Gabriels 10 Ft Pool Table

[Bob Jewett]

No merit to your assumptions. Rock playing surfaces have no effect on tapping balls to stay in place, but cloth does. The finished surface of the slate, granite, or marble surface is never, ever...ever going to "wear out, or change" no matter how much it's played or, or for how many years the tables in use. Granite my be a cost choice over using slate from Brazil, but it certainly is not going to provide a better table.

I thought that some kinds of slate in dry weather would split into layers (like puff pastry) and bubble up in places.

 

[pdcue]

I thought that some kinds of slate in dry weather would split into layers (like puff pastry) and bubble up in places.

You are dead on correct about that. I have seen it with my own eyes.

Someone I know from CA, who was in the pool table biz for decades told me
it was typically slate from the mountains from New England or Penn that wound up in the desert.

IMHO - even tho some of the best slate ever comes from those regions,
a piece that delaminates like Mica, probably never should have been
used for a table bed in the first place.

Dale