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NOW SOLD ….you got to be quick for tables like this .

You have a choice you can collect from Long Eaton as it is for £750 to include balls cues and triangle .
or Re-clothed in Strachan green 6811 cloth at £1000 .
Inspection before you buy no problem .
other cloth grade options and colours available if you require it but at slightly higher price .
for example Hainsworth Match green £1025 or Hainsworth match powder blue or silver grey £1050 .

*Delivery and install within 20/30 miles £100 for van and 2 mend for this table to ground floor only installation .

Supreme match prince is now over £2300 new / this table is less than half the price second hand .
and will play just as good .
The design of the top has not changed in over 30 years , top surround and corners / slate cushions and pockets are still the same as currently produced .
Cushions where replaced around three years ago so rubber is very good .
and the ball runs too replaced for current full slot gully type .

Above the actual table once re-clothed , this was taken 6 months ago on site .
the table will look like this for £1000

or below as it is now for £750 cloth not bad at 6 months wear .
Coin mech can be set up to play on 50p or a £1 or Free play .
just by changing blank spaces inside the coin mech .
or Blanking all in for free play .
I can do this before you buy the table .

A local client in Sutton in Ashfield Nottinghamshire , who has two pubs with both having Bar billiard tables in .
Contacted Geoff at GCL billiards to carry out a re-cloth in Hainsworth match cloth on his bar billiard table having not having much luck finding a firm willing to do these tricky re-cloths .
I was recommended by the News house in Nottingham having recently re-clothed their bar billiard table .

First part was to take slate out and strip and clean off the face and the holes of glue and cloth .
then glue edge and ring holes and fit bed cloth , cut out star cuts to accept rings , tap rings into place making sure they are tight and cannot sink , mark out fit black break off pad , but retain original burgundy brown end zone of leatherette .

and below some other Bar Billiard tables I have re-clothed in the past year

Now Taking bookings for Table relocations , re-clothing , re-rubber or new cushions , nets leathers or pool table pockets replaced .
Or anything that a billiards fitter can put right on a cue sports table .
I have had two months recovering from a hand operation , been the longest 2 months ever , cannot wait get back to work and back up and running again , my left hand has healed and is getting much stronger the more I use it , so work is the best way of getting back to 100% use again .
work has started to come back in , And I have been back at work for the last two weeks doing just pool table re-clothing , but have done a full size snooker table install and a full dismantle and relocation this weekend .
My hand works perfectly and with 47 years experience as a billiards fitter , I still have at least 5 more years full time in me .

We are getting a lot of inquiries to remove full size snooker tables and just getting rid of them , TAKE THEM AWAY FREE people say , this is not a FREE SERVICE I’m afraid , two fitters wages van use Fuel insurances all have to be paid for .
We offer a recycling service at a cost of removing , but we have to take the table all apart and remove all none recycling waste from it, cloth rubber metal tacks screws and bolts all have to be removed for our recycler to take the wood away , the slate is also recycled into fire places , but these have to be polished cut to size to make into a fireplace .
the cost to remove a table and recycle is down to distance , BUT please note we do not now take tables up or down stairs , we only remove Ground floor tables with no more than a couple of steps involved which we can ramp .
We used to do the stair work but as you get older this has become too much for us .
We are both in our 60’s now .

Only a hand full of Cue sports table fitters around the UK have been approved by Hainsworth as being reliable and competent , to carry out your Cue sports fitting of cloth and table .
They do not hand out these recommendations without fully screening the firm as trustworthy and of a certain level of experience .
It does help though if you can be traced back from firm to firm over a 47 year period , and have feed back to prove that we do care about our clients tables .

Geoff Large at GCL billiards started working on Billiard tables in 1976 , and has worked with 3 Time served billiard table fitters and three different firms, gleaning a bit of experience from each fitter , add a bit of self learning and improving , and now with over 47 years of fitting experience .
Geoff worked for Elston & Hopkin of Nottingham for 24 years 1980 to 2004 , where most of his experience was learnt and perfected .

Hainsworth Billiard cloth , available in grades to suit your play and table design , also an extensive colour choice for Smart and Elite pro cloths , an interiors decorators delight in matching a cloth colour to a rooms décor .
And speed of cloth to suit all types of play , from Club hard wearing cloth , to thinner Professional standard .
Hainsworth smart for instance has a fine nap for what we would call a club cloth , and therefore much faster than the other brands on the market which have a longer coarser nap .

We use a Billiards Stimp Meter ramp to test the speed of a table and also rebound value of rubber cushions .

We often have to prove that cushion is not responding well and in need of rubber replacements , most of the time this is obvious to the player when playing a shot off the cushion and ball not reacting to the pace it hit the rubber cushion at ,and also when a table is stripped down of cloth and you inspect the rubber .
The Stimp meter ramp is also used to demonstrate cloth speed , a long napped cloth is much slower on ball run than a no napped speed cloth .
this Stimp Billiard table meter was manufactured by the late Dave Gibson of Beeston Nottingham in the 1980s , he used it to test his own tables in his billiard hall at Beeston Nottingham .
I purchased the Stimp Meter from his widow on Dave’s passing ,and use it often .
The ramp also has a laser red dot light that projects a red dot to the back of the ball as it leaves the ramp to show roll off due to nap direction or unliveliness of the table .
A ball clamp to give precise set release of the ball unassisted ball fall is required to get exact readings and measurements .
this photo shows a rebound value of 338.5 centimetres or 133and 1/4 inch .