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PRIVATE SALE …DIRECT FROM SELLING CLIENT NO MIDDLEMEN .

TABLE IS A PRIVATE SALE AND IS PRVATLEY OWNED it is only being advertised on our site on behalf of the current owner

I have fitted this table for the last owner and the owner before that , and the last owner had new cloth , new nets and leathers , and it has had very little use since then , and from the photos the cloth and nets and leathers are still as new , very little if any at all use . a room filler as we call them in the trade .
You may notice this table has the very large turned Grand duke legs from a full size Enbild table and in the rare solid oak wood .
The legs do have a bit of wood movement cracks in I noticed the last time I set it up and you can see this in the photo .Very common on oak legs .
A bit of oak colour wax to fill these in would be my suggestion .
As for price in this condition we are looking for £1500 ovno .
one word or warning the table is located upstairs , and the buyer would have to organise the removal and taking down the stairs the sectional parts , the good news is 8ft slates in three sections do not weigh much , unlike full size tables , if you take a strip of old carpet that is around 20ft long and the width of the stairs you could gently slide the slates down one at a time .
GCL Billiards would quote for the collection but this table is on the south coast .
I do know of other fitting firms south of London though , if you wish to have another firm of your choice then no problem .

All inquiries to Geoff at GCL Billiards .

Email c.large@btinternet.com

Tel 07753466064

We prefer email inquiries only please ….as it is easier to then introduce you to the selling client

Please note .
No bartering once there looking at the table please .
The table is well worth the asking price and buyer is responsible in dismantle and removing the table , either by their own means or by hiring a billiards firm to do this , there is no dismantling delivery and fitting in the sale price .
the price for the table as it stands on site .

Payment is up front in full before you start dismantling .
If dismantling and removing yourself , please be carefull of the selling persons property , it is really a profesional billiards firms work to take one of these apart and put it back together , a firm would have the man power and blankets to protect stairs and property .

Note split in leg , fill this with oak wax , it is very normal for oak legs this size to have a bit of movement .
These are Grand Duke model legs , very rare to find these on smaller tables .
but this 8ft is made just like a full size so if you do not have room for a full size but wnat the expierience of potting on cushions and pockets of a full size and could fir an 8ft in , then this is the table for you
To have one made like this today would cost over £5k .

Table comes with dust cover , scoreboard , balls , cues and rests .

We have a PRIVATE SALE client , who wishes to sell their very good condition BCE westbury table , the tbale has standard cushions and not the steel cushions , other wise the table would be closer to £3.5k or even higher .
This full size table is a Bargain come and get me price of just £1000 , buyer arranges collection
All inquiries to geoff at GCL Billiards for further information .

As you can see from the above photo , the table is in very good condition , you will need to employ a firm like us , GCL Billiards , to dismantle and pick up the table and load onto a van and travel to your home unload and to set back up again , please ask Geoff for a price , and give post code please .
BCE Westbury tables where used in the 1990s top tournaments on TV .
BCE tables are Known for there sturdy twin bolted pocket plates with extra broad bow leathers with angled front , to take balls at speed into the pocket , with very little chance of ball bouncing back onto table like some designs .

I have been away on holiday for two weeks , if you have made an inquiry for work on a cue sports table and not recieved an answer , my message machine system has been faulty while away so have not been able to play back messages .
If you call back on my home office phone 0115 9725355 or my mobile 07753466064 .
I will be happy to talk about work , we are very busy , and have a lot of table moves to do in September , also note I am working away for a week from October 3rd to the 10th .

Regards

Geoff Large
NBSA approved billiards fitter
GCL Billiards

Table is based in the Gloucester Area
9ft snooker table in solid oak , large bulbous fluted legs , very expensive when bought new .
For sale at a Bargain price as it stands on site at £1500 .

Please note this does not include delivery and fitting , this is a private sale from a selling client direct .
if you wished GCL Billiards would be happy to quote the Collection dismantle and loading , the traveling and delivery , unloading set up and cloth refitting ready for play .
GCL Billiards in Geoff Large has 50 years personal fitting expierience , so you can be assured of a first class workmanship , from a time served apprenticship .

Please contact Geoff at GCL Billiards for further information … ( please note I am on holiday for the next two weeks back on September the 3rd . )
this was a last minute advert put on the day before my Holiday .
but please email so you are first in line for this table for when I get back ..first come first served .

Table will come with Balls and cue rack and scorebaord and brush only .

Contact Geoff for more details . c.large@btinternet.com

We have a client who wishes to purchase a full size Burroughs and watts snooker table
Condition is everything , so the asking price may vary depending on what you have for sale
and what is included with it .

Tables like the following is what my client is after

We have a client who is selling all her billiard room equipment separately from the table .
please look at other items listed in this bundled together package

Here we have a very nice tall pedestal rotating cue rack , I think 7 cues per side and there are three sides , so this rack will take 21 cues , a very nice piece of billiard room equipment to display your cue collection .
There is also 4 machine period spliced Burroughs and watts cues , and a couple of other cues a Raper and a Thurston , both old cues but have been used as a x rest .
And to complete this bundle we have a very nice period Victorian framed in glass rules by Burroughs & Watts

A smaller modern repro Chinese round standing rack is £600 at john parrots sport shop on line , why buy a low cost one at that price when this one is just a bit more , have a look just compare the quality
also on a Southern Billiards site is a cue rack that is almost identical in age and design to this for sale at £1200 .
I value the cue rack at £750 alone , the period framed B&W rules at £200 , the cues at £120 = £1070.00p

ALL REDUCED TO JUST £600 for all items

I have sold all the other equipment for this client including her table scoreboard and other cues .

So all that remains are these items which we have bundled together for just £600 the lot .for a Bargain come and get me price , to be collected from Pontesbury Shropshire near Shrewsbury .

all that you see below photos advertised in listing is in this bundle , the lighting shade too if still there .

We have a returning client , the last time I did work for him 12 years ago , it was to rectify a badly made imported 8ft Snooker diner
and take the badly designed raise and fall click clack riley system off , and replace it with a fixed height sub frame .
with adjustable cross bearers for ease of leveling .
Today it was to a new build Bungalow he had just built , and install a proper made Thurston 10ft .
and re-cloth and fit new nets and leathers .

First a link to his old 8ft snooker diner table job I did in February 2014 , that just had glued on cross member planks which fell off .and balls rolled to middle as the centre of the slate was not supported on its long span with no anti bow beams , not built strong enough to support the lentgh of slate to stop sagging .
I suspect it was made in China and sold by a UK firm up North in the Preston area , as their own UK made one .
it was a terrible design , and one I have come across often .
and there is not fix unless it is completley rebuilt with anti bow beams and proper mortice and tennon screwed to slate sub frame , a costly back to factory or workshop fix , so the fixed upper sub frame to fill in gap was the low cost option of sorting it . for playing at least , which to my client was the main thing he wanted as the lowered dining part was only used at christmas .

https://gclbilliards.com/fixed-height-subframe-fitted-to-poor-designed-dual-lifting-snooker-dining-table/

here are the photos of his new 10ft table in his new Home .
A much better made table , UK made italian slate , and the best Brazillian mahogany used in its construction .
it also had adjustable slate bearer muntins to stop any risk of sagging slate across its width .
The slates where also hand floated from new .
A sign of extra quality , on a modern built table from 1990s onwards .