for the person who originally started this thread, "thinking of going with the champion pro from olhauson" let me say, that i strongly highly, thourougly, 100% disagree with the people who responded, saying that the gold crown is better and so is the diamond. let me say, i've played on brunswick gold crown 1's 2's 3's and 4's since i was 7 years old. i'm now 43. the brunswick gold crown 4 is by far, without question, absoloutly the single most OVERRATED pool table in the history of the world! this table is OVERBLOWN plastic! to be brief, the only reason why brunswick is the "so called" standard of the industry is simple, back in 1845 john moses brunswick a jewish german immigrant made the first sturdy pool table. since then the word spread like wild fire- "only buy brunswick, they are the strongest table made" but, here is the thing, for the last 6 years, brunswick has there tables made by kimmble piano, a company that makes pianos. would you want your automobile made by steinway and sons? i would not. the truth of the matter is, the brunswick gold crowns play fair. on a scale of 1-10 they play like a 5. as far as the diamond table is concerned, i never played on one, although, i heard, they are built by players and not craftsmen, this scares me, although i never played on a diamond, the word throughout the new york area, is that they play poorly. enter donny and butch olhausen. the year was 1973 the two olhausen brothers, knew, that they could make a better table than brunswick. today, 31 years later they have the biggest, and highest state of the art facility in the united states in san diego california. the craftsman, and materials, along with their genius methods and designs of carrying it all out, and putting it all together, is second to none. now, onto how the olhausen champion pro plays, and why it's better than any table in the world.
let me say, i have not played on every pool table in the world, most people have not. most of my life i have played on the tables that are wrongly and falsely installed in pool halls , the brunswick gold crown. so the following is a direct comparrison to the brunswick gold crown. i played on the olhausen champion pro at the 2001 international challenge of champions on the practice table. my mind was blown. the frame- the frame for the brunswick gold crown 4 is a waste of space! it stinks! it's plastic garbage, it's over rated crapola, it plainly SUCKS! now, you may ask "what is the frame, and how important is it? the frame is what holds and supports the slate, it is perhaps the single most important part of the pool table. the olhausen champion pro frame, is the strongest in the world. it could hold a full grown elephant sitting on it! the brunswick frame would collapse in seconds. so what does that mean? keep reading, the slate- brunswick uses, whatever it finds, the champion pro uses the world's greatest flatest slate, L.E.O.A.N.I. now, the strongest frame, coupled with the flatest slate, equals, the worlds most accurate playing surface. the accuracy of the olhausen champion pro is 1000 times more accurate, not even close, the difference is very extremly, obvious the balls rolls accuratly, now brunswick lovers would say hey, brunswick rolls accuratly, the answer, not like the olhausen. and finally, the cushions- the cushions on the gold crown are decent cushions, they are ok, fine, alright, not bad, average, nice. the accu-fast cushions which olhausen invented, are THE MOST ACCURATE and FASTEST CUSHIONS YOU EVER PLAYED ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these cushions are god like. olhausen decided many, many years ago, that the standard cushions available to humans were ok, nice , not bad, they said, let's invent, cushions that are so alive, and so accurate on the angle rebound, that people, who "know" will only recomend our cushions. well, they came up with the "accurate-fast" cushions, accu-fast, for short, i could go on and on about these cushions, but i will leave you with this thought, helen keller, could play a decent game of bank pool on them, and great bankers, could play on these cushions, with one hand tyed behind their back, and a bad case of the flu, i'm talking about accurate cushions! a gigantic difference compared to brunswick. so to sum up, $4000 for an olhausen champion pro is a great price, jump on it! i do recomend, simonis 860 cloth, and aramith centenial balls.
