question about felt

[dcb1]

Hello. I'm hoping you can give me some advice. I have an Olhausen 7' table and I'm thinking of getting it refelted. It currently has the accu-guard felt that came with it. The table is about 3 years old.

When I watch professional pool on TV, they seem to often play on a Diamond table that seems much faster than my table.

Is there any way I can get my table to play more like the tables I see in professional tournaments? What is the standard felt? Are the cushions different?

Finally, who is the best table mechanic in the Boston area?

Thanks so much.

 

[realkingcobra]

Hello. I'm hoping you can give me some advice. I have an Olhausen 7' table and I'm thinking of getting it refelted. It currently has the accu-guard felt that came with it. The table is about 3 years old.

When I watch professional pool on TV, they seem to often play on a Diamond table that seems much faster than my table.

Is there any way I can get my table to play more like the tables I see in professional tournaments? What is the standard felt? Are the cushions different?

Finally, who is the best table mechanic in the Boston area?

Thanks so much.

The only way you're going to get an Olhausen to play like a Diamond...is to buy a Diamond:thumbup:

 

[dcb1]

I figured as much...but anything I can do to my Olhausen to make it play better than it does now? (little faster, better cushion action)

 

[realkingcobra]

I figured as much...but anything I can do to my Olhausen to make it play better than it does now? (little faster, better cushion action)

Not really as the speed of the table is split between the cloth and the cushions. Accufast cushions are not fast by any means, so even installing the Simonis 760 is not going to make them play any faster. The rails are only 1 1/2" thick, so cushions that actually fit them rails are very limited as they're really designed more for the Accufast cushions. So, to answer your question, no there's nothing short of replacing your table with a Diamond that is going to make your table play closer to a Diamond.

Glen

 

[Highmiles]

Not really as the speed of the table is split between the cloth and the cushions. Accufast cushions are not fast by any means, so even installing the Simonis 760 is not going to make them play any faster. The rails are only 1 1/2" thick, so cushions that actually fit them rails are very limited as they're really designed more for the Accufast cushions. So, to answer your question, no there's nothing short of replacing your table with a Diamond that is going to make your table play closer to a Diamond.

Glen

What? All tables suck except Diamond? Simonis won't help any table play well? Please recommend a cue and set of balls that are the only ones worth anything, so we don't make any other grievous errors.

 

[realkingcobra]

What? All tables suck except Diamond? Simonis won't help any table play well? Please recommend a cue and set of balls that are the only ones worth anything, so we don't make any other grievous errors.

When it comes to 7ft pool tables....look around and find just ONE that plays as well or close to a Diamond 7ft ProAm. Even I can't take a factory built 7ft pool table with 1 1/2" thick rails and get it to play more like a Diamond. We can argue about 9ft''s all day....but 7ft's?...hands down that belongs to Diamond as the best built 7ft's in the world

 

[Mr. Bond]

Hello. I'm hoping you can give me some advice. I have an Olhausen 7' table and I'm thinking of getting it refelted. It currently has the accu-guard felt that came with it. The table is about 3 years old.

When I watch professional pool on TV, they seem to often play on a Diamond table that seems much faster than my table.

Is there any way I can get my table to play more like the tables I see in professional tournaments? What is the standard felt? Are the cushions different?

Finally, who is the best table mechanic in the Boston area?

Thanks so much.

You can indeed make your table play better and/or faster with different cushions and different cloth.

Just how much better and/or faster will depend on what cushions and cloth you use, and how well they are installed, and whether or not your table has any alterations done in the process. And of course all of these things are directly related to how much you'd like to spend.

But here's the catch, by the time you buy new cloth, cushions and possible alterations, you will quickly be approaching your economic threshold: the point at which "fixing" something becomes more expensive than replacing it with something better.

 

[tonemachine]

What? All tables suck except Diamond? Simonis won't help any table play well? Please recommend a cue and set of balls that are the only ones worth anything, so we don't make any other grievous errors.

You sure like taking people's statements way out of context, twit.

 

[FrankieD]

My 2cents. I had Simonis 860HR put on my 8' Olhausen and my table plays waaaaaaay faster than it did with the felt the table came with. Sure the rails aren't quite as springy as some other tables, but the felt alone brought my table up to speed per say.

 

[realkingcobra]

My 2cents. I had Simonis 860HR put on my 8' Olhausen and my table plays waaaaaaay faster than it did with the felt the table came with. Sure the rails aren't quite as springy as some other tables, but the felt alone brought my table up to speed per say.

Yes, cloth does have an impact on the speed of the playing surface, but will only change the speed of the rails by the same percentage it changed the speed of the playing surface.