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Well said and you also brought up a very important point about being set up properly. If you have a Diamond then by all means have a certified Diamond Mechanic set it up and do all work on it.
With my first Diamond a Red Label I made the mistake of letting our local Expert work on my table. It played like crap and I just attributed that to the table. A few years later I had Diamond mechanics re felt and level plus they pointed out what the local expert had done. I could not believe the difference in how well the table played when set up correctly.
Many rooms try to save $ by having a local work on their tables and run into problems especially if their tables are Diamonds.
You want to complain about balls hanging? I had the opportunity to play on a very early Diamond once and the shelves were so deep you could freeze a ball to a corner pocket facing, freeze the CB to the same rail, and the OB was so deep you had to kick it in off the far pocket point to make it and not scratch.
I saw a video a while back where Greg explains the current Diamond pocket dimensions and shelf depth. Current shelf depth is such that if you freeze an OB as deep in the pocket as you can and freeze the the CB to the same rail, you can see exactly half the OB, meaning the tangent takes the cb across the pocket opening making the scratch impossible from that angle.
Personally, the tougher the table the more I like it...as long as the pockets aren’t tricky. Gaffy tables aren’t good for anything imo, which has little to do with pocket size and more to do with facing angles and down angles, as mentioned by others.
The table Garczar mentioned earlier is a perfect example. I’ve played on it many times. The corners are 3 7/8” and won’t accept anything that’s hit even the least bit sloppy, BUT you can still rocket a ball in down the long rail at hard speed as long as you hit it perfect. Very tough but fair,
IMO, there’s nothing wrong with a factory blue label Diamond. If a person is having that much of a problem on one (and it hasn’t been f’d up by a “mechanic” who didn’t know what they were doing), that person probably just needs more table time.
Well said and you also brought up a very important point about being set up properly. If you have a Diamond then by all means have a certified Diamond Mechanic set it up and do all work on it.
With my first Diamond a Red Label I made the mistake of letting our local Expert work on my table. It played like crap and I just attributed that to the table. A few years later I had Diamond mechanics re felt and level plus they pointed out what the local expert had done. I could not believe the difference in how well the table played when set up correctly.
Many rooms try to save $ by having a local work on their tables and run into problems especially if their tables are Diamonds.