Ole’s Tavern Pool Table Refelting

Here we are at Ole’s Tavern in beautiful, overcast, downtown San Clemente, CA. It was cool and overcast on Tuesday morning when we showed up to recover the two pool tables. The seven foot Global pool tables had been previously recovered with Championship’s “Tour Edition” euro blue cloth. The bar’s cleaning crew had made the mistake of using Armor-all to polish the pool table rails. This left an oily residue which was transferred to the felt. Then when a player would touch the felt with their hands, some not so clean. After a couple of months the felt started to become black in certain areas. So, needless to say, the felt looked bad, but it wasn’t worn out.

Mark, one of the owners, on the recommendation of his business partner, decided to have us refelt the pool tables. We replaced the tour edition cloth with “Aramith’s” 24oz. Worsted Tournament cloth. I believe this cloth to be a rival to “Simonis 860″ It looks and plays the same and costs about $15-$20 bucks a yard less. The two Global pool tables were in great shape, considering they were only a couple of years old. The only slight problem I encountered, was when we re-leveled the front pool table. I noticed that two diagonal opposing corners were low. Confused, I thought to myself, how is this possible? If I tried to raise slightly one corner, this would severely affect the opposite corner. After a while of chasing the bubble in my level, I decided to stop using the leg levelers. I loosened the the two end rails and placed a small shim underneath the slate of the two low corners and re-tightened the rail bolts. This seemed to help the problem. The other pool table was the total opposite, it leveled up perfectly with the use of the leg levelers.

Electric Elayna

We delivered this cute little 7′ C.L. Bailey cinnamon “Elayna”  to a nice family in Long Beach, CA. A great value at $1799. We have this pool table available in an 8′ size too. This family chose Electric Blue felt with a cinnamon stain. We also have Traditional Mahogany and Warm Chestnut stains.

Black & Tan Pool Table

This poor pool table sat in this Santa Ana, CA garage for a year while it’s owner found a permanent home. Thank God for understanding parents, While their son was out looking for a house to buy this newly acquired toy sat unused for a year on the garage floor just like you see it pictured here. Apparently our client (the son of said parents) had a buddy who was getting a divorce and refused to let the “ex” obtain the pool table. So he let his buddy have it for a steal of a deal, the only catch, it needed to be moved asap!

So in come the six friends and a pick-up truck routine, I’ve seen it before and I’m sure I’ll see it again. It’s not the safest way to move a slate pool table, but when the “ex” might get the thing, all hands on deck. The only obvious damage sustained were some gouges and scratches near the bottom of the frame and a couple of loose rails and blind aprons. So, destination, our client’s parent’s garage floor. Here it sat until Sonny Boy found himself some new diggs, which he did… in a nice 1920′s Santa Ana, CA home.

So we schedule the job for our client and show up at the parent’s house to dismantle the pool table and load it up. The felt on the slate was in pretty bad shape, there was a big tear in it. The rail cloth was still ok, our client thought about refelting the whole table but I mentioned to him that leaving the  camel colored felt on the rails and refelting the bed with black cloth would look cool. He liked the idea of having a black & tan pool table, we were also able to save him some money too! It was win-win for him, because he was having a party later that evening.

DK goes to Angel Stadium

Yesterday we went to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA to deliver and install the Fan Appreciation Day pool table. This pool table will be given away to one lucky fan in attendance on Sunday, September 26. We set-up the pool table right outside the Diamond Club.

Pool Table Experts on TV

To help Angels Baseball Celebrate Fan Appreciation Day, DK Billiard Service and Showroom is providing a pool table as a prize. That’s right a slate pool table will be given away to one lucky fan in attendance on Sunday, September 26 when the Angels host the Chicago White Sox. We’ll be delivering and setting up the prize pool table adjacent to the Diamond Club on Monday, September 6 where it will be on display for Angel’s Fans to see!

The lucky winner of the pool table prize will also be receiving local ground floor delivery, (50 miles from The Big A) set-up/leveling and a deluxe accessory kit.

Let’s go Angel’s Fans!