A Rookie's Guide to Pool Table Maintenance and Repair [Paperback]

Mose Duane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

POOL TABLE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR is the only book available that completely explains all pool table maintenance from simple brushing to replacing the cloth and cushions, including assembling, and leveling.

Pool Table Maintenance and Repair is an accumulation of twenty-five years of empirical and accepted knowledge and experience. It is a comprehensive book on the structure of billiard tables, equipment, maintenance, and specifications, which makes it a complete, one-source maintenance book.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Pool Table Maintenance and Repair is the most comprehensive source of information concerning billiard table maintenance, including cloth, cushion, and slate replacement. --Craig Connelly, Connelly Billiard Manufacturing, Inc

This book is very good and definitely needed in the industry. --Steve Lunsford, Steve Lunsford Corporation, Billiard Slates

Pool Table Maintenance and Repair, one word: Excellent! --Duane Baker, Phoenix Billiards

About the Author

Mose Duane has been in the billiard and pool table business for over twenty-five years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Phoenix Billiards; First edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967808987
• ISBN-13: 978-0967808987
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,323,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in Indianapolis years ago. I grew up on the east side of Columbus, Indiana and attended Columbus North High.

After three years in the US Army's 101 airborne division jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and working on Huey helicopters, I married, had two daughters, and then attended Indiana University's School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana.

After IU, I opened a 24 table poolroom in Columbus where I played on, sold, and serviced a variety of new, used, and antique pool tables.

In 1982, we moved to Arizona where I remain in the pool table service and repair business, and continue to play.

I now have four billiard related books available on amazon.com with a novel (pool and mayhem) on its way.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive guide Pool Table Repair, March 8, 2007

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Philip Kurinsky (Andover, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Rookie's Guide to Pool Table Maintenance and Repair (Paperback)

This book is great and gives the reader a complete overview of how various types of pool tables have been manufactired, and detailed instructions on how to do everything from minor repair/refinishhing, through replacing bumpers and refelting (which was much more complex than I thought that it would be).

For someone handly this could save a lot of money. Having a professional refinishing a pool table is very costly ($500 to $1000). in reality most of these folks sell pool tables and would much rather have you spend the 2K and up to replaced, rather than refish.

I wish someone would read this book and startup a business to maintain and repair tables!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pool Table Book Review, April 16, 2009

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This review is from: A Rookie's Guide to Pool Table Maintenance and Repair (Paperback)

Excellent read very informative. This book is a must have for anyone who wants to work on pool tables.