profoundly stupid question

While I otiginally said no because of your diamond, I would have no issue to a Valley and a few cheap sticks, in fact I did just that when my son was 12 or 13. I had a Valley, my 1st table, and felt very comfortable letting him and a few of his friends have a birthday party while I stayed upstairs. It was pretty easy and painless as he only invited about 6 or 8 kids over. That's a big thing as 12 to 15 kids I probably would have said no.
If its a Dymondwood Diamond besides the cloth those things are pretty much indestructible.
 
It all depends on your daughter. My pool table (shown in my avatar - GC W/860 cloth) was always available for her and her friends to use when she was that age. I never had an issue. Now at 19 she plays two times a week on league teams (1) BCA and (1) APA and enjoys the game..
 
If its a Dymondwood Diamond besides the cloth those things are pretty much indestructible.
Ha ha my diamond now is not that kind. It's a professional with cherry stained maple wood. Scratches very easy. I wanted to get the durable bar style, but the wife wanted to get the wood finish. It's really nice looking though. Just wouldn't turn a bunch of 12 to 14 yr old kids loose on it.
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Ha ha my diamond now is not that kind. It's a professional with cherry stained maple wood. Scratches very easy. I wanted to get the durable bar style, but the wife wanted to get the wood finish. It's really nice looking though. Just wouldn't turn a bunch of 12 to 14 yr old kids loose on it.View attachment 915197
That is a table that demands respect from children and adults.

Beautimus!

Hu
 
OK- I have a mancave/barndominium 150 yards from house that the Lord gives me great peace in. Diamond professional 8'. I take great care of my stuff...keep my pool room pretty spotless.......My 14 year old daughter had a few friends over and wanted to go shoot pool with her friends...without dad, of course......

What say ye?
Rent or buy a used valley table😉
 
Ha ha my diamond now is not that kind. It's a professional with cherry stained maple wood. Scratches very easy. I wanted to get the durable bar style, but the wife wanted to get the wood finish. It's really nice looking though. Just wouldn't turn a bunch of 12 to 14 yr old kids loose on it.View attachment 915197
beautiful table. Mine is the Oak. And it scratches and dings pretty easily.
 
I live on a farm and have a big pond. A man that was cutting hay here asked if his teen son could come fish. I said OK. A couple days later my wife gets a message asking if we have a party going on at the pond. They sent a pic of people on the property. About 5 truck loads of kids. The kid put it on his instagram and invited his friends. I had a floating dock they ruined by overloading it with people. Nobody fishes the pond now. I sure wouldn't let them near my table or cues.
 
Ha ha my diamond now is not that kind. It's a professional with cherry stained maple wood. Scratches very easy. I wanted to get the durable bar style, but the wife wanted to get the wood finish. It's really nice looking though. Just wouldn't turn a bunch of 12 to 14 yr old kids loose on it.View attachment 915197
Will say again...beautiful looking Professional. I have the black PRC...and it's ugly as shit. It's perfect for a pool room but if fashion matters for home use it does not have it.
 
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I live on a farm and have a big pond. A man that was cutting hay here asked if his teen son could come fish. I said OK. A couple days later my wife gets a message asking if we have a party going on at the pond. They sent a pic of people on the property. About 5 truck loads of kids. The kid put it on his instagram and invited his friends. I had a floating dock they ruined by overloading it with people. Nobody fishes the pond now. I sure wouldn't let them near my table or cues.
Well when I was of a teen age, in the neck of the woods I came from. I would expect to see an Old Geezer with a shotgun. (PERHAPS loaded with rock salt). 🤷‍♂️ Come walking to do some talking. Just a clarification on the rules and regulations. It's important to have good communication.
Flashback to the movie Days of Thunder and the classroom lesson. "And what were you doing flying inverted cockpit to cockpit 2 feet apart?" (Or something like that).
"COMMUNICATING" was the answer. 🤷‍♂️
Ah life's lessons.
 
I had a new neighbor give me a 2 rounds fired communication as I drove past His place. I went home and answered his signal with a needed ventilation of my burn barrel. A full clip from the 9 mill got 'er done. First 2 at his 2 shot tempo, then the full clip in my best semi auto group. (Forgot the smiley face) wink. He got the message and no further communication has been required. 🤷‍♂️
The Good Neighbor policy.
 
Well when I was of a teen age, in the neck of the woods I came from. I would expect to see an Old Geezer with a shotgun. (PERHAPS loaded with rock salt). 🤷‍♂️ Come walking to do some talking. Just a clarification on the rules and regulations. It's important to have good communication.
Flashback to the movie Days of Thunder and the classroom lesson. "And what were you doing flying inverted cockpit to cockpit 2 feet apart?" (Or something like that).
"COMMUNICATING" was the answer. 🤷‍♂️
Ah life's lessons.
Are you sure that that movie clip was from "Days of Thunder" and maybe not from Top Gun instead???
 
Ha ha my diamond now is not that kind. It's a professional with cherry stained maple wood. Scratches very easy. I wanted to get the durable bar style, but the wife wanted to get the wood finish. It's really nice looking though. Just wouldn't turn a bunch of 12 to 14 yr old kids loose on it.View attachment 915197
That is a gorgeous pool room. Did you have ask for the rounded corners?? They look so much better than mitered corners.
 
Well a 12 gauge pump with 5 rounds starts rock salt then bird shot the #2 shots and finish it with a slug.
I can rack a pump as fast as a semi auto. Can rack till I get to what I need in emergency. 🤷‍♂️
You do emergency train the Child wrens. Right???? 😉

Shotguns against big targets are unpredictable. My twelve for social purposes was loaded with a 6 then five rounds of double ought. One night I had a beautiful big healthy heavy coated German Shepherd attack a barrel horse. Twenty thousand dollar horse plus my wife's pet. Third night in a row and less than a week after a back surgery. I told my son to grab his twelve I had given him as a birthday present on his twelfth. I screwed the choke to whatever maximum full choke was called. 7.5 wasn't my choice of load to use but I could barely walk and there wasn't anything else handy. The dog was at about forty yards and my impression just in the brief glimpse from muzzle flash was that I had shot a bit high.

Regardless, the 7.5 shot killed the dog graveyard dead as I found the next morning. First project when my son got home from school, get rid of the evidence! Morons dumped a dog. Shooting it wasn't something I wanted to do but options were few.

Did teach me a lesson. You can't trust a shotgun to kill with a light load, you can't trust it to not kill either!

Hu
 
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