Favorite Pool Table Felt Color

That black looks nice, tan looks nice, green is always classic. To each his own. I wonder if someone ever made a plaid multicolored felt for their pool table. Would look absurd and probably add another degree of difficulty if the extra colors play with your vision :p
 
My main employer does a lot of home sale stuff, and we offer the whole range of colors. While I don't have a preferred color, I do like when the felt can play off the colors in a room. There have been a few colors I questioned until I saw how the room was painted, and then it really popped. For novelty I do really like the licensed logo stuff. Takes a little more finesse to install because you need to get the thing centered and the felt stretched just right. We have a customer that has us re-do his table every few years with a Jack Daniels logo felt which looks neat. I've also seen a green one that had printed on it a football field.

I'll be perfectly honest here, I don't even care for pool but it is really neat to see what's available.
 
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.
The people we used for recovering the tables stretched the bed cloth till it was underneath the edge of the slate at the pockets. Then it was contact cemented underneath the bottom of the slate. At no time was glue used on the playing area of the bed. Rails were always stretched and stapled (no glue). Our people always had spare recovered Valley rails in 4 x 8 and 3.5 x 7 table size ready-to-go to speed up the work. On the Dynamo tables we had, the original Dynamo rails got replaced with Valley rails (directly interchangeable). The Dynamo rails were crap and got thrown directly into the garbage can.

We provided the recovering people with the replacement felt from our own stock. This helped keep costs down. We'd order the cloth by the "bolt" for the best prices (shipped by truck only due to size and weight) and usually bought it from either Wico or the Great Amusement Emporium. Sometimes we bought Mali brand cloth and sometimes we bought House brand cloth.
 
I guess it depends on your definition of awful. :)View attachment 502443
This table reminds me of the snooker table where I used to work. It was donated to a veterans hospital back in the 40's and is a beautiful piece of art. It has been restored at least twice from the tags on it and is in dire need of saving again.
No one makes tables like that one anymore, it has had thousands play on its surface in its long lifetime and in a word is "majestic". That table just oozes history....
 
Awesome thread. Not a pool player/owner, but I always thought poker tables looked best without the typical green color. My buddies and I built a table in college, used a dark red color(little lighter than the brick red earlier in the thread) and it looked sweet as hell. I always said purple would look better. Doesn't wear/fade like a pool table, though.
 
For me, its different for Pool Tables vs Poker Tables. Pool is cool green, poker tables absolutely not. But both I like Burgundy felt the best. Just looks classy and different all at same time. I want to mention this though. Its a hard answer because not just opinions, but my own opinion would change pending on the wood color. Thats a huge factor. Some wood tones/finishes just don't go good with my favorite Burgundy color felt. So then I'd pick another. So remember that. The wood finish will "tell you" and "call out" want it wants. You gotta do what the wood wants, not you.
 
After a long summer of fun it's back to the game room so we finally recovered the bed and rails on the table. Classic green was the color of choice though the next time I am going to look for a blue to match the acoustic panels that hang on the walls. Rails were stapled only and 3M Spray 90 was used on the bed cloth. About 8 hours start to finish. Add a bit more time if you've never done it before. Cloth was ordered from Penguin Amusement ($100).

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Absolutely Red.
 

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I have black on mine (natural golden oak wood) and have for around 20 years, and to me it still looks awesome. I have no idea what everyone else thinks of it. 😄

Wade
 
Longtime ago there was a strip joint with 2 Valley pool tables done up with pink cloth per request by owner.
Looked good , but boy did it amplify any chalk used .
 
Longtime ago there was a strip joint with 2 Valley pool tables done up with pink cloth per request by owner.
Looked good , but boy did it amplify any chalk used .
Bright colours show everything. Were they using corresponding coloured chalk, or just blue?
With about 40ish different felt colours to choose from there is about 2/3rds as many chalk colours that can work. Or was it just showing lighter streaks of chalk dust?
 
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