The pocket size on my new table is a little smaller than I wanted

This Was A Fortutous Development For You......Enjoy It!

Stay with what you have.....you didn't plan for it but enjoy the outcome.
What's the outcome? Your home table will play harder than most tables you'll encounter.

It will make you a better player.....think of it as a diet. At the outset, you know it's hard.
But you know as the belt needs tightening & then pants size changes, you're successful.

It encourages you to try harder and reach for the finish line.......in pool there's no finish line.
All you have is competition, whether's it's friendly, casual or serious and also practice time.
Your home practice will be more challenging but your skills will definitely get better & advance.

Don't complain about missing balls on your home table and.relish the feeling when you do and focus
on making the shots because a one rack run out on your table is likely more like 25 -30 balls on
a different table. Besides, other players will really struggle on your home table and you'll excel.

I'm reminded about Winston Churchill whom was asked after losing re-election as England's PM
how he felt. With a Churchill like quip he responded back......"It's a blessing in disguise......but I
will admit that it is very well disguised.".......think of your table the same way.......it's a blessing in
disguise becasue it will make you into a much better player regardless of your own aspirations.


Matt B.
 
RKC gave the only sound advice in this entire thread. Ask Jeremy how thick the facing are and if they are 3/16 change them to 1/8 and no matter where you measure from or how you measure one thing is for sure, they will be 1/8 bigger than they were.

You should not need new rail cloth to do this modification and shouldn't take an experienced guy more than an hour or so to accomplish. Maybe just leave the side pockets alone.

JC
 
Since we're on the subject, how much trouble is it to open the pockets on a Diamond pro-am from 4.5" to 4.75".

Wouldn't that make the Diamond shelf even deeper? Making it only very marginally easier?
 
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realkingcobra said:
How thick are the facing? If they're 3/16" then replace them with 1/8" facings.
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That's interesting...I guess only Jerimy knows how thick the facings are....Hey...I learned a few years ago not to pretend I knew anything about pool tables when talking to you, so I might be all wrong about this; but, one of the first things I noticed when I first started playing on that table after Jerimy set it up, was how hard the facings were.

I wrote in my earlier post that the balls either go in easily or they're firmly rejected. There is nothing wishy - washy about the process and there are very few instances where a ball "Teeters" on the lip. My theory for 3 years has been that hardness of the facings plays a role in this.

I've come to the belief that if the ball hits the point with a certain percentage of the mass of the ball on the side of the point where the pocket is, the hardness of the facing and the subsequent lack of spring that hardness produces, prevents the ball from bouncing over to the opposite facing, and the ball easily goes into the pocket without going far from the point of the facing the ball originally hit.

I think the shelf is about 1.5 inches. I've often thought hough, the lenghth of the shelf is irrelevant with this table because of what I've described...that being the hardness and non - existence of spring in the facing.

When I played on that table, I believed that if I hit the point with a certain percentage of the mass of the ball on the side of the point where the pocket is, because of the hardness of the facing, the lack of spring, and the subsequent somewhat straight route the ball took towards the pocket, most balls that traveled that 1.5 " shelf and into the pocket would have also dropped if the shelf were 4"

I know they're Jerimy Chamber's pockets and not yours; but, am I making any sense....or am I having optical illusions again?
 
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jtompilot said:
When you get to 50 ball runs at home, go to a local room with 5" buckets and run a hundred or so:wink:
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Yep, when you run 50 on a table like this, you've done something. Tight pockets make a player clean up their game, especially so with position play. Having a tight table cured me of the bad habit of cheating pockets.
 
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