Custom Pool Room

[pooladdiction]

Great news! I've been in touch with Glen. He says when the Room is done he'll come down and help me set up the tables. The best part is, he says He'll sit back and have a cup of coffee while I use his tools and he shows me how to set up rails and calibrate the table! How freggin awesome is that!? Reminds me of that wise saying: catch a man a fish...feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish....... Ahhh thats what I'm talking about.
After he teaches me everytingh he knows (and believe me, Im gonna pick his Brain) I'm gonna change my user name to the "realprincecobra" :grin:

What!! You aren't going to chop down an oak in your back yard and build your own table??!! Someone's getting laaaazzzzy!

That's awesome about glen coming down. I have no doubt you will win Billiard Digest's home room of the year award. Always anxiously awaiting your updates. Later

 

[IA8baller]

I spent 1/2 the morning reading all these posts, looking at the pictures, etc. and WOW is all I can say. :thumbup:

And to have realkingcobra involved in the table set-up to finish it off is the icing on the cake.

Billiard's Digest home room of the year award might be a foregone conclusion at this point.

 

[DogsPlayingPool]

Thanks for the question, refer to post #35 and 65 there are other post where I mention the foundation too

Thanks for the post references, my friend. Like I said, I knew you had your reasons and very good ones at that. Wow, basically no increase in your property tax is one excellent reason.

Another advantage of the design is if the tables ever go out of level it would be easy to just shim the whole building and level both tables at once. :grin-square:

 

[mr8ball]

Looking for updates

 

[KCRack'em]

You should have your own blog ... the advertising dollars would flow to you.
kcv

 

[3RAILKICK]

Dorsiano-

Are you or have you made some cue racks for the room?

ps: how many weeks is Glen staying when he comes to visit? Might want to check with Kickin-Chicken as to how much provisions to put up before Glen arrives.

Between you two guys-there could be some serious sawdust flying.





Amazing...just amazing-this room.

 

[dsoriano]

Quater Molding

Well I didn't get much time to work this weekend and it may not look like I got alot done but I began trimming the interior edge panels with shoe mold (1/4 round). This is really detailed work getting all of the 45 deg angles to line up flush in every corner. I chose shoe mold because it measures 1/2 x 3/4 and the 1/2 side sits flush with the raise panel 3/4 plywood. I'll be installing a little over 300 ft. Each inset panel is very time consuming. I got 1/3 of the way done. There is 51 inset panels at 4 pieces each, so I will be cutting over 200 molding pieces. All needing to be acurately cut with 45 deg angles. So! the point being, if ya'll dont see much progress, its because I'll be working on this really time consuming detail for a while.





The above pics show a strip of 1.5" MDF sitting on top of the wainscotting. I stripped these to use as spacers. My plan is to lay a strip of 1.5" oak over that piece and then lay a 2" solid stock of oak flat on top of both with routered edges as the chair rail. Hopefully that makes sense.

 

[dsoriano]

Railkick, I don't quite uderstand your question, if your asking about the actuall cue rack (wall cue holder) then yes. You may have just missed the post. Check page 26 post 382. I posted quite a few pics on the construction. I think this is what you're refering to, if not let me know. i'm curious as to what you mean. Thanks

Dorsiano-

Are you or have you made some cue racks for the room?

Amazing...just amazing-this room.

 

[mr8ball]

Very nice. I have been waiting for more post

 

[3RAILKICK]

Railkick, I don't quite uderstand your question, if your asking about the actuall cue rack (wall cue holder) then yes. You may have just missed the post. Check page 26 post 382. I posted quite a few pics on the construction. I think this is what you're refering to, if not let me know. i'm curious as to what you mean. Thanks

Dorsiano-My bad-I missed that post. And of course-that racks look great.

My apologies.

 

[chambalero]

ang lupit! you truly are a master craftsman. any chance of adding a fish tank in your pool room? i know aquariums and pool table dont mix but if placed right it might work. a marine tank perhaps? with all the beautiful colors of corals and salt water fishes, it will complement your pool room. :thumbup:

 

[dsoriano]

My wife is awesome. She bought me 24 shot glasses. A set of 12 1.5oz, and aonther set of 12 2oz glasses. I can't wait to set these up.

 

[goldcrown4]

now where's the "Like" button.

 

[8BALLDELUXE]

Let me know if you need any help breaking those shot glasses in.

 

[dsoriano]

New Door

A cold front was forecast for this past weekend so before it began to rain (storm alot) I really wanted to get the new door painted so I could install it.

I used enamel red from Lowes.

 

[dsoriano]

Last of the wainscott

It was a really productive weekend. I was able to finish the last of the wainscott and install the new door. After the door had a few days to dry I was able to install it Friday morning. I really needed to get this done to install the trim around the door frame and complete that portion of the wainscott.




One of my goals this weekend was to start on the top chiar rail trim. To do that I needed to finish up the last of the wainscotting. The side of the Bar needed to be completed. I've been putting this off knowing all of the cuts I had to make to fit it under the toe-kicks of the cabinets and the cut-outs around the counter-tops.

 

[dsoriano]

Cahir rail Phase 1

Well with all of the wainscotting completed I was able to start with the chair rail. I started by ripping 1-1/2" strips of 3/4" plywood to nail over the MDF I installed last week. I 45'd all of the corners around the build outs and supprisingly this wnet pretty quick.

 

[mr8ball]

Looking good.

 

[goldcrown4]

Such a nice way to start a Monday... to see progress photos from dsoriano! :thumbup:

 

[dsoriano]

Chair rial Phase 2

After installing the 1-1/2" trim I began with the top section. To do this I needed to router all of the 2" solid stock with round esges on both sides. This was very time consuming knowing I had a little over 100' to do. After routering, I began cutting and installing it. I was able to complete 3/4's of the room. Even though the the Cue rack is up temporary I also added the trim around it butting up the angle cuts. I still need to take it down to stain and install the mirror backing.