Has this happend to you

[johnqbs]

I am sure I'm not the only one that this has happened to, have you ever went over to a friends house and he takes you into his game room to show his very run down pool table. This has happend twice to me in about two weeks. both were bar box tables but that is not my point, I started playing on a bar box as most of us did. I asked how often do you play? Reply is two or three times a week. You all know what is going through my mind and at the same time don't want to offend anyone at all. What I would like to ask is why don't you recover and fix up your table. I just make the comment with a little work you could have a nice table. The next thing I look for is the cue rack, guess what no rack as I keep looking around the room I spot a collection of cues in the
far corner. Cues same as table in very bad shape the best I could tell about them none appeared to be playable most of them had no tip the only one with tips was the screw on type. I don't think thay have been moved for years. I may have rambled a little telling this true fact about what I have come across in just a few weeks. My point and main thought is with a table at hand at some time in the past they had some interest
in the game. why would a person let his equipment that would give so much entertainment and fun go down to the point of no return. I mean
about ready for a trash run. I just can't make my self understand this mentality of some people. Have you ever came across something about like this? Give me your take on this. Take care, john

 

[measureman]

I am in the floor covering business and have been in many homes with pool tables. Most are the typical low end home
table but i have seen some great antique tables. Most of what I have seen have had fair to good cloth. But when I look at the cues they are firewood.
And a lot of these tables are just covered with junk and you can tell no one plays on them anymore.

 

[RogerChambers]

Many times, John... many times.

Mostly, I have seen beatiful or one time beautiful tables collecting dust or used as a junk table because of the lack of people playing. In many situations, the kids or grandkids have grown and moved out, leaving the table to sit idle.

A friend of mine was looking for a used table and I mentioned seeing tables not being used at a Masonic lodge and at other Fraternal Lodges. He picked up a pre-war Brunswick very cheap, complete with balls (even an ivory cue ball), sticks, etc. He dropped a couple thousand into the table to have it professionally refinished and now has one of the best tables I ever shot on.

 

[cesarmorales]

This is something I come across on a regular basis. I was in commercial Real Estate for twenty years and have alot of really well to do friends. I get invited to parties regularly at big homes and most of them have a game room with a pool table. These rich people buy tables with leather pockets because they think that is the way to go. None of them have any real decent player tables and they have really crap lights over the table. One guy had a brunswick centurion table that actually played pretty well but yes, the cue sticks in the rack were crap. He actually played pretty well, could run out a rack of 8 ball if it was an easy layout. He told me that the pool store told him that the Centurion was the best home table to have but he probably could have purchased a gold crown with the kind of money he has.

He was playing with a nice Meucci cue but the rest of the cues at his house were those cheap two piece cues that come with table packages.

 

[Slh]

because having a table in your house doesn't mean you are a serious player. If you want to play pool seriously you need nice equipment, but if you have a table only for playing with friends it doesn't matter in what shape the table is.

 

[Chopdoc]

I met a couple at a bar and had known them a while when they invited me over. They had a mobile home.....and a pool table. He wanted to shoot with me on his table after I cleaned his clock at the bar.

Yeah....sure....mobile home.....pool table........


Got there and saw the largest addition I have ever seen on a mobile home.
Nine foot Olhausen in a trailer. :yikes: Beautiful....mahogany....Simonis.....

He pulled out a Predator an cleaned my clock. After being away from pool for so many years this was my introduction to just exactly what this whole laminated shaft thing is......but I still cling to my JOSS....

Things are not always as they seem.

Most other times it has been a nice house with a pool table that is used for sorting laundry.

 

[Black-Balled]

It just isn't the same thing to those people as it is to you.
We each have areas in our lives/ homes that fail to get the 'best' attention and that is just the way it is.

 

[Kickin' Chicken]

The short answer is we're pool enthusiasts and can't imagine anyone allowing their home table to fall into such disrepair.

And yes, I, too, have seen it many times, myself, the table simply becoming just another flat surface to throw stuff on.

Then there's people like me, incredibly excited over what's gonna be happening with their table starting in about 4 hours. :smile: :thumbup: :smile:

Best,
Brian kc

 

[Tony_in_MD]

Me too, because I think mine will be next, 7 days from now!

The short answer is we're pool enthusiasts and can't imagine anyone allowing their home table to fall into such disrepair.

And yes, I've seen it too many times, myself, the table simply becomes just another flat surface to throw stuff on.

Then there's people like me, incredibly excited over what's gonna be happening with their table starting in about 4 hours. :smile: :thumbup: :smile:

Best,
Brian kc

 

[Maxx]

because having a table in your house doesn't mean you are a serious player. If you want to play pool seriously you need nice equipment, but if you have a table only for playing with friends it doesn't matter in what shape the table is.

Nobody in this county can play? Just having fun!

 

[matcase]

because having a table in your house doesn't mean you are a serious player. If you want to play pool seriously you need nice equipment, but if you have a table only for playing with friends it doesn't matter in what shape the table is.

I agree. Hard for us to believe but the majority of people want a game room and a pool table, but do not have enough room, or enough resources to make a proper room with a good table. So they get a bar box for free, or very low price and put it in. It's an effort, but not enough effort to have a nice set up. Luckily, most friends don't really care, and so this little effort is enough to be able to say I've got a game room and a pool table in it.

 

[Jaden]

laminations don't mean anything...

I met a couple at a bar and had known them a while when they invited me over. They had a mobile home.....and a pool table. He wanted to shoot with me on his table after I cleaned his clock at the bar.

Yeah....sure....mobile home.....pool table........


Got there and saw the largest addition I have ever seen on a mobile home.
Nine foot Olhausen in a trailer. :yikes: Beautiful....mahogany....Simonis.....

He pulled out a Predator an cleaned my clock. After being away from pool for so many years this was my introduction to just exactly what this whole laminated shaft thing is......but I still cling to my JOSS....

Things are not always as they seem.

Most other times it has been a nice house with a pool table that is used for sorting laundry.

The only thing laminations in the shaft do is give repeatable consistency to the shaft wood. It's the end mass that make predators easier to adjust for all the other stuff.

Jaden