Diamond bar boxes are trash

[9ballglue]

Diamonds are made fast so guys with poor strokes can keep up.
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I don't like barely touching the cue all the time

 

[Flakeandrun]

bar boxes are trash

 

[briclops]

This was white Diamond bar box table was used at the APA World Championship this week on the tv table.

 

[WardS]

I mean this as respectfully as I can: "Git Gud."

If you can't play on a Diamond, you need to work on your game. There's nothing wrong with the tables. Blaming equipment is actively holding your game back. Improvise, overcome, adapt. Pool players who rely on excuses will never reach their top level.


Make sure the rail bolts are properly torqued to 15 ft/lbs.

Again, I mean this respectfully, but past a certain point, this game is like 90% mental. By hating on a table you are actively sabotaging your game. Do you think Mosconi always had perfect conditions when he went around running 100s all over the country in exhibitions?

It’s a poor workman who blames his tools or something like that

 

[iusedtoberich]

I'm not much of a fan of Diamonds either, but this a skill issue not a table issue. What you are taking about is the playabiltiy of the cloth. You need to play on a vareity of tables. Some tables will play slightly different even in the same pool hall next to each other.

It’s a million percent not the cloth. It’s the cushion/rail assembly reaction.

 

[ShootingArts]

Diamonds are made fast so guys with poor strokes can keep up.
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I don't like barely touching the cue all the time

If we could get past the rule of no moving parts it would be fun to design a cue with an adjustable dampening system. Having stumbled on some tables that had been in storage since the eighties, valley barboxes at that, I know I would play a bunch better. These tables had the super abrasive cloth on them, take all the skin off of the part of your fingers resting on the cloth in a few hours play. I still played like a house afire.

Could be coincidence since I never spent much time there but with twenty-five year old tables I played like I was twenty-five years younger. Seems like equipment really is a big part of the equation.

Hu

 

[Nyquil]

9 ft tables have German cushions.
7 ft one have Chinese

Yea the 9's have diff rails I think there is a dimensional reason from a playability standpoint on why the 9's have diff rails. RKC I am sure could shed some light on that. Rail bolts being tight and making sure the table is maintained is more important than the rail difference imo. Some just don't like diamonds and that's ok. There is other options but I have a damn Sherman tank for a table that will outlive me and humbles me often lol.

 

[trob]

This was white Diamond bar box table was used at the APA World Championship this week on the tv table.View attachment 773801

I put another post up of it and A lot didn’t like it. Here’s a pic of the one they used at the last nationals and I like this years much better. The last nationals it had white leather pocket and the diamond sign was white and that was just to much to me. the black and the grey cloth toned it down. I get some find it to modern but I dig it for the right room.

 

[I love pool]

I had an issue recently but it wasn’t the tables fault. I don’t think. It was APA regional and the night before I played a few racks at another pool hall. It was owned by the same owner that was hosting the regional event and the same table too. There was similar humidity temperature etc. I broke and ran a few nine and eight ball racks the first night. Come regionals the equipment was way faster. I’m pretty sure the tables for regionals had Andy cloth and I know for a fact he polished every set of balls used. Some of my shots were rolling 3 or 4 feet further than the day before. Even my lag!! Aahh… learning experience I guess. All diamond 7’s btw.