Are you going with blue cloth to match your shoes?
I had a GC1 10-foot snooker table that had slates dated in 1959. Is that unusual?
for all the hullabalu I hear about the diamonds I'll bet 50 years from now there won't be any restorations that look as good as this one or will play as well either.
I'd put something in the bottom where the ball drop meets the cork. The cork always starts coming apart.