Sorry if this has been beat to death, but I am driving to Kaiserslautern tomorrow to check out a Gold Crown III for sale at Billiard Beckmann, and if I buy it, I definitely want to get it converted to Diamond specs, or ae close as I can get, but need to know a few things.
1. And most important.. Does anyone know anybody competent in Germany that I can pay to do this work? I'd rather find someone who's done this before..
2. If not, I'll prolly have to take my chances with asking Billiard Beckmann to do the work of extending the subrail properly to accomodate the Diamond rails.. So, is the rail otherwise the same "profile" as a Diamond, or are there other modifications thst need to be done to the rail? I don't mind paying whatever it requires. I am just not sure what exactly to ask for.
3. Please don't say, "Just buy a Diamond....". There is a website that supposedly is "Diamond Billiards in Europe", but guaranteed that a Diamond table shipped over here is gonna cost 8K+, easy.. I am not sure that it is not just a placeholder website at this point, anyways.. As far as I know, there are no Diamond tables within 300-500 miles of Frankfurt, and certainly no one selling them locally.
The reason it is important for me to get Diamond rails instead of just working with a weel installed Gold Crown setup is that I've come close to beating a few pros whenever I go to Derby, but never really had the setup to practice properly..
First it was unknowingly practicing on a Red Label Diamond, then getting John Morra down 2-1 in the One Pocket the year he won the banks, then failing to close him out with 2 or 3 tries at cross corners that I hit super long because of my Red Label practice. Then, getting Scott Frost down 5-0, 6-0 back to back games this year, but failing to convert due to general lack of practice, and what practice I had was on Gold Crowns here in Germany.
So, hopefully someone knows a good table mechanic heremin Germany?
1. And most important.. Does anyone know anybody competent in Germany that I can pay to do this work? I'd rather find someone who's done this before..
2. If not, I'll prolly have to take my chances with asking Billiard Beckmann to do the work of extending the subrail properly to accomodate the Diamond rails.. So, is the rail otherwise the same "profile" as a Diamond, or are there other modifications thst need to be done to the rail? I don't mind paying whatever it requires. I am just not sure what exactly to ask for.
3. Please don't say, "Just buy a Diamond....". There is a website that supposedly is "Diamond Billiards in Europe", but guaranteed that a Diamond table shipped over here is gonna cost 8K+, easy.. I am not sure that it is not just a placeholder website at this point, anyways.. As far as I know, there are no Diamond tables within 300-500 miles of Frankfurt, and certainly no one selling them locally.
The reason it is important for me to get Diamond rails instead of just working with a weel installed Gold Crown setup is that I've come close to beating a few pros whenever I go to Derby, but never really had the setup to practice properly..
First it was unknowingly practicing on a Red Label Diamond, then getting John Morra down 2-1 in the One Pocket the year he won the banks, then failing to close him out with 2 or 3 tries at cross corners that I hit super long because of my Red Label practice. Then, getting Scott Frost down 5-0, 6-0 back to back games this year, but failing to convert due to general lack of practice, and what practice I had was on Gold Crowns here in Germany.
So, hopefully someone knows a good table mechanic heremin Germany?