Seven good reasons why your pool table should be made of solid hardwood:
• Hardwoods have a superior ability to hold nails and screws and withstand stresses.
• Hardwood construction techniques utilize less hardware which can bend or loosen over time.
• Hardwoods lend themselves to all manner of furniture styles and carving.
• Hardwoods can be sanded and refinished.
• Hardwoods have distinctive one of a kind characteristics in their grain structure and appearance that add beauty and value.
• Hardwoods, as opposed to metals, plastics, veneers and MDF, have the necessary elasticity for proper leveling and accurate play.
• Tables built of solid hardwoods hold their value decade after decade, becoming tomorrow's heirlooms. A few nicks and scratches only add to their character.
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Our slates now feature Brass Dowel Pins which are inserted into lined horizontal holes drilled into the edges of the three slate sections where they join to form a level, bump-free playing surface. This makes leveling much easier and faster for the installer and assures a permanent precise slate alignment.
Prior to 1960 the best billiard tables used stainless-steel dowel pins between the slates (just like the dowels on a good dining room table) and after they were wedged together, the edges where the slates joined would stay precisely aligned indefinitely.
That practice stopped because of the manufacturing costs involved.
Nowadays, with wooden frames, the edges of the joined slates will become misaligned in a couple of years, particularly in a climate that has extremes in temperature and humidity. No matter how solid the wood, it must give under those conditions and that allows the slates to shift.
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