half a snooker table

[jamesg19851]

Hi, are you able to buy half a snooker table, so you can practice around the pink and black spot? I think this might have been asked before but I was just wondering.

[culraven]

Most places do them buy one get one free, some disassembly required

[Byrom]

I'd have half a woman so I could practice on the bottom half and not have to listen to the top bit.

[Redphex]

http://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/boa...-snooker-table

[Tommykiid]

I'd have half a woman so I could practice on the bottom half and not have to listen to the top bit.

Haha made a chuckle of a wendsday

[philip in china]

They used to be available many years ago. I would think if you could source an old table it wouldn't be a huge job to get it altered. I would go for 60%, though. 3 slates and that way you would have the centre pockets as well.

I think we need Geoff to chime in on this one.

[Catch 22]

My friend did this . I don't have pictures but what he did was .....got a full size table , took it apart , done away with the centre slates and two of the side cushions ....cut the wooden a sides (spa's or whatever they are called down to size ... Moved the slate with pocket openings from the baulk end down to the middle along with the baulk cushion ......re- rubbered the cushions .

So basically Imagine a 6 x6 square table with four corner pockets and no middles .

I'm tempted to do this also .... The only difference I would make to it was the markings on the table . He is a billiards player so only has pink and black spot . I would mark the D circle for baulk colours in white and the pink and black spot in black so I could practice different things .

[thommo335]

I'd have half a woman so I could practice on the bottom half and not have to listen to the top bit.

funniest thing I've heard all day!!!

[Cue crafty]

I'd have half a woman so I could practice on the bottom half and not have to listen to the top bit.

Lol, nice idea but mine talks out her arze!

[Geoff Large]

They used to be available many years ago. I would think if you could source an old table it wouldn't be a huge job to get it altered. I would go for 60%, though. 3 slates and that way you would have the centre pockets as well.

I think we need Geoff to chime in on this one.

If you buy a full size table , you can use the two end slates and end cushions as they are , just take the dowel brass pins out of e the slate to join together
take the two end legs and end frame just as they are , cut a section of side frame off the side and with some carpentry work join the end frames together under those two end slates
you end up with a small frame with two end slates on top still with the end cushions on and corner pocket plates .
take two side cushions cut down to fit to table so that the end pocket plates fit in and bolt holes have been plugged and re-drilled to also align up .
you will have to alter one end of each cut down side cushion into a new corner angle .

you will end up with a table 73.5 inch long by approx 58 inch or 6ft by just under 5ft .
no centre pockets but 4 full size corner pockets to practice you're end black spot and red shots and off the D shots

you could be clever and if you are good form a centre slate fall and cut the end cushion into two to make centre pockets , this would be difficult but could be done
don't forget to put adjustable slate bearers under the slates to support it
even this small size would not be able to move it around like a small slate bed 6ft as it would still have its two inch thick slates on x 2 and a sturdy frame work .

I have made a couple over the years for people , but I have lost the photos as there was no digi cameras in those days .

years ago I think Thurston did do a practice table with a centre pocket around 1 foot from one of the corners ?
don't ask me why maybe 100 upper may have the answer I think he has commented on that practice table before on here .

[100-uper]

years ago I think Thurston did do a practice table with a centre pocket around 1 foot from one of the corners ?
don't ask me why maybe 100 upper may have the answer I think he has commented on that practice table before on here .

The MIP table was invented by R. S. Goddard, who was better known as a supplier of slate, and it was made and marketed by Thurston from 1930. Although, because of the dimensions, they seem to have been used principally for top-of-the-table practice strokes at billiards, it was intended as a game in its own right, hence the positioning of the side-pockets. Attached is a description of the game when it was first launched.

[Geoff Large]

Thanks for this Peter

I thought it was Thurston who produced it .

nice to see local Nottingham advert there too

June 1930 is going back a few years ! before my time but

Howarth Nuttall , worked out of a chapel in Lenton , I pass that spot every Saturday night on my way to Nottingham ice arena , his old chapel billiards works is now two blocks of flats named chapel apartments I think .
I do remember the old chapel building that was there in Nuttalls time in my youth though
I still come across Howarth Nuttall billiard badges or name plates on the ends of tables in the East Midlands area as far out as Skegness , you also see some of his HN badge cues in the cue racks too .but mainly in old RAF and Army camps as he was associated with the Naffi .