Fixed up another Gold Crown 2

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This is what I was starting out with. This GC2 has 5 1/4" corner pockets to begin with, along with 5 3/4" side pockets. As you can see, the cushions are rotted. The facings were cookie hard, and didn't even match the ends of the cushions in the pockets. Making balls in the pockets were pretty hard as the pockets were also rounded at the points.

 

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Here's the rest of the beginning pictures.

 

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Rails with finished 3/16" extentions.

 

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Attaching the Artemis Intercontinental Model 66 K55 Profile cushions.

 

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The corner pocket angles are at 141 degrees, or in other words, cut at a 51 degree angle as you would read it on a chop saw. The factory angles were cut at 53 degrees. By changing the factory angles to 51 degrees it helps to shrink the mouth of the pocket without tightening the back of the pocket that much. The 2 degree angle difference also makes it a little more acceptable to pocket balls using a little more power in your stroke, as at that angle the balls have less tendency to rebound off the first pocket facing into the opposite side before being pocketed.

 

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In this picture, you can see what I mean be down angle. I changed all the down angles to 12 degrees, as it was they all were different ranging from 10 to 13 degrees down.

 

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In this picture, you can see by the edge of the cushion and extention, I changed the factory side pocket angles from 15 degrees to 12 degrees, this change also makes the pocket a little tighter, but also makes the balls pocket a little better.

 

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Not only do I use a belt sander, but how many billiards technicians to you know of that carry around a table saw for doing this kind of work

 

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Finished the 3/16" facings.

 

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New corner pocket look.

 

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Recovered rails with Iwan Simonis 860 Tour Blue

 

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A closer look at the recovered rails.

 

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I didn't like how the slate screws felt holding the slate to the frame, so I removed all the slate screws, slid the slates over and found out why.

 

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Wish you could redo the local room's tables. I might actually play there again

 

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So, I got out my straps and straped the slates together tightly,
re-centered them on the frame of the table, then drilled all new machine screw holes to mount the slates with machine screws instead of wood screws.

 

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As you can see, there's no gap between the slates before I drill new holes to mount the slates.

 

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After dealing with the slates, I installed the bed cloth, note the lack of staples holding the cloth to the backer boards. I also stretched the cloth 2 1/2" wide from side to side, held in place with the glue I use only on the actual thickness of the side of the slate. The condition of the backer boards have no bearing on how I install the cloth, the slates don't even have to have them as far as I'm concerned.

 

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The finished table look. I finished the pockets after I took the picture of the cloth on the slate.

 

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More finished pictures.

 

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Corner pocket with balls.