panthike
Kool-Aid --- "Oh Yeahhh!"
First thread... first post ever.
I just finished renovating my basement to put a pool table in.. (removed wall seperating 2 rooms, resupported ceiling to allow removal of a support pole, re-drywalled everything over, painted, added some floor supports (just enough that it wouldn't be so 'bouncy'), new floor boards and finished it off with some new carpet. And so i'm off to look for a table.
I had planned on getting a 4x8-5x10 for my 9-ball and snooker needs. I find out a friend of my dad's is trying to rid of his full 6x12 snooker table. I ask him about it and he eventually offers it to me straight up for $500 CDN. Not just a table but with some house cues, snooker scoreboard, cue stand, snooker and boston balls, a hand chalker (?) and a box full of master's chalk majorily un-used from the late 80's at the latest (had it come with the table, so it's the good stuff i read on here that people are looking for). The table was in niiiice condition considering it's age, a little over 50 years old. Needed new cloth and some work done to some panel board on one of the legs and a far end. This guy had owned it for 15 years alone (thus my estimated date for the the chalk).
I do want it but the room i've just finished redoing is not big enough. And with that almost always being the case on pool tables I've owned, I didn not want to have to deal with that again. There's 6 feet of room at each end which is enough but on the sides it's only 3 1/2 feet to the walls. On top of that the table weighs 1,700 pounds, too much for my floor. I almost want to buy it in hopes of reselling it, but that's the reason why he's selling it so low.. small towns like these.. people around here never even heard of snooker.. let alone want a snooker table.
I'm considering phoning him up and trying to get him to part with the box of chalk and i'll replace it with a couple packs of new master chalk (if i can find some.. there are no pool shops with accessroies or anything around here, so I may have to order some online). Also I might try to get the hand chalker thing off him (can anyone tell me the proper name for this?). I have a problem with that (friction) when playing and i find myself chalking the inseam of my hand with the slightly exposed chalk from a regular block.
Now to find another table, with no shops around it's going to be hard. Hopefully I won't have to settle with something from Sears
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- Jon
I just finished renovating my basement to put a pool table in.. (removed wall seperating 2 rooms, resupported ceiling to allow removal of a support pole, re-drywalled everything over, painted, added some floor supports (just enough that it wouldn't be so 'bouncy'), new floor boards and finished it off with some new carpet. And so i'm off to look for a table.
I had planned on getting a 4x8-5x10 for my 9-ball and snooker needs. I find out a friend of my dad's is trying to rid of his full 6x12 snooker table. I ask him about it and he eventually offers it to me straight up for $500 CDN. Not just a table but with some house cues, snooker scoreboard, cue stand, snooker and boston balls, a hand chalker (?) and a box full of master's chalk majorily un-used from the late 80's at the latest (had it come with the table, so it's the good stuff i read on here that people are looking for). The table was in niiiice condition considering it's age, a little over 50 years old. Needed new cloth and some work done to some panel board on one of the legs and a far end. This guy had owned it for 15 years alone (thus my estimated date for the the chalk).
I do want it but the room i've just finished redoing is not big enough. And with that almost always being the case on pool tables I've owned, I didn not want to have to deal with that again. There's 6 feet of room at each end which is enough but on the sides it's only 3 1/2 feet to the walls. On top of that the table weighs 1,700 pounds, too much for my floor. I almost want to buy it in hopes of reselling it, but that's the reason why he's selling it so low.. small towns like these.. people around here never even heard of snooker.. let alone want a snooker table.
I'm considering phoning him up and trying to get him to part with the box of chalk and i'll replace it with a couple packs of new master chalk (if i can find some.. there are no pool shops with accessroies or anything around here, so I may have to order some online). Also I might try to get the hand chalker thing off him (can anyone tell me the proper name for this?). I have a problem with that (friction) when playing and i find myself chalking the inseam of my hand with the slightly exposed chalk from a regular block.
Now to find another table, with no shops around it's going to be hard. Hopefully I won't have to settle with something from Sears
.- Jon
