Favorite Pool Table Felt Color

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I'm in the middle of refurbishing my 1981 Valley Bridseye Maple and it's time to order felt. Mine is the small 6' table so it's fairly easy to maintain and recover. I have always gone classic green but there are so many more color options to consider nowadays. Blue always catches my eye but not a fan of red and recently saw a bright orange table that looked cool. What's your favorite felt color?
 
I played in a league briefly where we had tables done in a butterscotch tan color. The room was all varnished maple and urethaned oak floors. It was pretty sweet. A nice change from the typical green or red. Sounds like that would go real well with your table.
 
Orange would look good. I am a Dolphins fan though. I would go with anything but green. Green is everywhere. Post a pic of what you decide when its done.
 
On our Kitchen dining Pool table we went with a brick red. Me personally I recommend a color close to the color of chalk you use less cleanup and if you can Simonis cloth. stay away from the Walmart balls unless you got kids a good set of aramiths
 

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On our Kitchen dining Pool table we went with a brick red. Me personally I recommend a color close to the color of chalk you use less cleanup and if you can Simonis cloth. stay away from the Walmart balls unless you got kids a good set of aramiths
That's a decent red color. The one I ran into was a different shade. We play the Brunswick Centennial balls for their cool vintage look. A tad bit more expensive then their Aramith brothers but they're classy imo. I have the table at the warehouse while it gets a deep cleaning. Here's a pic of the table before the new cloth. Leaning toward blue.

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That one is a classic, so honestly, the green doesn't look that bad. Maybe a slightly darker green if one exists, but it doesn't hurt to keep the original look, FWIW.
 
I've had mine redone three times in 15 years. I keep choosing black. It just looks awesome.
 
I just caught that. Great place for the table. Take a bite and take your shot.
Yep and it also keeps the wife happy and when we move don't have to worry about two tables being broken down to move. Seats 6 comfortably and 12 at special gatherings.
 
On our Kitchen dining Pool table we went with a brick red. Me personally I recommend a color close to the color of chalk you use less cleanup and if you can Simonis cloth. stay away from the Walmart balls unless you got kids a good set of aramiths
I would actually say to choose a chalk color (Master chalk) that matches whatever cloth you want. Also agree that Simonis cloth is the way to go on an 8 or 9 foot table. It may be too fast on a 7 foot bar table.
 
I have always redone my tables in green it seems to hide the chalk better than any color in my opinion. But at the end of the day it depends on yur taste. I have seen a black table with a black light and UV balls and green neon fuel lines run under the rails that looked really good as well. I have a green table now with the neon fuel lines and it looks pretty sick!
 
I have always redone my tables in green it seems to hide the chalk better than any color in my opinion. But at the end of the day it depends on yur taste. I have seen a black table with a black light and UV balls and green neon fuel lines run under the rails that looked really good as well.

Ok, that's f'ing cool. I had no idea this was a thing. I want a blacklight pool room now, lol.

 
I've got blue on my Dynamo true 7 barbox. Like it so much that the last time I had it recovered I stayed with blue rather than try something else. Might try red next time though.
 
As someone who's worked for an operator with a large route, I've seen all manner of pool cloth colors on pool tables on location. I saw one location that owned their own pool tables and had their tables done in orange cloth. Looks great when the cloth is brand new, but after 6 months it faded badly and looked like crap. So they simply replaced their orange cloth every three months. Their tables made real good money from what I saw so it was probably worth replacing the cloth so frequently.

I've seen blue, red, orange, purple (another color that fades quickly), and yellow in addition to the traditional green color. Roughly 99% of the tables out there use standard green felt cloth.

Nowadays, there are two types of pool table cloth available: traditional felt and synthetic cloth. For durability, the modern synthetic cloth seems to last considerably longer and holds it's colors longer. However, synthetic cloth costs considerably more that traditional felt cloth.

Traditional felt in the standard green color is the most cheapest and also the most stocked pool cloth out there. It is also the easiest to work with when you are re-felting a pool table. Other colors may cost more or may not always be in stock.

When we needed our tables re-felted, we hired professionals to do our tables. In general, on our route, this was around once a year. We would have the professionals do 20 tables at a time and thus we got a discount. All of them used exclusively 3M #77 Contact Cement in both brush-on (for the bed cloth) and spray-on (for the rails) because it was the strongest glue.
 
All of them used exclusively 3M #77 Contact Cement in both brush-on (for the bed cloth) and spray-on (for the rails) because it was the strongest glue.
Glue? I am getting old. When I worked for a billiards company many many years ago, they had a full time team of table professionals. There were french polishers to do the woodwork finishing, general cabinet workers and felt specialists, that is an indication of how well they were done.
All bed and cushion cloths were stretched and stapled, no glue (it would make the machined slate surface uneven and change the lay of the felt).
Tables ranged from pub use (that they operated) all the way up to professional tables for tournaments (played by full time snooker/billiards professionals) and exclusive clubs.
 
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