was really hoping this would be a championship for building snooker tables

@Oldiesyoungies

4 жыл бұрын

I think that would be the most English thing that ever existed.

@maproductions9945

4 жыл бұрын

lol😂

@christopherfarrington9270

3 жыл бұрын

yeah someone might have got a maximum 🙄.

@kevon_shabangu

3 жыл бұрын

Same😂😂

@b33p

3 жыл бұрын

That only works if 'world snooker' is at the start.

I’d never have guessed the assembled table is knocking on 1 tonne in weight. Incredible.

Never realised that amount of time and effort went in to the table. Very interesting.

@jacksdjfam

3 жыл бұрын

I actually thought the tables just got delivered 😅

@johnbull1568

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksdjfam Same here. I assumed they got delivered in one piece, and it was just a matter of levelling the legs out.

@jacksdjfam

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnbull1568 Exactly what i thought

@Eat-MyGoal

3 ай бұрын

@@johnbull1568 You thought a 12ft by 6ft slate-bed table got delivered ready built? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

In my technical world, the words I hate to hear are,"You just". I note that these guys never said that. Each miniscule element is measured, considered, and done appropriately, down to paper thickness. There is no repair to anything, it's done correctly, or start over. Good men. I'd appreciate working with them.

@bountyhuntermk2520

4 жыл бұрын

MarkH10 “in my technical world” you pretentious hand pump. I would not tire of issuing you the hair side of my hand.

@MarkH10

4 жыл бұрын

@@bountyhuntermk2520 Scott, my work is just like many people's, including these guys. "You just" put a table together doesn't begin to touch on the technical demands which are foundational to success. Many people accomplish tasks all-day which are seemingly mundane.

Did this for a living for 2 years before the recession. Bloody hard work installing repairing tables. My dads done this all this life he’s 63 now and still does it. B&A Snooker and Pool

@stevefowler3398

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris. I'm interestrd to know how often are club tables serviced, and/or recovered? Cheers.

I was one of the team that moved a used table from a closed club to our club, assembled & adjusted it. Having a suspended timber floor we first had to cast concrete piers into the ground below & get them a level as possible. Re-assembly of the table was not difficult, we made the pocket templates from official drawings but got professional cloth fitters to do the hardest bit. Cushion fitting was easy.Working for the Navy Dept I "borrowed" a very accurate level called a clinometer which was used for the inclining experiment on ships, so our table was as level as any professional one. Happy days, unusual experience.

@helmitonaraujo7580

5 жыл бұрын

Man, i am looking for pocket templates or a hole snooker project but i can't find it....can you help me?... Sorry about my English..it's not my language..

Better wear a hard hat incase a table falls from the ceiling

@93dajjdg

4 жыл бұрын

MrEd Lol

@TheSateef

4 жыл бұрын

health and safety gone mad!

@wierdalien1

4 жыл бұрын

@Digdug30 no it isnt dont spread lies.

@wierdalien1

4 жыл бұрын

@Digdug30 no it isnt.

@wierdalien1

4 жыл бұрын

@Digdug30 sure. So you rather people died from preventable accidents because what? The future is bad?

This is a very important video. Thanks for sharing!

Massive skill.

@TheNathanX100

4 жыл бұрын

kalle kanin Never done a day of work in your life.

@NecumNaTo

4 жыл бұрын

Skill to put together a table? lol.

@dougieroberts7045

3 жыл бұрын

Easy to be honest, basically a lego kit with big pieces, difficult to get it wrong.

@telinoz1975

3 жыл бұрын

Morons who have never setup a pro table need not comment.

@dougieroberts7045

3 жыл бұрын

@@telinoz1975 - 8 year old could do it with a blindfold on.

This was perfect as a vanity desk for me. kzread.infoUgkxMAlHv7-BBWMrPRm5-uEoD6rtdT7SG2Qr Especially the glossy finish. Easy to cleanI was looking for something that wasn't the traditional white and with more of a modern feel. This fit the bill beautifully. I put it together with no problems, by myself in under an hour.Make sure you double check where you place the drawer tracks before screwing down. I had one track that needed to be aligned with different holes than the rest.

Who knew snooker tables were heated ?🤔

@andrewjenery1783

20 күн бұрын

Good question and I wonder how much they're heated?

@jrsc01.

16 күн бұрын

​@@andrewjenery1783they are usually kept at around 45-50°C and it make the balls run quicker and the baize kept dry There is a small temperature display that you can usually see on the edge underside of table if watching on TV.

@andrewjenery1783

16 күн бұрын

@@jrsc01. Would certainly make the balls behave differently.

What a great video. This is an artform. Precise construction and freehand artistry all in one.

“Because the ball’s cylindrical...” I think he means spherical.

@wierdalien1

4 жыл бұрын

No he means cylindrical

@Nickelodeon81

4 ай бұрын

Now that would be a mad game

IKEA send their elite team

@mxprogression

4 жыл бұрын

Realthinx 😭😭

Excellent! Amazing to watch them putting that table together, thanks1

Well that was interesting. I had no idea what was involved

3:58 show that to kids for sex ed.: "It should be firm to go in with some resistance, but not compressing the rubber...And that's fairly tight..." top lad, top explanation.

@Wings_of_foam

6 жыл бұрын

Grow up.kiddo..

o wow I have no idea this is hand build from scratch for the tournaments!!! Learn something new every day :-)

This is actually more interesting than snooker.

That's class. Skilled men.

This was very interesting, I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected :D

I never realize how to build a snooker table, but this is Amazing, handmate, I like this video!!

Nice to see the tables being build after all those years watching Snooker! :)

Thanks for posting! I'm watching Ronnie O'Sulivan vs Shaun Murphy at this time...

@snooker-xtra3033

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3yTmsttk5yTocY.html

i liked the part where he said 27 years

@SkyDigital_01

6 жыл бұрын

snooker maestro why?

@xxxJamiroguyxxx

6 жыл бұрын

because who can believe 1990 was 27 years ago!

@Barberdon2022

6 жыл бұрын

It’s 28 yrs

@SteveMyBell

6 жыл бұрын

Tez it's 19 years m8 I'm watching this in 2019

@SteveMyBell

6 жыл бұрын

29

Love the precision.

that was really craftsman

Precision. Love it!!!

Absolutely fascinating

If its numbered ..having a reason! No criticism..but understanding! Handmade projects! Taking care about detail. Even the floor is different in the starting room to the real room once. Differences to solve afterwards! Respect for those workers.. it's not Ikea..it's like gondola builders: each piece having a reason to be at the right place! Nice!

This is so cool. I wish I had a table like this.

@ZoomStranger

2 жыл бұрын

we had one - a real pleasure to own and play - but games are much longer on a full size table.

I love this table

Who knew snooker balls were cylindrical. I've been playing with spherical ones all my life....I had no idea...

@ZoomStranger

2 жыл бұрын

another killer comment!

@stevefowler3398

2 жыл бұрын

Aha! That explains why my maximum break is 8.

Proper skill this. Getting a surface that large to the tolerances needed is very difficult. Hats off to these chaps - and I have sod all interest in snooker...

Very interesting. I often wondered about it as I like snooker.👍☘️

Cool video, always wondered how much work was involved in moving these from event to event. Heaps more than I thought.

@juchetony1910

6 ай бұрын

and there was me thinking the tables were just folded up and chucked in a Ford Transit.

Very interesting, thanks for the upload.

Really 'interesting Steve Davies' would be proud of this. Thought they brought tables in not build them. Good work

They work really good Not surprised they won the Table assembling Championship. I wonder who plays on the tables that are not that well assembled.

That is so much effort for this thing.

Big respect for these people

How comes they don't wear hard hats when playing?

This is strangely exciting to watch.

nice work there

@jakobn4191

6 жыл бұрын

onthelevelbilliards nice name there

Absolute craftsmen.

Love the way they make it look like a 20 minute job, in my club we have 2 star tables and they take close to 5 hours for everything to be assembled

@jfitz3133

5 жыл бұрын

Didn’t santa get you a shirt for christmas?

@Zidane87

5 жыл бұрын

J Fitz #Bosh #BackOfTheBet #1NilToThee

He's on the level.

What temperature do they set the table at ? And what’s the name on those leveling brackets ?

really nice

Fascinating.

SCS could make "Snooker Tables Manufacturer Simulator 2018" xD

Oh god, people. Get over it with the hardhats and the "cylindrical" thing. Use your head for a second. This is a construction site. they work unter the table too, which has massive wooden beams, sharp metal parts, heavy stone plates, etc. Additionally people may be working on the lighting and tv rigs overhead. And when talking about ball to ball or ball to wall interaction only a small strip around the equatorial plane of the ball actually touches. Thus thinking about the ball as a cylinder makes perfect sense. geez

@underwaterbubbles

5 жыл бұрын

I must get a hard hat before i put my wardrobe flat pack together and to make sure my corners are not cylindrical.

@dennispritchard73

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. A hard hat will save their life should anything fall from above. We must wear one along streets to...just in case.

@BlackStarEOP

5 жыл бұрын

I used to work in a candy factory years back, and those hats were mandatory, boy am I glad I wore those, when cleaning things underneath conveyor belts I have smashed that hat into metal bars etc so often.

@Zidane87

5 жыл бұрын

Dennis Pritchard especially if a pigeon cracks dump on your cranium! Not a good look

@Zidane87

5 жыл бұрын

I had to wear a hard hat once....during Jury Service.....

That tippex pen line is the hardest part of the whole thing lol

Works great.

Thanks for uploading!

Excellent sir

superb sir

I work for a crew company called silverback and we help assemble these tables it's amazing

Crivens! a big job.

Great video. How much is a championship quality like this cost?

Which side of the table is up? I think the upside is where the black ball is situated. Someone?

Fascinating

I cant believe a snooker table weighs around a ton. That is absolutely mindblowing.

Where's the magnetic controls mounted underneath?

No matter what you see, there’s always more

Like every works, hard but so nice.....

this was more exciting that the snooker championship it self

Always thought it was a single piece of slate.I use One of those levels for my centre lathe.

The reason he's wearing the hard hat is because in rehearsals for this video, he dropped the £10 note, and it hit him on the back of the head 😂

I was on holiday once and I remember watching the Crucible team from Rileys who had been flown in at great expense take two whole days to assemble level and cover a top-of-the line brand spanking new championship snooker table. Not only that but I won the draw to be the first to ever to play on it. I was nearly wetting myself with excitement. What a shock I had. It was absolutely awful. Criminally bad in fact - our local club table was far better. The balls were rolling off left right and centre all over the shop, and unless you fired them in at warp speed you couldn't pot a bloody thing. I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in all my life, before or since, and I vowed there and then that I would never ever go on another cruise.

@grahameveale6483

Жыл бұрын

Well I got the joke even if no-one else did!!

@ENZOxDV9

Жыл бұрын

Good one

@Eat-MyGoal

3 ай бұрын

not funny

The slate is in 5 sections and weighs about 150 kg per section, 2 strong guys made it look easier than it was

It is amazing how a video can make anything look sexy these days.

That was quite interesting - I’ve stopped playing snooker years ago highest beak 47 which is a 100 away 😂 ... but interesting to watch thr tables being assembled 👍

@geoffgreenhalgh3553

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good break, mine is 32. 4 reds and 4 blacks.

@johnbull1568

3 жыл бұрын

@@geoffgreenhalgh3553 I played once or twice a week for 20 years, and my highest break was something like 32. Then I moved to a house that was next door to a snooker club, and went 4 times a week with my housemate, and I'd upped that to 53 within about 8-9 months. It's still way off what a decent club player can do, they hit centuries all the time, but it taught me two things, 1) that practice will always make you better at something, and 2) I was never destined to be any good at snooker lol.

@h____hchump8941

2 ай бұрын

When I was about 12 I quite literally fluked a 30 something break, including a length of the table angled red that I wasn't aiming for

I didn't quite get what he was saying. Did he say there's some sort of heaters?

Had no idea that snooker tables in top venues had to be replaced.

Wow.. So much bass

Hard work.

@wSeeDw

7 жыл бұрын

DOOOODGE!

Those slates weigh 200kg and these two blokes liftet them up just like that?

@morrockfly

3 жыл бұрын

No way. I'd believe they are 200kg in total

@argus0ia

3 жыл бұрын

There are other comments about it and the conclusion is that it's right, 200kg and doable, not easy at all and surely not by me, but somehow doable

Must be a good job, wish I had a tenner to chuck about lol

What filler is in that tube they are using?

Roughly 200kilos each slate as two men lift one easily

@arthurvin2937

5 жыл бұрын

I am a very strong guy and I almost fainted on the fifth slate during my home snooker table installation together with Riley fitter from UK. Although we didn't have such luxury as special slate dolly because I'm in US and it's not practical overseas. They are indeed 200kg each if not more depending on Chinese vs. Italian slate. It is the heaviest shit I've ever lifted in my life.

@ColinFlowers

5 жыл бұрын

I think he meant pounds.

@arthurvin2937

5 жыл бұрын

@@ColinFlowers no, it's kilograms.

@ColinFlowers

5 жыл бұрын

@@arthurvin2937 Those two guys in the video are not lifting 200kg. I been working on construction sites for almost 30 yrs and i know how heavy 200kg is.

@arthurvin2937

5 жыл бұрын

@@ColinFlowers It does take special training, and there are different slate thicknesses available - from 160 kilos to 250kg for premium thick slate. When mine slates arrived, stack of 5 on the reinforced pallet, the truck driver couldn't unload it because heavy duty forklift jack malfunctioned right away. I had to drive to the local Home Depot for rental and still it could barely lift it 1cm off the ground. Here's the quote from fcsnooker website: an average snooker table weighs in at 1150 kg and the thick welsh slate bed tables can be up to 1400kg. It's in kilograms.

Why do they heat the table ?

If I have this table I will sleep on it every night. This is how much I love snooker.

@nedseagoon5101

3 жыл бұрын

Do you get anyone potting the difficult brown?

I wanted to see the level on after the felt put on. Now way would it be level with that accurate of a level. Just saying. Great video tho. Very interesting to watch.

Why do they heat the slate?

Me and my brother got one for Christmas and my dad had it up in less than twenty mins tops. And it was in the front room too not in a big hall like that I don’t know what they’re playing at

5:04 And the ball rolls to one side.

This is Strachan Snooker Table?

are the hard hats in case the table falls on their heads?

how much price plzz

Got temperature control. So, how many degree celcius is good temperature for snooker table?

@Wings_of_foam

6 жыл бұрын

57-59

The art of tablecraft :)

@justdont274

5 жыл бұрын

No, the crafting table 😅

Why the construction helmets?

oh i love this precision and this perfection... well, maybe i'm german through and through

what table is that??? they used to use riley table and strachan cloth at shieffield (please correct me if im wrong) what they use now? ive seen some "chinese letters" on the side and strachan but didnt find out what table that is actually! thank you!

@r1training

6 жыл бұрын

bartnapi they use professional star snooker tables with no. 10 starchan cloth

@bartnapi

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@TheVergile

6 жыл бұрын

Beijing Xingwei Sports Goods Co., Ltd.

@fkuspuppiesfkvirus7157

4 жыл бұрын

The thing you said happened ten years ago, Star replaced riley as snooker's only designated tournament table in 2009, Haven't you watched a tournament for years?

What's with the hard hats ??

Very interesting

Why does it need heating? I'm not from a cold zone.

Why they need the heater's under the table again?

Was there a time when tables were transported in one piece into the playing arena?

@spencerwilton5831

3 жыл бұрын

I very much doubt you could move one in one piece. The slate would move under its own weight. Since the very earliest tables they have always been built in situ. Reclamation yards often sell the slate slabs from unwanted old tables.