when last we left you reader, on the subject of pools tables, (almost a month ago), the pool table was set up in the shop and ready to go ... last tuesday, on the urging of our client, will and i took a long road trip to virginia to set it up. it was definitely the longest trip to install one yet, but on the whole, interesting, relaxing and rewarding on a lot of levels. it's amazing what a difference a smart phone with navigation and an ipod with spotify can make .. conjure a song; listen to it. get lost .. find yourself .... amazing ...
back to where we left off ... after laying out the cuts on the cushions with a jig we made a few years back, we trimmed them on the chop saw and trued them up ... pictures of that operation in the previous post.
then comes the tricky part .. click the photos to enlarge them ...
will created the series of photos and notes above and below to document the process some time when we were making a previous (green felted) table, and he still reviews them each time he does the rail felting. it's an important, fussy, tricky, part of the project that makes the table what it is. below are some larger versions of the same photos
the 'pucker' ... see notes in the fine woodworking article about that .. you may need to be a fine woodworking member to view that ... $15. well spent ...
then for us came the set up ... in a very nice room i might add ...
the felt is stretched from the side pockets and centers of the end rails out to each of the corner pockets ...
and then the corners are stretched and stapled to the slate liner pieces ...
bolt on the rails and pockets and rack 'em up ...