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frazz

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hi, i am getting a new table and am wanting to get the pockets tight, am i right in saying the standard pockets are 4.5 inches on the corners and 5 inches for the sides? what size do the pro players tend to have their pockets?
 
Pocket size

Hi I just got a Diamond Pro Am and it has the pro cut - deep shelf slate which is the pockets the pro events use. Its great and Brian Miller at Diamond Billiard Products is the best!!!!!!!! Give him a call he can help you with any questions yoy may have. Man Diamond is great!!!! 812-288-7665
 
frazz said:
hi, i am getting a new table and am wanting to get the pockets tight, am i right in saying the standard pockets are 4.5 inches on the corners and 5 inches for the sides? what size do the pro players tend to have their pockets?
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The pocket sizes you mentioned are the standard for most all pool tournaments pro's play in today, if they're playing on Diamond tables;)

Glen
 
talk to a mechanic/pocket size

If your interested in having a table play tight, but fair,the corner pockets should be : 4' at the wooden opening (throat of the pocket) and 4.5" at the rubber end of the tits (table opening of the pocket).
 
realkingcobra said:
The pocket sizes you mentioned are the standard for most all pool tournaments pro's play in today, if they're playing on Diamond tables;)

Glen
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This guy you should listen to. He's among the top table mechanics in the world, maybe the best... but that's subjective. He's the best that I know of anyway.
(And he's coming here soon! :D)
 
willecue said:
If your interested in having a table play tight, but fair,the corner pockets should be : 4' at the wooden opening (throat of the pocket) and 4.5" at the rubber end of the tits (table opening of the pocket).
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This is a little generalized as a figure of speech, meaning that slate shelves change the way pockets play for one thing. Secondly, pocket facings make a huge difference in balls being pocketed as well. And, just for curiosity purposes, in order to get the pockets you're referring to, what pocket angles are you talking about? And if you're rule of thumb is measured the way you described, how would you determine the side pockets...the same way as well?:p


Glen
 
Glen, could you describe the best way to get the pockets to the size of a professional table? The table I am getting isn't getting put up till the 4th of may so I still have time to get any extra materials I will need. Would extra pocket shims be enough?
 
ok i have bought my table but the corners are 4 and 7/8 inches, what is the best way to make them 4.5 or even a tad smaller than that?
 
Tight pockets

The Diamond I shoot on has 4" pockets at the corners and they are cut to a 43, which I'm told is the tightest angle and pocket size ever. This table was special ordered and they installed the rails and cut them on the spot. This was ordered directly from diamond. It's not my table, but in a pool hall, believe that. Michaels in Fairfield Ohio I think Michaels told me he bought the first diamond tables ever sold
 
frazz said:
ok i have bought my table but the corners are 4 and 7/8 inches, what is the best way to make them 4.5 or even a tad smaller than that?
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Replace the 1/8" facings with 1/4" neoprene facings, that'll drop them to 4 5/8", next step is to replace the cushions, extend the rails, and add 3/16" facings;)
 
shotmaker said:
The Diamond I shoot on has 4" pockets at the corners and they are cut to a 43, which I'm told is the tightest angle and pocket size ever. This table was special ordered and they installed the rails and cut them on the spot. This was ordered directly from diamond. It's not my table, but in a pool hall, believe that. Michaels in Fairfield Ohio I think Michaels told me he bought the first diamond tables ever sold
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I've never known Greg to support pocket sizes smaller than 4 1/2" and certainly not 4". I think someone is BS'ing you about this. I mean, after all...how could you special order a table that was not even built at the time and get the first one with 4" corner pockets...Diamond wasn't even building the tables themselves in the first 10 to 12 years to begin with, they were being built by someone else...per Greg's spec's;)

Glen
 
Mr. Cobra (may I call you Glen?),

How deep is the shelf on a Diamond Pro with 4-1/2 pockets?

-Howard
 
realkingcobra said:
I've never known Greg to support pocket sizes smaller than 4 1/2" and certainly not 4". I think someone is BS'ing you about this. I mean, after all...how could you special order a table that was not even built at the time and get the first one with 4" corner pockets...Diamond wasn't even building the tables themselves in the first 10 to 12 years to begin with, they were being built by someone else...per Greg's spec's;)

Glen
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Why don't you call Greg and Ask him? Then ask him how well he knows Michael of Michael's billiards in Fairfield Ohio

No Bs here!
 
shotmaker said:
The Diamond I shoot on has 4" pockets at the corners and they are cut to a 43, which I'm told is the tightest angle and pocket size ever. This table was special ordered and they installed the rails and cut them on the spot. This was ordered directly from diamond. It's not my table, but in a pool hall, believe that. Michaels in Fairfield Ohio I think Michaels told me he bought the first diamond tables ever sold
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I spoke with Greg today, and just as I said, Greg has NEVER produced a 4" pocketed table, and never would, so like I said...someone is feeding you some BS;)

Glen
 
realkingcobra said:
I spoke with Greg today, and just as I said, Greg has NEVER produced a 4" pocketed table, and never would, so like I said...someone is feeding you some BS;)

Glen
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I just spoke with Michael at Michaels billiards in Fairfied ohio he he still says he is correct and that he did buy all of his diamonds new from Greg.
Maybe, I could post his phone number and you could call him. He says that Greg will sell his tables anyway you want to order them.
 
I bet your measuring the wrong area of the pocket. Have him measure at the point or opening of the pocket and not the back of the pocket were the leather pocket is.

Craig
 
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