Your DREAM table?

my 1882 eclipse

intense capathean burl and birdseye
 

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how about this table..lol.. only 125,000..... thats cheap!

lol.. i would rather have a nice Diamond table...

but i thought i would show this one here.. i am sure everybody saw them for sale on ebay..
I bet they are a pain in the balls to level....



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mikepage said:
And here I thought that Josey laying on my Gabriels in my pictures might convert you...

Oh well...
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er....umm.....oh "your dream table" i must have misread it! of course it's a Gabriel! ;) :D
 
The 10' Brunswick with snooker pockets that I grew up on, and a 9' Gabriel. Always thought I would like a 9' Diamond best until I played a session on a Gabriel with tight pockets...sweet!!
 
My Dream Table? Sweet Deal!

Here are a few pictures of my table. You have to read further to hear how much it cost. About 20 years ago,I told my wife's cousin, (who purchsed furniture in estate sales) to keep an eye out for an old table for me. A few months later he called, he was buying the contents of an old row house in the Olney section of Philadelphia. I met him at the house, and found the old table with no cloth in the basement. The manufacture plate on the table was the Clark-Herd company on 5th St in Philadelphia. All wood frame, 4 piece 1"slate, to me just an old table. It came with a set of old clay balls and 3 ivory cue balls. I took it home, and had new rails, pockets, and cloth installed, it has since been recovered 2 more times, most recently in blue cloth, & pockets tightened up.
Turns out that Clark-Herd did not manufacture tables, just sold and re-badged them. The table is a Brunswick New Acme model manufactured in 1882!
By the way, total cost out the door 20 years ago..............$75.00!
 

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14oneman said:
Forty years of playing pool and I have never even seen a 10' pool table.


I grew up playing on a 1945 Brunswick Centennial 5' x 10' gully table with TIGHT pockets.;)

That would be MY dream table. To get one just like the one I grew up playing on, only I'd change the rubber to Artemis Tournament Cushions and put Simonis 760 on it. A set of Centennial balls and a Diamond Pro ball rack. Take my black sharpie and mark the head string, foot string, and around the rack, and I'd be in Straight Pool Heaven!:D
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-BRUNSWI...ryZ21213QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

It says snooker table, but the pockets look like pool table pockets to me.
 
Gus said:
The table is a Brunswick New Acme model manufactured in 1882!
By the way, total cost out the door 20 years ago..............$75.00!
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Maybe 120 years ago?
 
skins said:
there's nothing like a gold crown. it's been the standard it seems like forever. imo all in all the best built, looking and playing line of tables that has ever been made.
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Very well said, I love my GC IV
 
Gus said:
Here are a few pictures of my table. You have to read further to hear how much it cost. About 20 years ago,I told my wife's cousin, (who purchsed furniture in estate sales) to keep an eye out for an old table for me. A few months later he called, he was buying the contents of an old row house in the Olney section of Philadelphia. I met him at the house, and found the old table with no cloth in the basement. The manufacture plate on the table was the Clark-Herd company on 5th St in Philadelphia. All wood frame, 4 piece 1"slate, to me just an old table. It came with a set of old clay balls and 3 ivory cue balls. I took it home, and had new rails, pockets, and cloth installed, it has since been recovered 2 more times, most recently in blue cloth, & pockets tightened up.
Turns out that Clark-Herd did not manufacture tables, just sold and re-badged them. The table is a Brunswick New Acme model manufactured in 1882!
By the way, total cost out the door 20 years ago..............$75.00!
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That is a beautiful table and room. Very nice sir and what a find!

I wouldn't mind a Diamond 9foot with returns ;)
 
Mr. Wilson said:
Maybe 120 years ago?
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To clarify, when I said out the door price was $75.00, that is what I paid for it 20 years ago. I have the brunswick brochure from 1882, & the cost of the table new was $300.00.
 
Cornerman said:
Smith's Billiards in Springfield, MA had several 10' pool tables up until just a few years ago. I think they were antique Medalists, but that's a guess. One by one, they disappeared (sold I assume), until none were left.

If I had a dream table, it would be one of those 10' tables from Smith's (Brunswick's from some World's Fair).

Here's a sight with an antique Medalist on it. http://www.billiardrestoration.com/tables.htm

Fred
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Hi Fred,

Are you from that area? I used to play at Smith's Billiards sometimes when I attended UMass-Amherst. A real old school room. Is it still open?
 
VIProfessor said:
Hi Fred,

Are you from that area? I used to play at Smith's Billiards sometimes when I attended UMass-Amherst. A real old school room. Is it still open?
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I was in there about a year ago.

I've even been schooled by Fred there....
 
hemicudas said:
Would you happen to be interested in gambling on that smaller size table, Tristan?
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Yes. But I'll warn you now, I'm a pretty highly rated 'bumps' player.

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Tristan
 
Hi SBJ,
Beautiful room. I am in the process of buying a 9' Anniversary. Love the light you made. If no trouble, could you tell me the basic dimensions, number and type of fluorescent bulbs/fixtures, etc? Type of wood used for the sides, how you made the grooves, etc? any and all info is good info.
Kind regards,
Jack McGee
 
Elizabeth McGee said:
Hi SBJ,
Beautiful room. I am in the process of buying a 9' Anniversary. Love the light you made. If no trouble, could you tell me the basic dimensions, number and type of fluorescent bulbs/fixtures, etc? Type of wood used for the sides, how you made the grooves, etc? any and all info is good info.
Kind regards,
Jack McGee
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Thanks for the compliment.

The light is 4X8 feet. An uncut 4X8 sheet of 1/4 inch masonite serves as the top cover. The wood is poplar, but I don't recall what stain I used. I tried to match the table as best I could. The sides are 1X6, with 2X2s at the corners.

The bottom trim and grid frames is 1X2, with the edges routered round. Since the earlier pictures, I've replaced the white egg crate grids with deeper silver parabolic grids, which focuses the light on the table much better, with less spillover. The lights are two tandem 8 foot flourescents. They each hold 4, 4 foot tubes (8 total).

Finally, the "grooves" on the light aren't really grooves at all, like they are on the table. The "grooves" on the light are automotive pinstriping.

Congrats on getting an Anniversary. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do mine.

Steve
 
mikepage said:
Here's mine, a Gabriels

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Corner pocket with 15 balls plus the cueball

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and a view from underneath

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Nothing even comes close to a Gabriel. First State Billiards in Dover Delaware has 4 of them kept in perfect condition by the pool player owner Jimmy. You just have to play on one to believe it.
 
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