A Rookie's Guide to Buying or Selling a Pool Table: 10 Essential Components to Consider Whether New or Used

by Mose Duane

Overview

Buying or Selling a Pool Table analyzes the aspect and makeup of most pool tables including rails, playing surface, frames, cabinets, finish, cushions, pockets, cloth, and accessories. It presents valuable insights and inserts titled Buyer Tips, Seller Tips, and Words of Experience that could potentially save a buyer or seller hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The book explains the difference between cabinets and frames, all-wood, particle board, and hardwood, finishes and laminates, and the difference between three kinds of rails and how they are attached to the table. And which of those are the best, and why.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987031522
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/11/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Mose Duane has written four 'A Rookie's Guide to' billiard books: Pool Table Maintenance and Repair, Buying or Selling a Pool Table, Pool Table Assembly, and Playing Winning Pool. He has also written six novels: JC's Last Chance, Coyote Stands, Something Substantial, The Great Pool Table Heist of Arizona (Obama and the Dixie Chicks), Bigg Dick: Real Justice, and Pussy Willow: A Bigg Dick Novel. Like him on Facebook.com/MoseDuane

Editorial Reviews

Buying or Selling a Pool Table has valuable insights that could potentially save hundreds if not thousands of dollars. If you're considering a purchase or sale, or know someone who is, this book is about the biggest favor you could do for either of you. It's quite remarkable that no one has approached this subject in this kind of depth before, but Mr. Duane has made up for lost time.
Buying or Selling a Pool Table is available at Phoenix Billiards.com, Barnes and Noble.com, and Nook.

Billiard Digest Magazine - George Fels

. . . After reading (Buying or Selling a Pool Table) you'll know what's good, and what's not so good, about any pool table you're looking at. That could make all the difference in the world. From playing surface to leg attachment, you'll know what you're buying before you plunk down your hard earned cash.
Bottom line: If you're going to buy or sell a new or used pool table you'd better have this book.

Pool & Billiard Magazine - Thomas Shaw

Duane knows his way around pool halls, having opened one in his college days. But he's o pool shark—he's a pool mechanic. Duane . . . has assembled and repaired every brand of table in his 30-year career. He's even built a few tables himself to better understand which designs let players show off their finesse and control. And he can tell you why "thousands of tables are sold every year that don't play worth a nickel.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine - Sean O'Neill