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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2011 16:50:26 GMT
After a bit of snooping, I've discovered this link: www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Bar-Billiard-Table-in-OakFor a while I've been aware that there is a refurbisher based in Surrey, and this is it, Academy Billiard Co. of West Byfleet. Their speciality is acquiring authentic old tables, and doing them up smartly to sell at around the £1000 mark. I have seen similar refurbishers offering their wares at double the price, so I would say this one is a market leader, if you're going for that sort of thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2011 21:07:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 13:17:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 13:26:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 13:45:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 17:36:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2011 17:27:48 GMT
Arcade-style table by R.G.Mitchell of Skegness: * cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330627010982Sav refers to these disparagingly as 'bathtubs' but I think they're pretty good for what they are. ;) ;D * RG Mitchell now owned by Northern Leisure Group, who took over Rank in 1999. |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Oct 17, 2011 19:45:38 GMT
Fibreglass bathtub in Narrow Sams config - No thank you :-* :-* :-*
Sav
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2011 10:45:10 GMT
Fibreglass bathtub in Narrow Sams config - No thank you :-* :-* :-* Sav Not easy on the discerning eye, maybe, but it's very existence poses some interesting questions.............. - How many of this type were manufactured?
- Where were they installed originally?
- Have any of our members actually seen one?
- Did they all end up in private hands?
If the production run was for, say, 6 - intended for Butlins Holiday camps, maybe, as the manufacturer was based in Skegness? - then they could actually turn out to be a collectors item. :-/ Being made with a fibreglass base and having folding legs does have the opposite attribute of making them lighter for transport and I should imagine easy for storage. |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Oct 18, 2011 12:14:15 GMT
I have!! physically had hands on a couple, they're not that badly made! seen about a dozen for sale over the years.
Sav.
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Post by BFG on Oct 18, 2011 20:54:43 GMT
Just wondering if we got any further with the one we called the "Sams alike"
I bought one of these some while ago it is now sitting proudly in my consevatory...a very beautiful table it is too! ;D
The only other one I have seen like it is the one at the British Legion at East Preston...although thanks to Mr H it is now a little shorter :(
Just like a sams but a little taller
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 20:51:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 17:49:41 GMT
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Post by daveuk1 on Nov 28, 2013 19:35:49 GMT
i think i should go to spec savers cos according to my eyes it doesn't have a 100 hole, looking at the scores on the ball tray the socres go:
50 30 20 10 200 10 20 30 50
Is this another new form of the game someone has come up with?
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Post by Q on Nov 28, 2013 23:22:04 GMT
i think i should go to spec savers cos according to my eyes it doesn't have a 100 hole, looking at the scores on the ball tray the socres go: 50 30 20 10 200 10 20 30 50 Is this another new form of the game someone has come up with? 100 hole is definately there, but what you do find on some tables is that they economise on ball return chutes, the 100 & 200 coming down the same one, normally it is marked 100/200 on the tray. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 23:27:09 GMT
Easily rectifiable with a black marker pen, Dave ! (You can't have two 30 holes and two 10 holes, Q, one of the 10s is obviously meant to be the 100 hole).
Not so sure about how to get round the one put up yesterday with the damaged pegs, though.........a bit of creative carpentry involving dowel pins I suppose.
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Post by dipper on Apr 2, 2016 17:17:45 GMT
A friend of mine has just bought a Supreme Bar Billiard table, is this usually a four pin or a three pin table?. Is it the narrow version.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 18:59:19 GMT
You weren't able to stop him in time, then, Rog !  Narrow = suitable for Four-Pin. Though it's down to personal taste. Nothing to stop him buying a sheet of round stickers (£1 at local stationers). As long as he has an extra pin he can then change between versions as the mood takes him.  |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 2, 2016 20:53:57 GMT
Supremes are normally standard width I believe
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Post by daveuk1 on Apr 3, 2016 0:13:48 GMT
All the supreme tables I've seen are normal width, it would be interesting to know if they make a narrow version.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2016 9:52:19 GMT
Yes indeed as far as we know all Supremes are of standard (36") width. Where there can be a variation concerns the bed: the earliest ones were manufactured using an mdf base rather than a proper slate. Difference is explained quite well here: www.libertygames.co.uk/faq/answer/mdf-vs-slate-pool-tables/ |
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Post by daveuk1 on Apr 3, 2016 13:16:33 GMT
We have a wooden top in our league, just as well we dont take our game too seriously as to say the table is a challenge is an understatement
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Post by dipper on Apr 3, 2016 16:17:35 GMT
He did comment on the top being lighter than the base. Which means it could be MDF.
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Post by tommo III on Jul 19, 2022 20:46:19 GMT
Fibreglass bathtub in Narrow Sams config - No thank you :-* :-* :-* Sav Not easy on the discerning eye, maybe, but it's very existence poses some interesting questions.............. - How many of this type were manufactured?
- Where were they installed originally?
- Have any of our members actually seen one?
- Did they all end up in private hands?
If the production run was for, say, 6 - intended for Butlins Holiday camps, maybe, as the manufacturer was based in Skegness? - then they could actually turn out to be a collectors item. :-/ Being made with a fibreglass base and having folding legs does have the opposite attribute of making them lighter for transport and I should imagine easy for storage. Interesting find, but I can't vouch for the accuracy of this claim of the origins of Snookerette ! |
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