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Peter Vitalie Arrives To New Home In Time

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 30, 2010

Yesterday my crew and I narrowly escaped the “big storm”. We left Orange, CA around noon heading towards Ladera Ranch, CA. Our client is hosting a big New Year’s Eve party and wanted to fill his basement game room with a pool table. We arrived at the first Ladera home to find an eight foot [...]

Whittier Refelt Job

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 29, 2010

Here’s an old seven foot one piece slate pool table we recovered in Whittier, CA. This pool table was manufactured by Regal Mfg. in the mid 1980′s. This old pool table has been moved several times by two different owners. The seven footer has been residing in this Whittier home for the last 15 years. [...]

Huntington Beach Brunswick

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 28, 2010

This seven foot Brunswick pool table was setup in time for the family’s Christmas party. This pool table has three pieces of  slate. The space in this Huntington Beach, CA home was just large enough to accommodate this seven footer. We centered the pool table within the 12 foot space that the room had to [...]

Pool Table Comes To Life

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 27, 2010

A couple of weeks ago my crew and I were hired to perform a new flooring move on this Murrey and Sons pool table. We disassembled this Pro. eight footer and moved the heavy slate pieces outside to the balcony. The following morning carpet installers will install carpeting in the upstairs game room. The pool [...]

San Clemente Pool Table Swap-out

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 27, 2010

This is an interesting pool table move job we did for for clients in San Clemente, CA. The clients were relocating from Laguna Niguel, CA with an eight foot Olhausen pool table in their upstairs game room. The new home they were moving into had an eight foot American Heritage pool table in the downstairs [...]

Backyard Billiard Table

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 23, 2010

Last week we setup and refelted this eight foot Olhausen Billiards pool table for clients in Yorba Linda, CA. This 25 year old Olhausen pool table still had the original leather pockets which had all fallen apart. We were able to find a new set that fit the rails well. The cushion rubber was original [...]

Make Room For Baby

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 23, 2010

Last week my crew and I were called out to Coto de Caza, CA for a leveraged takeover. I mean, to disassemble this nine foot Golden West Billiards pool table. The homeowners, also soon to be first time Grandparents needed this mammoth slate pool table to be broken down into pieces. You see this former [...]

Big Apple Brunswick

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 22, 2010

This client in Garden Grove, CA has had this nine foot Brunswick Gold Crown for many years and has had it set up in four four states. He is relocating to Westchester, NY. We were hired to disassemble and crate up the slates for a long distance PODS transport.

Dana Point Pool Table Setup

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 22, 2010

This is an eight foot World of Leisure pool table we setup in Dana Point, CA. Our client was hosting his annual Christmas party later that evening. He had told me that he tried setting up the three piece slate pool table himself. But he could only get as far as bolting on the four [...]

Pool Table Psych-Out

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 22, 2010

Here is an in house pool table move we did last week in Santa Ana, CA. This eight foot American Heritage pool table was originally setup in our clients’ upstairs game room. Our scandalous client told her poor husband that she was hiring pool table movers to come and disassemble his prized pool table and [...]

Birth Of A Fusion

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 17, 2010

We finally have our Fusion Dining Table by Aramith on display in our showroom. The Fusion Table we’re showing is the powder coated model with Wenge rails and Banker’s Grey cloth. Now available on all fusiontables is Championship’s Tour Edition worsted billiard cloth. Next week I’ll be delivering a powder coated/wenge fusion table with Aramith’s [...]

Dana Point Setup

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 14, 2010

Here is an eight foot pool table made by Beach Mfg. This Dana Point, CA family recently acquired the pool table and was in need of a setup and recover. The previous felt color was Camel but our clients wanted something  different. It was a toss up between Burgundy and Olive. They chose to recover [...]

Seven Footer Moves To Temecula

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 13, 2010

This is one of the longer distance pool table moves that we handle. Our client, a former Yorba Linda, CA resident was moving to Temecula, CA. His seven foot World of Leisure pool table was moving too. He hired us to disassemble and transport it all the way to his new Inland Empire home. When [...]

Peter Vitalie Found In Coto Home

2 Posted by Pool Table King on December 13, 2010

This is an eight foot pool table by Peter Vitalie. When we showed up to the Coto de Caza, CA home the first time to assemble the pool table in this upstairs bar/billiards room we were unable to start. The pool table pieces were scattered everywhere. The slates were in crates out on the balcony, [...]

From The Rubble, Comes A Beauty

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 13, 2010

About a month ago our clients hired us disassemble their massive Pro. eight foot Beach Mfg. pool table. We moved the pool table pieces to the garage so their contractor could start building a second story loft space above the game room. The clear maple pool table had been previously recovered with Marine Blue billiard [...]

Pod To Pool Table In 2 Hours

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 7, 2010

This is an Artisan pool table we had disassembled and placed in a storage pod a couple of months ago. Yesterday my assistant and I were back at this beautifully remodeled Yorba Linda, CA home to reinstall the pool table. On the first leg of this new flooring move we had taken the rails with [...]

Keeping It In The Family

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 7, 2010

Here is an old seven foot Golden West Billiards pool table that we moved last week. The pool table had been in the same Anaheim, CA home for 27 years. The rubber cushions were shot, the leather pockets were falling apart and the old Copper colored felt, so old, that it’s back in style now. [...]

Pro. 8′ Murrey Goes To Pieces

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 5, 2010

My crew and I were on-site in San Clemente, CA to break down this Pro. eight foot three piece slate pool table. This late 1980′s Murrey and Sons pool table was upstairs in a bonus room that was going to be re-carpeted the next day. It’s nice to see good old American craftsmanship in this [...]

Olhausen Reconfigure; Best Of Both Worlds

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 3, 2010

A few days ago my crew and I drove over to Los Alamitos, CA to reinstall a client’s Olhausen pool table. The pool table was originally in the center of the room. My client was getting new carpeting in his room and also wanted to reconfigure the position of his eight foot pool table so [...]

Brunswick With Dead Cushions

0 Posted by Pool Table King on December 3, 2010

This Brunswick Billiards table located in San Juan Capistrano, CA is installed in this room which I suspect gets a lot of sunlight throughout the day. Now mind you, this eight foot Brunswick table is only 12 years old. This might sound old but the rubber cushions typically last somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-25 [...]

Break Room Billiard Table

1 Posted by Pool Table King on December 3, 2010

Now here is one cool place to work. Imagine taking your lunch break and shooting some eight ball with your favorite co-workers. What a great way to lessen the workplace stress. So we traveled down to San Clemente, CA yesterday to finish up this eight foot Brunswick billiard table. We originally went out last month [...]

Nine Foot AMF Patio Pool Table

1 Posted by Pool Table King on December 1, 2010

This is one of the heaviest pool tables I have ever moved. It’s a 4.5×9 foot AMF pool hall table. I was recently hired to move this monster pool table for a third time. I originally moved it for a former client in San Juan Capistrano, CA. She had it setup in her garage for [...]

11 Year Old Pool Table Finds New Home

1 Posted by Pool Table King on November 29, 2010

Here is a seven foot oak pool table that my mentor, John Campbell and I actually built ourselves. Back in 1998 John and I had a custom pool table shop in Orange, CA. In the two years we were in business we actually only built and sold about a dozen pool tables. Due to difficulties [...]

Fischer Stratford Pool Table Install

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 29, 2010

Here’s another pool table we delivered just in time for Thanksgiving. Our clients from Lake Forest, CA picked out this well made pool table by Fischer. This model is called “The Stratford” by Fischer Pool Tables, it features an accessory drawer that holds all your cuesticks, balls, racks and more. The drawer comes standard on [...]

Newport Beach Bobcat Sighting

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 28, 2010

This is a seven foot Beach Mfg. slate pool table we moved out of storage for our client. A couple months earlier the client started remodeling her beautiful Big Canyon home in Newport Beach, CA. The pool table was correctly disassembled and moved to a nearby storage facility for duration of the remodel. Last week [...]

American Heritage Pool Table Install

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 27, 2010

This eight foot American Heritage pool table started out as a move to storage from Santa Ana, CA to Orange, CA. Our client was moving to a new house but her husband wanted to knock down a wall and expand the room to accommodate his pool table. In the process of disassembling the pool table [...]

How To Install A Slate Pool Table

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 26, 2010

Last week my crew and I were in Yorba Linda, CA to finish up the second leg of this new flooring move. My client was having the carpeting replaced in the upstairs game room. We showed up the morning of the carpet install to disassemble this seven foot “Artisan Billiards” three piece slate pool table. [...]

C.L. Bailey Elayna Pool Table Install

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 26, 2010

Here’s another holiday pool table we delivered last week to our clients in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. The Inland Empire couple came into our Orange County pool table showroom, found the exact style they were looking for and Blammo, a week later their dreams of owning a slate pool table came true! The C.L. Bailey Co.’s [...]

Buena Park AMF Pool Table Refelting

0 Posted by Pool Table King on November 25, 2010

Here is a great example of why you should not drink soda while playing pool! We were hired last week to refelt this eight foot AMF pool table for our client in Buena Park, CA. His kids used water to try and remove the soda stains, but were unsuccessful. #1 rule don’t set can of [...]

1950′s Brunswick Anniversary Setup

1 Posted by Pool Table King on November 25, 2010

Last week we were hired to install this beautiful Brunswick “Anniversary” pool table. This 1950′s nine footer was completely restored by it’s former owner in Arizona. My client purchased it, drove all the way to AZ and brought it back to his home in Glendora, CA. When we were finished setting up this beautifully restored [...]