk, it will show chalk very badly. I wouldn't use the gold, camel, tan color. It is a pain in the butt to keep a clean look, strictly speaking of asthetetics.
 
Green has been traditional. During the 60's, Brunswick pushed for Yellow/Gold/Camel and after the pool craze died down, most pool halls went back to green. Tournament Blue is the current hot color, until another promotional push comes along.
 
Nice Grand Prix. There is nothing wrong with that color. Been thinking of trying out Orange on my Grand Prix, when I get it set back up. Hell I may just go orange bed cloth with blue rails. Over all cloth is pretty cheap anyway, so if you don't like the color, just change it.

Aloha
 
Albatross Cues said:
Nice Grand Prix. There is nothing wrong with that color. Been thinking of trying out Orange on my Grand Prix, when I get it set back up. Hell I may just go orange bed cloth with blue rails. Over all cloth is pretty cheap anyway, so if you don't like the color, just change it.

Aloha
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If $350 to change cloth to you is cheap, I will be glad to send you the bill next time I need to do my table. Of Orange was a proper color for pool tables you'll be seeing it used in tournaments. The colors they pick is for a reason.
 
How old are you? Any geezer's shooting on the table? The Brunswick green is easy on the eyes and traditional. But... I had that on my furniture grade table and I had real trouble picking up the six.

When I bought a Gold Crown I had it covered in Simonis Tournament Blue. Wow, what a difference. I could now see the edge of the six. I think aging eyes need both good light and the blue. It helped me.

Now if your a kid and you want to take old geezers social security check's, well then...go for the dark green.
 
My top 3 choices would be Simonis Tournament Blue, Simonis Tournament Blue and Simonis Tournament Blue.
 
GB Basher said:
Just to be different I quite like light greyView attachment 376231
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I recently played on a table with light gray cloth and was pleasantly surprised. It's a good "playing color" but there were blue and red chalk marks everywhere.

One advantage seemed to be that ball-wear spots didn't show up as much as blue or green. I suspect that's kind of an optical illusion (whitish-gray spot on a gray background isn't as apparent as a whitish-blue spot on a blue background?)
 
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