New here with some questions for discussion

[wredman]

Hello,

I am essentially newly taking an interest in playing pool since acquiring a table that came with the house I bought. Sure, I have played occasionally since my youth but never with any purposeful effort to improve. I consider myself in the - improving accuracy stage,

My table is a Beach Billiards (Gus Adams Series), 8 ft and very solid frame and thick 3 piece slate, maybe 1.25".

I just had it recovered with Simonis 860


I have not found a lot of info on Beach Billiards beyond they were sold via a national home entertainment/spa/patio furniture company, then went out of business, and maybe back in business again.


I will start with asking for any insights into the table if anyone is familiar with it.


thanks. I have been reading here a lot prior to signing up and found just a couple of threads mentioning the company.

 

[Chopdoc]

I have no idea about their tables but I believe they are still in business.

Gus Adams was an employee of Brunswick and then went out on his own. He also made cues, I have one of them.

I believe the business is still owned by his family.

EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the forum! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[ChrisinNC]

Hello,

I am essentially newly taking an interest in playing pool since acquiring a table that came with the house I bought. Sure, I have played occasionally since my youth but never with any purposeful effort to improve. I consider myself in the - improving accuracy stage,

My table is a Beach Billiards (Gus Adams Series), 8 ft and very solid frame and thick 3 piece slate, maybe 1.25".

I just had it recovered with Simonis 860


I have not found a lot of info on Beach Billiards beyond they were sold via a national home entertainment/spa/patio furniture company, then went out of business, and maybe back in business again.


I will start with asking for any insights into the table if anyone is familiar with it.


thanks. I have been reading here a lot prior to signing up and found just a couple of threads mentioning the company.

I was a dealer for Beach Mfg pool tables and gameroom furniture 20+ years ago, but being in North Carolina, the shipping from California was just too expensive for me. They had good quality and an attractive line of pool tables to choose from, and we never had any problems or complaints from the customers we sold and set up their tables for. They still have an active website, so I assume they are still in business. It wouldn't surprise if a number of their lower end table model offerings now. like most other US pool table companies, are Asian made.

 

[Bob Jewett]

I have no idea about their tables but I believe they are still in business.

Gus Adams was an employee of Brunswick and then went out on his own. He also made cues, I have one of them.

I believe the business is still owned by his family.

EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the forum! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

There's a website, but the address/business it leads to is reported as closed by Yelp users. http://beachbilliards.com/

 

[Bic D]

Welcome to the board. I know nothing about beach billiards but I live on the beach and play billiards...not sure if that helps though :thumbup:

 

[wredman]

Here it is, before and after I recovered it.

 

[Black-Balled]

Table looks like hours of fun.

Table looks like hours of anguish.

Welcome to the azb!

 

[JoeyInCali]

The Beach Billiards I know of was made here locally in Sta. Ana, California.
They made tables that were used at the old National Sports Bar.

They were not all that bad.
They used local lumber.


Kinda sad that there were three table manufacturers here ( at least ) then.
Beach, Goldenwest and Olhausen.

 

[hang-the-9]

Hello,

I am essentially newly taking an interest in playing pool since acquiring a table that came with the house I bought. Sure, I have played occasionally since my youth but never with any purposeful effort to improve. I consider myself in the - improving accuracy stage,

This is a stage we are all in.

 

[wredman]

I called Beach Billiards and they were the ones who told me the history of the old and new company. It was sold thru Watson's and I think its roughly a 2005 vintage.


For the recover, I called a few companies and went with the company that Watson's uses because they were familiar with the table. The guy covering it say he use to do a lot of these tables when the economy was still going strong.


It came with a set of Aramith Standard balls, that I was happy about. Then, as I used them more I was noticing new scratches and chips in the balls. I measured them and they are a relatively consistent 2.235"-2.240" so I assume they have seen some hours of play.


With the new cloth I also had the drop pockets installed with better nails than the basic brads that I thought were dinging the balls. Now there are nice rounded heads really sub-flush with the leather. I got a new set of Super Pro balls and soon noticed scratches on these too.




The leather pockets have exposed metal on the rivets that I think are scratching the balls when bouncing around while dropping. I wanted to ask here about replacement pockets, but decided to just line the inside with felt. So far that seems to be working, and also really reduced the noise while playing.