Why is it always green felt with blue chalk?

3andstop said:
As a former room owner I can tell you that making the chalk the same color as the cloth doesn't keep it cleaner longer ... :) it just makes it so you don't see the filth and it becomes an even bigger problem to deal with later when you finally realize you have six tons of green chalk on your cloth and you can no longer find the six ball. :)
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HAHA LOL, thats great, you made my day, rep for you!
 
Pool table cloth is green. Period. It's tradition.
Chalk is blue. Period. Again... tradition.
No choices. No maybe's. Green cloth, blue chalk. Period.
 
JimS said:
Pool table cloth is green. Period. It's tradition.
Chalk is blue. Period. Again... tradition.
No choices. No maybe's. Green cloth, blue chalk. Period.
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Period? Why would you want to go with tradition? Why would you want to get a pool table that looks like everyone elses? Why would you want to be like anyone else? It's called being different and trying new things, period.
 
I've always said cloth should be green or green but I've found myself coming to like blue cloth. I never though that would happen! Any other colour is a huge no-no though, I've played on red, tan etc & hated the experience.

As for the chalk I prefer green but if you use that at our PH you lose your free pool card!! I can live with blue again.
 
What do you guys think of olive? I have olive simonis 860 on my home table, and love it. Very easy on the eyes, and a little different than the standards greens that most people have. I think it looks very cool and classy, and am surprised that more people don't go for it.
 
Olive? Barf. Sorry but anything olive looks bad to me. Although I'd still take it over red!:D
 
whatever you do, don't get black cloth !...every color chalk readily available shows up like its almost neon,,,shot on a new table in Houston; it had black cloth; after 4 or 5 games it looked like crap.

wish tweeten still made dark green chalk; it worked well on green cloth.
 
JJ Dakota's used to be a "pool hall" here in the DFW area. Irving to be exact.

They had a bunch of oversized 8 footers with PINK moly cloth.

i win.
 
You know what's scary? I was JUST pondering this very same idea the other night. I wonder why every bar I go to plays with green felt and blue chalk. Don't they know it's better to match them up?!?!
 
Many of the Pro tournaments have gone to using Blue cloth. Quite a few of the Pros say they perfer Blue. :cool: You can see the edges of the balls better is what they say. :cool: I use tan masters chalk. I play on my buddys green table all the time it really causes absolutely no problem. I never even notice any markings and I usually clean the table. Of course red or black would be different. That's taboo. I find no problem with tan and would be offended if a room owner told me not to use it.:p JMO
 
rackem said:
Many of the Pro tournaments have gone to using Blue cloth. Quite a few of the Pros say they perfer Blue. :cool: You can see the edges of the balls better is what they say. :cool: I use tan masters chalk. I play on my buddys green table all the time it really causes absolutely no problem. I never even notice any markings and I usually clean the table. Of course red or black would be different. That's taboo. I find no problem with tan and would be offended if a room owner told me not to use it.:p JMO
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i think the blue is for TV but thats jive because snooker on TV in Europe is on green cloth, blue is for swimming pools, and green is for pool tables and refrigators are white, toasters are chrome with black handles certain things are what they are. I'm all for new things but please leave the pool ttable green.
 
I once bought a couple cubes of green chalk cause I thought it would keep the table looking cleaner... It does not. Grren chalk on standard green simonis shows alot. Blue chalk, on the other hand, does not really show at all...

Does not make a whole lot of sense but its true. Go test it out... After I found that out, I assumed thats why everybody uses blue chalk... it shows less /shrug
 
CaptiveBred said:
I once bought a couple cubes of green chalk cause I thought it would keep the table looking cleaner... It does not. Grren chalk on standard green simonis shows alot. Blue chalk, on the other hand, does not really show at all...

Does not make a whole lot of sense but its true. Go test it out... After I found that out, I assumed thats why everybody uses blue chalk... it shows less /shrug
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I was playing a friend from the UK who had his own chalk it was green triangle or something very powedery and it left a terrible mess on the table, it dosent bother me-a dirty table. but it was more noticable than blue
 
In MY experience I have found a lot of the colored chalks are horrible. Red and black being the worst. They seem to turn into powder easier and stain the ferrule while making colored dust for you to get all over your hands and clothes. The blue chalk has a stiffer consistency which makes it easier to keep just the tip chalked. Personally I use the Grey Master Chalk. No messy dust, stays on tip without getting that buildup on the edges or into/around any grooves you have made with your tip tool. Maybe Im wrong. Then again I know girls who have bought chalk to match the shade of fingernail polish they bought that day!!!
 
Railbird Hero said:
In MY experience I have found a lot of the colored chalks are horrible. Red and black being the worst. They seem to turn into powder easier and stain the ferrule while making colored dust for you to get all over your hands and clothes. The blue chalk has a stiffer consistency which makes it easier to keep just the tip chalked. Personally I use the Grey Master Chalk. No messy dust, stays on tip without getting that buildup on the edges or into/around any grooves you have made with your tip tool. Maybe Im wrong. Then again I know girls who have bought chalk to match the shade of fingernail polish they bought that day!!!
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Thats funny. My neighbor has a black felted table, and yes, I would have to say that it looks good when it is not being used, but the chalk gets EVERYWHERE, and when the dust accumulated, it looks horrible. Its too bad, because its a really expensive connally table. They never use it, its just for show.
 
According to wikipedia (which is sometimes wrong on this stuff) chalk started out being dyed green or green blue and only later did pure blue and other colors come into play.

Maybe the way it played out is... the chalk maker came up with the idea of dye either for decoration or because undyed chalk would just glow in the dark on any traditional green cloth. So he went with green. But then they noticed that it's harder to spot how dirty the table is since the colors were too close so they started introducing blue.

I guess we've been sticking with this combo because it somehow combines the best of both worlds... the chalk marks aren't invisible, but they aren't obvious either. I dunno if any other color combination can blend quite so perfectly.

And yeah, red tables are awful. I was surprised to find it's not bad playing on a deep brown one. It's super easy on the eyes and maybe not as ugly as you'd expect. I didn't like tan... maybe it's because our local version of 'tan' was more of a vomit/poop color than a soothing sandy color.
 
I like green cloth best. If blue were beneficial to any kind of eyesight, how come makers of optics put coatings on lenses to tone down the blue wavelengths?
As far as chalk goes blue or green, doesn't matter. Please just not red.
 
When I ran the gameroom back in college, people'd ask me the same question. Since there's no logical reason for blue chalk to play better than green, though in my opinion it does, I just told everyone the same thing. Green chalk causes cancer. ;)
 
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