Guy Manges
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Do any good players think that it would be a good idea to have high spots and low spots on the playing surface, not much just enough to change ball travel when rolling...
High's and Lows ?
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The golf table (6x12) at Hardtimes in Bellflower had high spots and low spots and the players liked it that way. A friend of mine got into the golf game and missed his ball completely several times. It's hard to play that game when you have to shoot a shot softly for the safe but have no idea which way to to point your stick. He didn't play a second game.
I wasn’t too bad of a road player…I would map out a table using the directions of a compass….often I knew enough after a warm up game…..on the other hand, I didn’t play golf on any table, but one pocket demands that knowledge also.
Those unique tables did offer a lot of homefield advantage! I remember table number seven, an old five by ten with directional cloth. The left foot pocket hoovered up balls! As long as you shot slow one or two diamonds short didn't matter. The ball would curve in the last two or two and a half feet and suck right into the pocket. Had to be something funny.
The cloth does that naturally but none of the other tables or the other pocket in that table were as bad. Clay balls too. The hall kept each set of balls with each table. That table had a really wonky seven ball that was best fired in and a four about half as bad. I sometimes shot them at the vacuum pocket and let the evils cancel each other out!
Funny, I can remember that old table from almost fifty years ago, don't remember what I had for supper last night.
Hu
Bob,
The rules used for golf at Hard times were very good. No weird local stuff.
Is there a copy extant?
John Henderson may know.
Why would that idea even enter your head? May as well use one of those crazy cueballs that are balanced off-center so you are not quite sure where it's going to roll.
What may be an interesting experiment but not be too silly, is to have pockets of different sizes so you have to plan out your shots a lot more and think about position. Do I go for easy position for that 4.2" pocket or tough position to the 4.5" pocket.
Pretty sure it is drugs.
As novelty table it is possible to design a pool table with rails that adjust and can be programmed to adjust during a match.
Would you want to adjust the pocket facings as well?
I never said it would perform at the same level of original rails.
The design would be manually adding appendages. Or bore a hole and have a telescopic extension, that is fitted with rubber casing.
What design specs were you thinking?
The problem with engineers of yesteryear is always worrying about what they have seen versus what can be invented.
This idea makes as much sense as the apostrophe in the thread title.
IT ISNT A VIABLE PRODUCT, fool...Well, unless you are in fantasy land, where dollars and physics aren't factors.
Hahaha
And if so why none for lows...who knows?!
You described a virtual simulator. In programming fantasy land can be controlled by mathematical ability.
Anyone figure out how to "repair" burn marks on the pool table? That is a high reach for my ability.