Table down:(

iusedtoberich

iusedtoberich

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Table down:(

My lease is up, table going to storage.

Installed in 2012 when I moved into this apartment. As soon as I walked into the apartment and saw the size of the living room, I knew I was getting my first ever table. It is a GC4 I found locally in Atlanta from this forum. IDK if the member is still here. He was selling it to make room for a 10' Diamond he had ordered.

I have never let the cats up, but since it was coming down, I picked them up and let them play on the table.
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I had made a grid on the table with white tailors chalk a few months after the install. It rubbed off after a year or so, and I replaced it with sharpie. The marker lasted 13 years. The cloth is Simonis 860 and has held up great. I did cut it with a knife by accident near the break spot about 7 years ago, and it has not grown or really affected anything.
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Disassembly:
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I'm the table's 3rd owner. Was always privately owned, never in a pool room. Minimal staple marks.
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I had made these blocks, carefully measuring GC4's at the pool hall to have them ready to go when the installers came. They helped save my back all these years. 4.5" tall (6 pieces of 1x poplar glued together in two stacks of 3).
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My apartment lease is up in a couple weeks. Resting place for the next 6 months or so. I hired a company (the same that installed it) to break down the table and move it to storage. Well worth the $418 charge.
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Its next life is a bit unknown.
Thanks for the good times:)
 
iusedtoberich said:
I have sciatica and I'm 6' 3" tall. Raising the table 4.5" has made my back much more comfortable during play. After 13 years of it raised, I have zero regrets, and I will most likely be doing it on my next table, whether this one or something else.
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Even at 5'7" I wish pool tables were higher. Snooker tables -- maybe 2-3 inches higher -- help me get closer to the stick. Most carom tables seem lower than pool tables.
 
Higher tables are easier to bend over the cue but it's harder to reach those far a way shots and you need to use the bridge and or extension more often.
Raising the height of the home table might make it very hard to play out in a league or tournament, so I suggest to keep the hight in the range of the WPA regulation:
TABLE BED HEIGHT
Shall be between 29 ¼ inches [74.295 cm] and 31 inches [78.74 cm]
 
In the early aughts, I was at a Joss NE 9-Ball Tour weekend tournament at Salt City Billiards in Syracuse, NY, before the fire, of course. There are a lot of Italians in this region of New York, and the owners of this room served Italian delicacies. I will never forget the homemade Tortellini soup. It was absolutely delicious.

There were a lot of first-class champs in attendance. The finals ended up being Jim Rempe versus Karen Corr. Corr defeated Rempe the weekend before in the finals, and so this was a little revenge match between the two of them, a friendly revenge but a revenge altogether.

During a break, I'm wolfing down some of this homemade Italian Tortellini soup, and much to my delight, Jim Rempe sits down at my table with me. I have heard many stories about Rempe, and in fact, in the '70s, Rempe's name was in all the headlines of the pool media. He traveled the world in an era when pool wasn't quite so mainstream elsewhere, and he even won a brand-new car playing pool. He did make a cameo appearance at Gene Hooker's 10-Ball Challenge in Atlantic City, which utilized the two-shot/push-out rules. The finals came down to Canadian Danny Hewitt and James Rempe in a tense hill-hill match, with Danny coming out on top.

Rempe told me he suffered from lower back pain, which is one reason he does not compete as often anymore. He said that when he was hitting 'em in his prime that the Gold Crowns and other pool tables were 2 inches higher than they are today, and when the table manufacturing companies tried to increase their profit margin, they decided to lower the height of pool tables by 2 inches, so they could fit one more table in the truck for deliveries. Rempe said when that happened, his back troubles began. He was dead serious, and I believe him.

Oh, meanwhile, back at the tournament, Jim Rempe got his revenge and beat Karen Corr! Keith McCready came in fourth place. He was happy to have a little extra jingle in his pockets, and I was elated to have experienced the ambrosial Italian cuisine of Salt City Billiards. The owners at that time were strong pool enthusiasts.

At any rate, this is just a little urban legend about a tall player that I thought I would add to the thread. Here is me and Keith standing outside in front of Salt City Billiards and a photo I took of Jim Rempe the same tournament at Salt City Billiards. Last photo is at the IPT King of the Hill event, December 2005, in Orlando. You can see how tall King James is compared to Keith, who is 5'10".

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