Diamond offers a 10 footer.
Settle a discussion between a friend and myself
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Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
My father grew up on 10' tables, and he used to torture me on any size table. He had a quality that I always wanted, but never acquired: every shot he took was a matter of life and death. Having grown up during the Great Depression, he played in dog eat dog challenge table contests with a large group of challengers waiting to take the winner out. A loss might mean he was off the table for hours. I never played in such an environment, and even though I took pool seriously, it always remained a game. My pool experience (except in bars for beers) was one on one, loser racks . . .
You can play on a new 10' Diamond at Buffalo's
I just looked on the Olhausen website and went to the "build your own table" page. That allows you to select 5 x10 AND 6 x 12. Go Olhausen!
I'm guessing if you contact any of the made-to-order companies in the U.S. (Connelly, Golden West, A.E. Schmidt, etc.) you'd have a good chance of getting whatever you want from someone.
Bob, didn't you play before cue sticks had tips?
10' is a big table, Jacoby cues has an old one in their show room and I've hit balls on it a number of times and it's fun to play. If I had space big enough and money wasn't a concern I'd consider a 10' table for home practice, would be nice to have a 9 footer feel small when going somewhere else to play.
Funny you should ask that. I played in a dayroom where the sticks had no tips. If the wood had mushroomed a little you could chalk it reasonably well and play a little spin. I volunteered to keep the cues tipped. I had a lot of useful maintenance practice.
Before chalk was invented, which was before tips were invented, players used to rub the pointy end of the stick into the ceiling plaster, or so the story goes.
Go play 9B on a snooker table, that's brutal
So did I, but you have to call for a quote
So where are the side pockets on a 10x5?
DeeDeeCues
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Just a guess, but I'll say on the sides.
There's only one side pocket, it's right in the middle between the head spot and the foot spot.
Get a masse cue, you have to shoot around this pocket a lot.
Go to the other side of the pond and there are no side pockets. They have middle pockets
I heard a story that at one of the early DCC's, a guy had a prop bet that he could make a pool cue stick to the ceiling with no glue or any foreign devices. Apparently he took down a few thousand on the bet.
6 x 12 ?!!Go play 9B on a snooker table, that's brutal
So did I, but you have to call for a quote
Sounds cool!
Are they referring to a english snooker table or american pool table ?
Has anyone here had the chance to play some 9 ball on a 6 x 12 pool table before ?
Have won a bit myself doing that.
Drop ceiling? For that you spear it through the ceiling panels so far it gets stuck!
"Centre" pockets round my way. Never ever heard them called middle although occasionally visitors from across the pond would say side and nobody batted an eyelid because it was obvious what they meant.Go to the other side of the pond and there are no side pockets. They have middle pockets
Oh, and English pool is often played on "7x4"s which are probably the same as 4x7s but actually 7x3.5 - I will go to my grave struggling to understand why they are known as seven by fours.
Nope. Ceiling or doorway needs paint on it, clean tip off place tip firmly against ceiling or doorway and try to start a fire for say 20 seconds then hold still. Paint heats up and then cools and sticks to the tip. Slowly remove hands from cue and it will hang there a long time - days or weeks,maybe longerDrop ceiling? For that you spear it through the ceiling panels so far it gets stuck!