Aristocrat Steel Block table £4750 FITTED IS NOW SOLD DEPOSIT PAID

NOW ……..SOLD SOLD SOLD !
The table has now been reserved with a deposit direct to the seller .

In TV Tournament silver legs and frame embellishments … A , WPBSA COACH’S , personal table .

An rare opportunity due house move to purchase a much desired Riley Aristocrat with Steel Cushions , just like what the pro’s play on , this table will give you the same conditions as what Ronnie O’sullivan plays on .
The table is owned by a current WPBSA Snooker Coach , I have personally dismantled and set up three tables for this WPBSA Snooker Coach , each time upgrading from his first table a 9ft 3/4 size to a BCE full size standard cushion , then upgraded this Riley Aristocrat steel cushion table which is what he always wanted to aspire to .
These Riley Aristocrat Match tables are much better woodwork and build quality than the Chinese Star Table . ASK ANY BILLIARDS FITTER who has worked on both .
This table is for sale as a fitted table anywhere to ground floor with in 100 mile radius of Nottingham , if you are further away or have stairs then ask as we can get a quote for you .
I should think it is now due for a re-cloth and I am told it has mark on one of the cushion capping .
BUT …. The price includes all accessories shown including the lights.
A Brand new Riley Aristocrat today will cost you £11499 without steel cushions and £13249 with steel cushions ….so for £4750 delivered fitted and re-clothed bed and cushions in Hainsworth Match cloth .
And cushion capping’s stained and re-polished , that’s a saving of whopping…. £8499 from new price !

If anyone would like to make an offer for the table as it is without delivery and new cloth and cushion capping re-polished and stained , you are most welcome to do it that way if you have your own fitter and polisher .
This is the actual table in the photos with all accessories that is included with the Table as seen laid out in the photos .
plus the lights .

All inquiries to Geoff Large at GCL billiards .



Phones still playing up and also Internet connection very low .


***Although today as I post this , BT have sent us a Dongle to gain internet connection so it may work , which they should have done from day one as they disconnected copper lines , with no fibre even in the ground , and where their fault .

BT and Open Reach , still drag their heals in making a good connection for me
we are still operating mainly on my mobile phone 077534 66064
all though the land line phone has been working , it is a bit hit and miss .
Our internet is very low powered and some days impossible to even connect .
Please use mobile as contact until further notice .
If I do not answer it may be I am hands on , on a job , please leave a message and I will get back to you
Also I am away on Holiday from 17th May for two weeks , back in office on June 2nd .
Hopefully Open Reach and BT and the local planning office ( Council ) will have sorted our Fibre connection problems .
The road has to be dug up and we now find they have to gain Planning for that .
which has to take due course .

Not at my House .

BT LAND LINE FOR GCL BILLIARDS STILL DOWN 07753466064 MOBILE IN USE UNTIL BACK ON LINE

PLEASE PHONE MOBILE 07753466064 as OPEN REACH have still not connected me back up due to their Open Reach or BT ENGINEERS own fault of cutting the wires at the main box , as he thought we had been connected to fibre .

This is still frustrating for us as a business , and it is costing me bookings for work .
having to rely on clients seeing my post on my web site , and then contacting me either through my mobile or email address below.

c.large@btinternet.com

We are getting compensation of just £6 a day while we are down and not connected .
Something I am now looking into with a solicitor for breach of contract .

OPEN REACH The people that make the NET WORK is their motto on the side of their vans .
well mines not working .

BT LAND LINE TELEPHONE NUMBER IS DOWN AT GCL BILLIARDS for now phone mobile 07753466064.

Due to a right Cock up by Openreach , they put us onto a Fibre tariff yet have not connected fibre to us as promised fibre connection this last Monday the 31st of March .
They where supposed to dig a trench in our front lawn and connect us to Fibre Optics on that Day
and take out or disconnect the old slow coper wire connection .
they arranged this date and never showed up , we got around £30 compensation and £6 per day while it is not connected and for not showing up for their appointment , I took the day off waiting in for them to come .
I even laid a tough hollow protection pipe with pull through wire for connection for them under our new resin path from house to the lawn where they will be digging the trench , so they did not have to dig that resin path and blockwork up too , to make the whole job much easier for them .
I had the foresight to do this months ago when the new drive way and path was laid as I knew they would be coming round fitting fibre ….. I did the same for next doors who also had Resin driveway laid at the same time .

But , Then BT Openreach, disconnected our old cable connection at the main distribution exchange box on the corner of our estate about three streets away , as on their system we where supposed to be connected to Fibre .
so their instructed engineer cut the old copper wire system off TODAY .
The only way we can get connected back up to the old cable is to now cancel the fibre fitting , but if we do that it could be months before they come round again to connect fibre .
So for the time being we have no Land Line connection .
I expect this to go on for at least a week maybe more .

So any phone calls please use my Mobile on 07753466064
Please be patent for a reply as I may be working on a clients table , leave a text message or voice mail if I do not answer .



Pleasure to work on such a Nice Burroughs & Watts Billiard Table

This week I had the pleasure of working on this very nice large bulbous fluted leg Burroughs & Watts Billiard / snooker Table circa around 1910 .
My client was having problems with the rubber not bouncy enough , and the pockets where not all the same size .
I stripped the table down to find the last re-rubber by Burroughs and Watts was in 1954 , my client had purchased the table from another firm who had claimed to have completely refurbished the table , this was not the case as the photo of the rubber proved having 54 code year on it .
the other firm had made fantastic job of the re-polish though as the photos show , so full credit to them on that part of the refurb work .

Photo above of the actual rubber I took off the table , showing the 54 date code , most rubber made had a date code on them a practice still used on Northern rubber , which now has a boxed moulded in date code where the year is present then 12 boxes with dots in it showing the expired months , so if a rubber had 24 on it and then 5 boxes with a dot in them , the date of manufacture would be 2024 and the month of May . as can be seen below in this advert by Hainsworth who own the rights to Northern Rubber now .

The above date code on this advert example is 2018 and 7 dots in box section = July .
you can see the next year is 2019 an boxes have dots in them , each dimple dot is drilled into the casting as each month ends forming a moulded raised dot , a simple method .
The old method of dating rubber was just a stamp on top of the rubber which is easy to sand off , so that is why they switched to the moulded box dot method of dating rubber .

Above old method of dating rubber was a stamped on painted print , easy to remove .
so that is why they switched to imprinting in moulding, of box month dating and year .

If you see this has been removed you know someone is trying to hide the year it was last done
also look for the yellow dot in Northern Rubber , this to stop the Chinese copying it .
The yellow dot insert is your guarantee it is Genuine Northern Rubber as used on Professional TV Tour tables , by World snooker .

Here are the finished photos of my clients table , as you can see my Client has a very nice bottom of the garden games Room , the table has heated slates , and I have changed the rubber to Northern Rubber , cloth used was Hainsworth Match cloth on the bed , and Hainsworth thicker smart cloth on the cushions , as these take a lot of wear , more so than the bed cloth .
The ball rails where also changed for more modern chromed type with 4 rail bars in them and the two spot end rails where extra long to collect more red balls at that end .
I would also like to point out that the cushions mahogany is extremely heavy , these would play the same as steel block cushions , they where made from Cuban Mahogany , a very hard and heavy wood just like lignum vitae as used on crown bowl balls , and it is extremely rare to find these on a table , and as a Billiards fitter of 48 years now , I can only say I have only come across a dozen tables on my rounds in the past , out of thousands of tables I have worked on to have these fitted .
So if you are lucky enough to have one of these sets of cushions on your table , you are very lucky .
In 1910 a table like this would have been the same price of a terraced or semi detached house , so this table would have been in a very rich household , and from the labels on it from the previous firm that moved it , from the Bath area of UK when it was first installed .

Carved large bulbous reeded leg full size snooker table for sale . £750 . May be a George Wright manufacture

May be a George Wright manufacture . as he used this leg design often of reeded bulbous legs .
The table has very large circumference legs , which are carved reeded type as used by George wright .
there are scrolls at each side of each leg , and you also have scrolls and a Scallop shell carved design in the frame work too .
Ignore the Arthur Perry & Son plaque this is a later re-rubber plaque put on by Perry when they carried out a refurb of cushion rubber ,and it is advertising A Reliance cushion rubber .
A very nice looking table with buttons on the cushions rather than a slide in panel .
I would say circa 1920s
My client is looking for £750 for the table with accessories as shown .
The price is for the table as is on site , and any removal costs will be the buyers responsibility .
I am sure the table requires a re-cloth , looking at the photos too .
But is priced correct at just £750 .as any buyer will need to factor in removal costs and a re-cloth .
this table done up by a billiards firm would be in excess of £5k to £6.5k .


All inquiries to Geoff or Carol at GCL billiards .