Still no snooker table

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drsnooker

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MNorwood was right. The billiard factory is now 0 - 2. Although this time they managed to level the table and refelt the bed. When they pulled the cushions out of the truck, I knew I was in trouble. They had replaced the original wood feathering by some rubber that was sticking out so the outer rails couldn't go flush with the steel blocks.
On top of that they had put the baize on upside down on the cushion! Good luck trying to pry all those staples out and not damaged the cloth. They might have to go shopping for a couple feet of baize. Don't these people understand directional felt? You can't just slap the baize on and hope a snooker player won't notice.

In the mean time, I still can't get back to practicing.....:mad:
 
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Yep I was right. The billiard factory is going to buy new baize for the cushions. Looks like no snooker for another week.
 
:eek:People who work for big companies are not skilled artisans. At this point I would be shocked if they didn't try to screw you on this deal. You should save yourself some time and possible damage to your table and call David Rice @ 281 343 7665. He did the work on the table at Casper's. If not you should try to do the work yourself if you are going to have such exacting standards. It would be like getting home depot to install carpet or tile flooring. :barf:
 
working on 12' tables requires the best of the best table fitters in the business. Once they are finished-dont plan on moving for along time, is my best advice to anyone who is lucky enough. Mine still has a couple minor issues, but it does roll straight and is beatiful. Its a Riley Aristorcrate like they pro's use, I dont play on it much as I expected to-but i look at it everyday.
 
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It does seem like getting a snooker table right is a lot harder than a pool table. The cushions were done really nicely, just the baize was inside out and they thought they'd upgrade the wood feather with a rubber one.

Anyway, I got confirmation that they purchased the new baize (to no cost for me) it has shipped. They'll let me know when it arrives and then redo the cushions again and put me on the schedule. Hopefully, by the end of next week so I can watch the worlds while practicing....
 
At least some good news. Tomorrow between 1-3pm they'll finally come and put on the rails. In the mean time, I've got a pretty sweet shuffle board table. It's harder than you think to roll the cue ball trying to let it stop near the end....
 

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Sly: is this what you are talking about? They should be here in 3 hours, so I can tell them to fix that when they get here.

And yes that is Zhang playing Hendry in the background....
 

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Third time's a charm. All done at last, time to get back to practicing while Selby is playing Ken. :D
 

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drsnooker said:
Sly: is this what you are talking about? They should be here in 3 hours, so I can tell them to fix that when they get here.

And yes that is Zhang playing Hendry in the background....
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They do need to trim those folds off otherwise it will hold the rail away from the slate.
Looking good so far.
 
drsnooker:

I hope they got the nap on the cushion in the right direction. It should be facing the top end of the table on the side cushions, running yellow to green on the baulk cushion and the top (black) cushion should run from the green side to the yellow side of the table.

I also have a BCE Westbury steel-blocked and here in the Toronto area we have a good table fitter who works with Odie Willet. Not sure of your location, but they do travel and the fitter (Jyri) was trained in Britain by Riley.

Terry
 
Thanks guys. It's definitely the best setup in Texas. Not sure if it's the best in the USA....;)

It took them three tries but yep the nap is going from the yellow pockets all the way around. (short rail, long rail and short rail, the other long rail goes from yellow to black)
What makes me wonder if is they could have done that on the first go around. The way the baize was supplied the extra two feet or so was at the length of the table with the nap going across the rails. (I guess it was 6 x 14) I don't know how they could have put in on the cushions, unless they'd iron it to turn the nap 90 degrees.
But they had it inside out the first attempt in putting directional cloth on a cushion:mad:

The cushions do seem a bit slow at first, but after a few hits speed up considerably. Any one know if that is normal?

Back to watching the King of the crucible.
 
That's normal if the cloth is tight, it reduces the bounce somewhat, it should speed up over time as the cloth loosens. Glad you got it up and running bet you were cold turkey :)
 
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