Thoughts on black felt for this table

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I need to refelt my pool table. After exploring ideas I thought with the light wood color that black actually looked pretty good. Anyone have any experience with black felt? Any opinions on a different color? I am debating between what's on it now or black, but I'm open to other suggestions.

Thanks for the help

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I personally would never go with black felt. The tournament blue is easy on the eyes for long duration play. I think black will be hard on the eyes. JMO
 
Try searching on this topic; it has been discussed before.

But for my $0.02, I hate black cloth. I've played on it and you just can't see a ball at the other end of the table - especially near the rail or hear the pocket.

Pick a light colour. Tournament Blue Simonis is nice; Simonis Green also nice. Black and Navy Blue (or Dark Red) BAD.
 
GideonF said:
Try searching on this topic; it has been discussed before.

But for my $0.02, I hate black cloth. I've played on it and you just can't see a ball at the other end of the table - especially near the rail or hear the pocket.

Pick a light colour. Tournament Blue Simonis is nice; Simonis Green also nice. Black and Navy Blue (or Dark Red) BAD.
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I did indeed try to search but had a hard time finding anything. Interesting, I hadn't thought about felt having an impact on trying to see the shot. Thanks
 
Get Simonis 860 (or 860HR) in either Tournament Blue (close to your current color) or Simonis Green. Both are easy on the eyes.

Any dark color will tire your eyes pretty quickly. You'll miss shots that you would have made if you'd been able to see the ball clearly.

How can you pocket the 8-ball on black cloth? Black against black? Good luck!

Make sure your installer knows how to install Simonis cloth; most don't. Get recommendations in your area from this forum.
 
Black pockets and black felt, one painful combination. I played on a table like that at a bar and it was more than brutal.

As for blue felt, highly overrated, definitely not that easy on the eyes.
If you wear glasses often difficult to focus the eyes on blue felt.
There are glasses/coatings now that make it more difficult to see on blue felt.

Stick with dark green, it works just fine.
 
I personally like tournament blue but a green color woukd go great with the wood color of your table.
 
Someone with Photoshop change it to black so he can see what it looks like before he spends money. I would but I don't have Photoshop.

I think you will regret it especially if you are a clean freak. Black will show EVERY piece of lint, dirt, etc. not to mention chalk.
 
Green

Pool tables are meant to be green. With that being said, black cloth is horrible, not only on the eyes but it is a pain to keep clean. As it starts to wear, it will get spots all over the place that will bother the eyes.
 
being from baltimore i had ravens purple on my home table. that lasted a couple of months. i had to switch to electric blue. the dark color was hard on the eyes, even with good lights. very hard to see the edges on distance shots, and the biggest problem was that it showed every speck of chalk dust, lint, johnny archer would have gone crazy picking all the specks out of his way.......lmao...
 
TX Poolnut said:
Someone with Photoshop change it to black so he can see what it looks like before he spends money. I would but I don't have Photoshop.

I think you will regret it especially if you are a clean freak. Black will show EVERY piece of lint, dirt, etc. not to mention chalk.
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Here's a quick and dirty version. If needed I can do it the right way later but I think this accomplishes the basic goal.

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Black, Red, Purple, Pink, Navy Blue, Yellow, Orange = Horrible

Just don't do it.

Blue or Green

Tan if you can't live with the above 2
 
I have black cloth, and although I take a beating in this forum for it, I have no issues with it, I like it, and it goes with the house. As long as you have the lights on, you can see fine.............
 

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I shoot on a table with black Simonis. It's really hard to see where the where the edges of the rails are on the far end of the table and the pocket openings just all blend together. I'm a fan of blue or green. Just my $.02
 
michael4 said:
I have black cloth, and although I take a beating in this forum for it, I have no issues with it, I like it, and it goes with the house. As long as you have the lights on, you can see fine.............
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Once you go black, you gotta go back ;)
 
Black and Red are some of the main colors people get when they don't get a pool table to play on, but to cover up to put stuff on and maybe use it when people come over to watch a football game.

Or if you're designing a bar / club and want to use the tables as decoration.

The color you have there now is one of the better ones.

Take this test, bring 4 non-player friends to a place with funky colored tables ask what they think of the tables, and do the same with 4 pool players.
I am betting the non-players will say how cool the tables look, while the player friends will say "that cloth is tough to play on" and will check the rails and levelness of the table.

You can pick which group you want to be in :)
 
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Scenario....

You're in court to fight a traffic ticket

The judge is an avid pool player

He finds out you got black cloth on your table

You're getting twenty years
 
Some food for thought regarding black cloth, and equally important -- black chalk from info I posted a while back within a chalk thread started by another AZBer:
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Two points about atypical chalk colors. And they apply to both Masters and Silvercup. The points were illuminated for me long ago when a clubhouse where I played had *black* fabric on the tables (friggin' corporate designers for the community development wanted the tables to coordinate with other furniture in the clubhouse). Anyway, both Masters black and Silvercup black were equally problematic & miserable to use.

I soon called Masters (Tweeten) and a very helpful and sympathetic sales rep (as in "Good luck with certain unconventionally-colored chalks") explained things for me:

-- Chalks in little demand, sit around way too long in warehouses and supplier inventories and their properties (questionable to gin with), deteriorate well beyond the rapidly-turned-over conventional colors..

-- Why the questionable playing properties of certain colors? It's due to the interaction of certain color dyes with the basic chalk ingredients (mainly silica and proprietary binders), which must be, and are, used in chalks of any color.

Bottom line forget your generalizing (actually needlessly denigrating) comments about Masters. Masters and Silvercup are leading brands for good reason -- their chalks are excellent (moreso for Masters) and both brands' would readily admit that certain colors of their product have less-than-ideal properties for the aforementioned reasons.

Hope this clarifies the matter for players who haven't heard about these elements of the issue.

Arnaldo
 
The Simonis web page lets you see what all ~18 of their colors look like on a table. Better, you can order a swatch kit. However the swatches are something like 1.5" x 1.5". The Billiard Factory store near me has swatches that are 1' x 1' (refer to Spinal Tap to differentiate " from ')

I have Simonis 860 "spruce" color. It's a dark green which I like because my gameroom has dark, rich colors. I do like the color but I'll admit when I'm doing drills I pick out balls that have a high contrast, like the 1, 3, 5, 9. Shooting the 8 when it's long distance sitting on the rail is not fun :*)

-Jeff
 
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