New owner of GC1

Those tables were so well built unless they get destroyed in a fire or a flood every one of them ever built is probably still being played on.
I bought a pool room that had originally opened in 1959 and it's still open. They're playing on those same GC tables 62 years later.
 
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DeeDeeCues said:
So many ideas. It will be automotive paint. For aprons I've considered everything from metallic Sapphire blue to caramel, to saddle brown.... For skirts, legs, etc. I am either bone white/ivory or a light-medium gray. Too many choices. The aprons and skirts don't worry me too much, they come off easily enough and my shop is close. The rest means more work to change.
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I've been dreaming of a gold crown. Candy apple red or Ferrari red. If I'm going to keep dreaming, low rider style paint on the skirts and legs and/or a mural of great pool players. Personally, I wouldn't get crazy with the top. GCs look great in many colors, maybe look at early 60s auto colors for inspiration. Most of the Fender guitar colors were from DuPont's automotive paints. Now I want a sunburst table. I really need a half dozen tables in different colors to match what I'm wearing. Of course the pool cues have to be color coordinated, too.
 
tomatoshooter said:
I've been dreaming of a gold crown. Candy apple red or Ferrari red. If I'm going to keep dreaming, low rider style paint on the skirts and legs and/or a mural of great pool players. Personally, I wouldn't get crazy with the top. GCs look great in many colors, maybe look at early 60s auto colors for inspiration. Most of the Fender guitar colors were from DuPont's automotive paints. Now I want a sunburst table. I really need a half dozen tables in different colors to match what I'm wearing. Of course the pool cues have to be color coordinated, too.
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Funny, I was thinking about the sunburst aprons three hours ago, and I've been threatening to make a cue with a curly maple sunburst handle.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Funny, I was thinking about the sunburst aprons three hours ago, and I've been threatening to make a cue with a curly maple sunburst handle.
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I've been thinking about checkering on like a rifle stock. I'd probably have to break it up into panels because the taper would be weird with parallel lines. That and just making sure the lines meet on the other side as I go around.
 
middleofnowhere said:
Those tables were so well built unless they get destroyed in a fire or a flood every one of them ever built is probably still being played on.
I bought a pool room that had originally opened in 1959 and it's still open. They're playing on those same GC tables 62 years later.
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There's a room here in Denver that has a GC with the ash tray by the corner pocket,would that be a GC 1?
 
measureman said:
There's a room here in Denver that has a GC with the ash tray by the corner pocket,would that be a GC 1?
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I don't know when they quit offering the ashtrays, but they were available (extra cost option) on the gc1's. My table has them, I'm in the fence about whether I like them, but I'm not going to get rid of them. They are cool, but I worry about them being in the way.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
I don't know when they quit offering the ashtrays, but they were available (extra cost option) on the gc1's. My table has them, I'm in the fence about whether I like them, but I'm not going to get rid of them. They are cool, but I worry about them being in the way.
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Went through the same process/thoughts. I eventually passed on them and used smooth corners. I really wasn't concerned with the "retro" thing as the table was refinished with stain but more so, knowing a few close folks who have died with lung cancer, didn't feel like celebrating the era. I have memories of smoking and using them at Bowling Alley's and Pool Halls but I've left the smokes behind in life or any constant reminders of how dumb it was.
 
garczar said:
I've seen these finished and installed. Look great. You could probably do something like it for less than 100 these cost.
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Depends on what I figure my time is worth, right? I love making custom crap like that, and have the tools, but I also have a ton of other projects that I need to get going on, including:

-Designing and building a custom cue lathe (likely cnc--which is a project in itself)
-Restoring my Magnepans
-Building an amplifier for said Magnepans
-Repainting my '74 El Camino SS
-Working on my third/fourth generation headphones
-Get back to making cues
-Making a control panel for my '49 Chev 3600

A hundred bucks and taking what I get starts to sound like the smart decision. Thanks for the tip and pointing those out to me.
 
2 pages and no pic?! Boo!

That out of the way, enjoy the new table! I have 9ft GC2.....and wouldn't dream of parting with it!
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Hopefully some photos this weekend. Getting close to priming the aprons and pedestals. I had two of the aluminum feet on the lathe getting rid of dings and nigh sixty years of livin'.
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Can't wait to see them.
 
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