Warren pool cue rack by Touch of Class
Product review
Last week I ordered the Warren cue rack from Touch of Class and thought that I would do a review on azbilliards for it. I love the wall racks but the problem is that they can take up a lot of space on your wall that you might wish to reserve for other game room décor. I wanted something that kept an old world style to it and didn’t really want to go with the combination table/cue floor stands. I’ve always liked the tall round cue stands and when I saw this one, I instantly liked it. This reminds me of something you’d see in Europe, sitting near a Snooker table.
The details:
I ordered mine in Winsor Oak finish and it was a tough choice as the room I am slowly building is an Irish Pub / Celtic themed game room, but the rack can also be ordered in a darker Classic Cherry finish. The cue rack stands 43” tall with a diameter of 14”. It holds up to twelve cues, which is decent as most stands typically hold eight. This will easily hold all my cues and bridge sticks and since I am going to order two sets of Lucasi’s high end one piece house cues, this will display them beautifully. (I’ve contacted Lucasi and am checking into having a few bridge sticks and a breaking cue made to match the house cues) The sticks are stored by resting in sections cut out in the top board or “rack” and the butts of the sticks sit into hollowed out cups in the base of the stand. The height of the top section is low enough to avoid any strain on the sticks so they should be safe from warping as they would while leaning up against a wall.
The quality:
The stand comes well packed, unassembled in four parts plus a small package of hardware. The main components of the stand are the base, the turned post or “spindle”, the rack, and the top finial. The base and rack are made of veneered pressboard material. The base has three small feet made of 2” diameter dowel by 1” thick I believe. The stand features a turned hardwood spindle, though I’m not sure if it’s genuine oak or not. A finial which looks to be made of wood toned, painted resin tops the stand. While it’s no solid hardwood piece (but what isn’t made of fiberboard these days), it still looks pretty nice. The base bolts into the bottom of the spindle and is held in place by a 1 3/4” machine screw, washer, and spring washer. A screw cast into the resin of the finial threads into the top of the spindle to secure the rack to the spindle. Two small wood dowels fit into predrilled holes to keep the base and rack in place and avoid spinning of these parts. Tightening of the one and only screw is done with an Allen wrench. (Not like I have 50 of these wrenches already around the house) lol
The price:
The Warren pool cue stand is available for $149 on the Touch of Class website. It cost me $18.95 for FedEx ground shipping on my order and took about 7 business days to reach me. Not bad! All this came to a grand total of $167.95.
The acts as a nice looking piece of game room furniture as well as a nice display storage rack for your pool cues. The down fall versus other style cue racks are that it only holds cues/bridge sticks whereas other style cue racks can double to store billiard balls, ball racks, hand talc, table brushes, and in the case of the table styles, beverage glassware. But this can also be conveniently placed in a corner and not take up much space for the amount of cues it stores.
Product review
Last week I ordered the Warren cue rack from Touch of Class and thought that I would do a review on azbilliards for it. I love the wall racks but the problem is that they can take up a lot of space on your wall that you might wish to reserve for other game room décor. I wanted something that kept an old world style to it and didn’t really want to go with the combination table/cue floor stands. I’ve always liked the tall round cue stands and when I saw this one, I instantly liked it. This reminds me of something you’d see in Europe, sitting near a Snooker table.
The details:
I ordered mine in Winsor Oak finish and it was a tough choice as the room I am slowly building is an Irish Pub / Celtic themed game room, but the rack can also be ordered in a darker Classic Cherry finish. The cue rack stands 43” tall with a diameter of 14”. It holds up to twelve cues, which is decent as most stands typically hold eight. This will easily hold all my cues and bridge sticks and since I am going to order two sets of Lucasi’s high end one piece house cues, this will display them beautifully. (I’ve contacted Lucasi and am checking into having a few bridge sticks and a breaking cue made to match the house cues) The sticks are stored by resting in sections cut out in the top board or “rack” and the butts of the sticks sit into hollowed out cups in the base of the stand. The height of the top section is low enough to avoid any strain on the sticks so they should be safe from warping as they would while leaning up against a wall.
The quality:
The stand comes well packed, unassembled in four parts plus a small package of hardware. The main components of the stand are the base, the turned post or “spindle”, the rack, and the top finial. The base and rack are made of veneered pressboard material. The base has three small feet made of 2” diameter dowel by 1” thick I believe. The stand features a turned hardwood spindle, though I’m not sure if it’s genuine oak or not. A finial which looks to be made of wood toned, painted resin tops the stand. While it’s no solid hardwood piece (but what isn’t made of fiberboard these days), it still looks pretty nice. The base bolts into the bottom of the spindle and is held in place by a 1 3/4” machine screw, washer, and spring washer. A screw cast into the resin of the finial threads into the top of the spindle to secure the rack to the spindle. Two small wood dowels fit into predrilled holes to keep the base and rack in place and avoid spinning of these parts. Tightening of the one and only screw is done with an Allen wrench. (Not like I have 50 of these wrenches already around the house) lol
The price:
The Warren pool cue stand is available for $149 on the Touch of Class website. It cost me $18.95 for FedEx ground shipping on my order and took about 7 business days to reach me. Not bad! All this came to a grand total of $167.95.
The acts as a nice looking piece of game room furniture as well as a nice display storage rack for your pool cues. The down fall versus other style cue racks are that it only holds cues/bridge sticks whereas other style cue racks can double to store billiard balls, ball racks, hand talc, table brushes, and in the case of the table styles, beverage glassware. But this can also be conveniently placed in a corner and not take up much space for the amount of cues it stores.