Pocket size
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What kind of table?
The points of the corner pockets should allow 2 (standard sized) balls to touch but not go in simultaneously.
Rail rubber (the bouncy stuff) is selected based on the kind of rail it is.
An hardwood can be used to extend/repair the unseen portions of the rail.
{If I remember correctly. Poplar is popular.}
Rail rubber (the bouncy stuff) is selected based on the kind of rail it is.
An hardwood can be used to extend/repair the unseen portions of the rail.
{If I remember correctly. Poplar is popular.}
what he said
Good question. What do you play. Your level. Your friends level. My GC had 5” for 10 years. Then reduced them to 4.75. Currently on a Diamond with 4.5”.
Answering the question ..For myself I enjoy 4.5. Where to get materials… go to Ask a Mechanic.
I’d say a quarter inch small than what you compete on. Or probably no smaller than 4.25”.
Have a set on the way to get down to 4.125" on my GC4. Currently have a 4.5" set of rails and some days it's brutal, other days it feels too large. Kinda strange. Depends on how you're playing. Going to a bar box is easy for about 2 hours, then you start cheating them again...
These seem like pretty nice pocket sizes assuming the geometry is right. Nine or ten foot tables that is. I would probably go down another quarter inch on a seven footer. Some say these pockets are too generous, ask them what is the biggest break and run package they have ran on pockets this size. Get ready to hear a lot of things besides answers to your question.
I cut my teeth on ten footers with probably five inch corner pockets, nobody was obsessing over pocket size back then. I wasn't seeing break and runs everywhere.
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When I buy it will either be 4.5" or 4.25" corners therefore it would be 5" sides withe 4.5" corners or 4.75" side with the 4.25" corners.
I seem to remember a discussion on here that said that you shouldn't go smaller than 4.75" side pocket. I know Diamond uses 4.75" sides with there 4.25" and 4.125" corner pockets.
I seem to remember a discussion on here that said that you shouldn't go smaller than 4.75" side pocket. I know Diamond uses 4.75" sides with there 4.25" and 4.125" corner pockets.
It depends how much you demand of yourself in your training, 4" pro training, 4.25" Top amateur training, 4.5" amateur training, 4.75" recreational, you don't have to be a pro to train like one, it's the level of focus that you are willing to put, best material for the money are Diamond rubbers,
Brunswick are different, that is not the case with diamond tables because they have thicker facings.
Red Label Diamond at a hall here has 4.125" corners and the facings are thin very soft rubber. The angles are not agressive though. You can hit balls hard and they fall if hit clean but almost all shots wont fall if not hit clean, there are a few shots that can be hit badly which happen when the OB is about an inch or less from the rail and hit at pocket speed.
I think there’s a difference between rattle and hanging up. The pockets are deep and balls will hang up it not hit well. There is no rattling on well hit balls unlike Brunswick and Ohlausen.
3". No jaws, no shelf. Might be able to get a hair under 3" if you use the cushion profile beyond the lip of the pocket.
