I have a client who has sold his table and now has a rare to find 4 section table cover in silver finish
Cloth underlined to protect cushion capping’s frieze and cushion cloth .
Simple sale £250 buyer collects .
You cannot make them for this kind of money , buyer to arrange collection from Walsall
Table is going tomorrow Saturday the 16th , table 4 section top are available from after this date .
PRIVATE SALE DIRECT FROM THE SELLER . collection to be arranged from High Wycombe , please read more >>>>>
We do not get many 10fts come up for sale and when they do , they normally sell very fast , especially if priced sensibly taking into account what it would cost to have one dismantled and delivered and set back up , so this one has been very Fairley priced and comes with all accessories as shown .
My client thought this was a 3/4 size but it is a bit larger than that , 9ft is 3/4 size , this one is a rear size to find at 10ft .
*** The table also comes with a hard top cover as used by the selling client as a dining table
Light is also included .
Size: 323 cm (L) x 174 cm (W) x 82 cm (H)
Slate bed
3-piece wooden dining top cover
Overhead green snooker light
Full set of cues and rests
Multiple sets of balls
Cue rack
Traditional scoreboard
Triangle and accessories
Not sure on rubber rebound value in cushions , but it definitely could do with a re-cloth and maybe new nets and leathers if required at same time .
The table is based in High Wycombe , and we could quote for the dismantle , traveling and setting back up if on ground floor at both ends . we could also recommend a firm if you collect and needed a fitter closer to you .
Contact Geoff at GCL Billiards for more information .
Been up to the north Lincolnshire – Notts border today just east of Doncaster .
Work involved the strip down of cushions and re-rubber and make the pockets the same size as a Star Table to WPBSA template openings as used on TV tournaments .
Using best Northern Rubber by Hainsworth .
Then a re-cloth in Strachan 6811 tournament cloth 30 oz .
The table was an old Hixon & sons with thick Welsh slate and a good solid frame .
With recessed into capping cushion cloth retaining slot to mimic steel cushions .
The table I think is circa turn of the century 1899 /1910 period .
There is some history to the table , as there are some paper labels to the cushions from the 1940s re-rubber , stating it belonged to a School in Leeds , called East Moor School in an area called Adel .
On looking up this school I find it was a Reform approved school for wayward Boys , which first opened its doors in 1857 . it was closed down around the 1970s I think .
This table went through a refurb by an unknown firm in 1985 having another re-rubber , but the pockets where all over the place in sizes .
My Client bought the table with the house so inherited it around 6 years ago .
My client who is a WPBSA coach wanted uniformity and as close to WPBSA size as possible .
Which I pulled this one off bang on , as you can see the templates fit snug to the angles .
It is a pity that the WPBSA do not allow Billiard fitters outside World Snooker , to have these templates , I had to rely on some very accurate copies of templates to do this work .
Something I think the WPBSA should look into , they do a lot of good work promoting snooker and the training of coach’s , but do not let the Billiard Fitters access to WPBSA templates , we have to rely on copies .
If there is no uniformity in the Tables , then younger generation are learning to play on Club pockets or Buckets as we call them .
We used to have the B&SCC templates , Billiards & control council , which are a little larger opening , and some like their tables to have that size , I just would like to offer both sizes and do it with proper templates , it looks more professional .
They could be made low priced on 3D Printers and then offered to proper time served Billiard fitting firms .
To add further to this story , I contacted a 3D printer service in Scotland who did make these WPBSA 2005 templates , and these are exact to my own wood ones , so I had him custom make me a set based on the 2005/6 Templates which are as close to what is used today give or take the thickness of a piece of paper each side or 2 MM at most .
As you can see they are more professional looking than my old Wood one .
and going forward will use these now for anyone wishing to have as close to professional size pockets .
Superb condition and priced to sell .
complete with accessories shown in the photos below . including light and iron .
If there was ever a Rolls Royce of billiard table makers then George wright would be it .
a lot of people go on about Burroughs and watts tables being the best , but ask any Billiards fitter who has worked on George Wright tables and they are made to a higher degree of workmanship .
thicker wood for the frames for a start , they where the first firm to use concealed pocket plates around 1895. and most have huge turned and carved legs , Reeded legs or fluted where the most favoured leg design along with tulip , which most firms used , but George wright made their tulip legs with more carving segments as can be seen in this example .
other billiard companies spaced the tulip carvings wider so they where easier to produce and less work . Tulip leg = a tulip flower opening upside down ..can you see it in the photos ?
Below a brief history from the snooker heritage site , please read more info of George Wright on that site if you wish .
George Wright & Co. (founded 1868) was a prominent London-based manufacturer renowned for early innovations in convertible billiard-dining tables, often featuring special adjusting screws for height regulation. They were also known for producing high-quality rollover tables and for being among the first to hold Royal Warrants from King Edward VII. snookerheritage.co.uk
Key Achievements and Specializations:
George Wright was a major competitor to established makers like Thurston and Burroughs & Watts by the turn of the 20th century, especially favored after Queen Victoria’s passing in 1901 .
Please visit the Snooker Heritage site to see what Peter Ainsworth the author has written about George Wright the billiards firm
link here https://snookerheritage.co.uk/articles/geo-wright-co/
My selling client is now selling this very nice condition table , which has been renovated at some point in its life so should play very well , as you can see the table is from a very grand house and the sale is through my clients PA . who I am in correspondence with .
I have explained the costing to my selling clients that a buyer would have to pay on top of any price of the table to have it relocated , so we have agreed a selling price of just £1500 for this grand piece of Billiards furniture .
If any buyer would like a quote to have the table relocated from its ground floor room to another Ground floor room then GCL Billiards would be happy to quote , but the buyer is free to choose any billiards firm in the country .
please study thy following photos of the actual table .
An early table from its 13 gold medal ivory cushion badge , and circa I think around 1889 onwards ?
I will find out from Peter Ainsworth on that date as he is the Billiards Historian on plates and dating , I am going from the none top plate pocket plates which where not used after 1895 , but here we see an earlier 1889 table design with later 1895 concealed plates , what I think has happened is George wright has taken the cushions in and recapped the cushions for concealed plates or made a later set of cushions and reused the ivory badge .
this was not uncommon as designs change and people wanting the newer design of 1895 concealed pocket plates without having to change the table .
so on this table we date it by the Badge and not the pocket plates .
I did notice from the photos of the highly flamed mahogany capping’s to the cushions
seen in the first photo , they may have upgraded that too .
a very desirable George wright table with history . have you a nice room for this table , this would make a very nice statement to a larger household.
Yes, the SAM Balmoral pool table features a “ProActive” cushion system designed to emulate the performance of steel block cushions found on professional snooker tables.
These are £4499.00p on john parrot sports web site , my client says the cloth is a bit bobbly so it will require a re-cloth . although no rips are in the cloth . it was just the wrong choice of cloth when fitted .
Or if you are happy with it use it as is for a while as it is , if you wish just to buy it then save for a re-cloth at a later date .
My client is looking for just £1500 for the table A BARGAIN PRICE for one of these as it stands on site .
NOW REDUCED TO MAKE A REASONABLE OFFER !
I relocated this table for my client a couple of years ago from his fathers house .
And noted then it was in extremely good condition .
As an extra a re-cloth can cost anywhere between £350 and £450 depending on cloth grade and colour .
The price of the table is as it stands on site with its original cloth on it , the buyer is responsible to organise the dismantle and loading onto their van to take away .
This table is a free play table finished in Oak .
See photos for shade of oak finish cabinet and legs .
7ft
Exterior Dimensions – 214cm x 122cm
Slate Dimensions – 186cm x 94cm
Weight – 250kg
Even if you paid for a re-cloth the price would still be below £2000
and a whopping saving of around £2500 from new price .
Sam pool tables are built like a tank , where more lower cost UK tables are made from low cost materials , these SAM tables made in Spain are made from the best materials , and therefore cost over twice as much as say a supreme winner the market leader here in the UK , you may even see these SAM Balmoral tables for sale over £5000 , but John parrot was the lowest price I could find of £4499.00p
I have a few clients who swear by the quality of their Balmoral or Atlantic 7ft pool table .
The Balmoral in my opinion is made for the Home with its modern rounded look , while the Atlantic with its sharper angled lines and faceted diamond chrome embellishments is for industrial pool hall use .
The Atlantic looks more fun fair bling table
The Balmoral just sits right for in the Home .
If you would like a bespoke dismantle loading , traveling unloading and erect on site with a re-cloth of choice , then GCL Billiards will quote for this Ground floor to Ground floor only .
The table is located close to Loughborough / Leicester area . and is on a ground floor room .
I have the best Hainsworth cloths in stock even stock Ultimate pool in teal .
PLEASE NOTE , the cost of a re-cloth and removal delivery and set up is not included in the £1500 price of the table , for a quote for these extras please contact Geoff at GCL Billiards for a quote giving post code in full and NO STAIRS .
Been local very close to Belvoir Castle to renovate the Riley Snooker table of Mark , a returning client .
A table I moved from a neighboring village to him and owned then by a well known Sky TV sports reporter .
of which I moved the table for him also a few years back .
Well the cushions where a bit dead the last time I relocated the table , having had some inferior cushion rubber fitted to it around the early 1980s .
The best snooker / billiards rubber to fit to a table is Northern Rubber , used to be made in Retford Nottinghamshire , but now manufactured all in house out in Malaysia but still to the old Nottinghamshire N.R. based specification , and owned and run by Hainsworth a UK Leeds firm .
Photo above my gluing board , allows all 6 rubbers backing to be covered in glue in one go .
Rubber is sanded to give a key to the gluing surface , before glue is applied .
The cushions stripped and cleaned of old rubber and glue , rebate sanded to give a key to surface
and coated with glue .
Cloth of choice and asked for by this client was Strachan 6811 Tournament 30 oz weight .
all pure new wool .
I do give my Clients a choice of cloth and colour and grade and advise then to the play to expect
form the different brands and thickness and grades and cloth mix .
2 main cloth firms I use are Strachan and Hainsworth …both I am please to say UK manufacturers of the highest grades of Billiards cloth .
Mark standing , looking at the finished table , he was delighted in the cloth colour , and the workmanship
The table is located in a out building .
Looks very nice with the new nets and leathers .
Centre pockets flush to slate fall , some fitters do struggle to achieve this , but you will find that Time served fitters do work to this high quality .
We have seen some shocking work by so called fitters , based all around the UK , so be careful who you employ to dot he work for you , I was sent one photo only this week by a fitter and he found a shocking attempt to do a re-cloth and pull the cloth nice and neat down the fall .
As an example of what we may find on a table from previous fitters work .
To finish off , Mark was that pleased with the work he let me fit one of our GCL Billiards name plates on the Black ball end of the table .
We have a client based near Shrewsbury , who has a nice mahogany Birmingham billiards Classic Monarch 10ft snooker table for sale , complete with the table are Balls , Cues , wall rack , Brush , 4 shade light , and cover , and scoreboard . I think he mentioned billiard ball set too .
Current price for a Classic Monarch from Birmingham billiards is £7600 + Vat fitted .
My Client knows the table will cost a bit to have collected and delivered and set back up .
so the price reflects this at just £1250 …could have asked for more but this is what they will go for these days second hand .
As you can see the table is in good condition , If the buyer would like a price to collect the table deliver and set up , then Geoff at GCL Billiards will quote you for this .
not many 10fts for sale on the market at the moment , they all seem to be full size , so grab a Bargain .
if you have not got the space for a 12ft full size then the next best thing is this 10ft by 5ft Table .
NOW SOLD
We have a table for sale from a client , now this table has steel cushions on it , and it is a Riley Table , but it has one small slate chip underneath on one joint , I have been informed this does not go right through the thickness and the top is not damaged , but it may mean one bolt fastener may not be available to use , making 5 bolts on that cushion rather than 6 .
also the slate muntin’s ( Slate bearers ) are not adjustable , which I would recommend on r the next set up that they have adjustable brackets fitted , this makes for a much more stable table leveling .
So the asking price has been drastically dropped from £3000 to £1600 .
The steel cushions alone are worth the asking price .
here are a few photos , for someone not bothered about one bolt missing and that may not be the case yet , who ever is used to dismantle and set up can make that assessment at that time , it could be a BARGAIN BUY , LOOK UP WHAT A RILEY STEEL CUSHION ARISTOCRAT IS BRAND NEW TODAY ?
I could source another set of slates from another table but these are not owned by the seller .
Price is for the table as it stands on site with all accessories , it does not include any dismantle loading transporting and setting back up , or the extra work of fitting 6 adjustable muntin brackets .
or the repair or replacement exchange of slates if required .
Now look at this chip of slate , it could be that the fitters dropped it on the corner edge as they placed it on the frame , it could be from overtightening of a slate cushion bolt , this could be cemented back together and the slate repaired on this underside piece , and it will not effect the top playing surface if it has not travelled the full thickness of the almost 2 inch thick slate slab .
It could be an easy fix and all 6 bolts be ok , at worse it could be only 5 bolts on that side cushion , if you are fussy then the cost of a second hand set of Italian slates ardessio biggio type is required .
But seen much worse than this on a table , mainly due to rough handling of a fitters not fit to do the work.
You can only look at any slate defect once the cloth is off .
You cannot go from this photo
But look at the price , I have seen these tables go for £5000 on the second hand market and none less than £3500 , my client is honorable seller and because he spotted this , has decided to take a lower offer because of the slate chipped out like this .
In my opinion , nothing a bit of Car body filler will rectify , seen much far worse repaired than this .
Geoff Large, expert table fitter with over 40 years of experience. All aspects of snooker, pool and 9 ball table recovers, repairs and maintenance.
My services include:
Hainsworth Toptable recommended table fitter.
West of England 100% pure new wool first grade cloth used, no seconds.
