How I Built My Snooker Table
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Keep in mind that this project was by no means about creating a professional quality table. This particular table is the only one I have ever made, for my own beginner training purposes.
The table bed is made of 35mm MDF (medium density fiberboard).
As long as you build a rock solid, wide (as close to the edge as possible) flat base underneath, the MDF will stay straight, and no problems will occure.
Costs: Somewhere between five and seven hundred Euro.
Time consumed on project: 2-3 weeks
Do I have plans/ blueprint? : No.
You must be congratulated, what an absolute masterpiece! And the enjoyment & pride you must get every time you play. What a project! Well done, and the music to your project, bravo !!
What a great project . I love how you built it so you have your own table then it can be upgraded when time and money allows. Also, quality tools you have there.
Absolutely brilliant! I'd love to have a go at doing this some day. I'd probably make a right pig's ear of it if I tried though! Amazing work well done!
The ball runs true and far in the end: Nice craftsmanship.
Well that was Terrific. Soooo much work. I hope you're playing well on it :)
Thanks!
The Snookerist omg ive seen your comment on loads of pool / snooker vidoes
Rommy Kamzols length?
12 ft
Rommy Kamzols amazing!!!
That’s why we need to treat the table nicely. Such a beautiful work.
Very nice 👍
20 years ago I found 4 Riley legs and 4 side rails in a reclaim yard. Decided to make a snooker table seems i had the legs !! It was a great project, took me few months to do but worth every minute I spent in the garage building it.
I purchased all the materials like pockets, cushion rubber, baize, balls etc from a company Iin Liverpool called Paragon ( I think) snooker supplies. Brilliant service.
It weighed a ton when finished and had to get a company in to move it from the garage into the conservatory 😀
It played beautifully until me and the then Mrs decided to go our own ways.....sick of me playing snooker most probably!
I sold it to guy who had a villa in southern Spain. I drove down with him in the van to his place to help move it and set it up. Ended up staying there for 3 months in the sun 🤣🤣
Anyhow, to anyone who thinks of having a go building one, do it !! Best thing I ever made and was more gutted at losing the table than splitting up with the nagging ex.
Wow, what a story, thanks for sharing :-)
Nice one,I put up my own and refitted the rubbers and cloth believe my it took me a long time to complete. Respect is due too you, I would strongly advise against having a go yourself unless you are very very keen , get a pro fitter in.
Brilliant job. You should be very proud of what you did. Ignore the stupid comments. Well done.
This is just brilliant ,great craftsmanship! I have been looking to buy/ build a table as me and my mates play snooker every Friday evening , and i think we've paid enough from renting the table to buy one ourselves.
Excellent . You should be proud of yourself. It's always rewarding to create something ,*****
Well done my friend ,I've gotten really bored not being able to play snooker in quarantine and with time and effort I could make one but I'm too lazy
it might only be a DIY snooker table but it looks great well done....
Absolutely stunning man, I'm disappointed that the state I live in (VA) it has no snooker table or freaking club to play.
All they have is childish pool tables like what the heck.
I'm missing it so much for the past 8years living in the U.S.
Great job man, love watching it!
Brilliant! I love this guy!
Absolutely fantastic!!!
quite an inspiration!!! Now I shall try my own. thanks for the video!
My congratulations. You are a skilled artisan. Great marvelous work! :)
Oof, amazing work of course but using a wooden bed like that is going to make it warp over time with humidity and very soon you'll have the balls rolling wonky, which can ruin a game of snooker. Buying the slate would have cost a couple of hundred, but I'd have said it's a worthwhile investment. It's also a shame you didn't fit the cloth properly around the cushions, it's a bit of a tricky skill to stretch the cloth tight and smooth around the corners.
Maybe you can upgrade at some point if you ever get to re-clothing it or if it starts warping too badly though.
5:58 the balls already doing curves...
Andrew Baumgartner it’s because of wool (cloth) not mdf.
Wow! Great job! Nice video with beautiful music! Thank you for sharing!
That absolutely awesome, wish I had the space for a snooker table.
Simply remarkable.
Well done!
seriously that is awsm appreciate ur work man
Awesome !!!!!!!!!!
It makes me want to build one, and thank God i have the skills for that :)
Looks very nice and looks so easy to make it took Just over 6 min to make my gave to k ock one out when I got the time spare lol
That was amazing! Wow..Such talent.
Just so nicely done.
You would have had to have a very steady pair of hands and a sharp eye especially for drilling the holes for placing dows in.
The table looks amazing.
I've built a few pool tables in the past it's not easy but a real joy once you put it together and see the final result.
And have a game on it.
Great job, well done.
Good morning, my name is Bruno Silva, I live in Brazil, first congratulations on the work, and I would like to know if you can make available the measurements of all the pieces on this table, in pdf or in some design with the measurements.
I thank the attention.
Well done . I would be a bit apprehensive about using anything other than slate though,in case a ball was dropped or came down onto the bed and dented the MDF .Otherwise ,Great job .
That is not a concern whatsoever, because MDF is hard and dense af.
I have pointed out the only tradeoff about MDF snooker bed before, and it is the fact that it can vibrate slightly and thus slow down the ball on some stronger shots when cue ball kicks. But that problem is eliminatable as well by just using even thicker MDF attached to a very steady platform.
@@RommieKamzols I appreciate that ,however it's just me,I would have to have the slate,as I will not work with MDF anyway. Slate will never move ,warp or react with damp. Any eventuality that's all. Still a great job though mate. Respect to you.
I'm thinking this may be the only way I get to play snooker. Also that concrete and epoxy might be close to slate in playing speed with a good covering. Thanks for a good video on the topic.
Really good job .
Not slate ,but who cares .
Your creation ,your enjoyment .
I work in the wood working industry .
Been doing so for 30 year and back in the early 90's before TH-cam I made a pub size pool table .
The bed though was made of 2 different thickness board.
Mdf.
33 mm & 16 mm which I glued together using contact glue.
It worked out well .
Balls rolled really good too.
But heavy tab for pub size , 6 x 3 foot .
Later sold it.
Then made another one for my friend same thickness play surface but this time 8x4 foot .
Really heavy ,lol.
But enjoyed making it.
This has inspired me to make another one sometime in the near future .
Focusing on another personal project at the moment trying finish it. ( not a pool table )
Anyway great stuff , keep it going mate.
It would be great to see you make another one.
Cheers !
Absolutely awesome dude!
I love this job.
I love it too
Awesome making by you 👌...loved it😊
beautiful, beautiful!!
Wow that’s awesome
I wish i have one snooker table 😊😊
hello, first of all, congratulations on an exceptional job, I wanted to ask you, given that you have a wooden surface, not slate, if you have noticed a great slowdown of the ball or if the cloth helps not to notice this difference, hello and thank you
What is the height of the cushions and play field dimensions and width of the cushions from the wooden frame pls I'm stuck help me.
that was awsum you did a lot of work really hard work pays.
Thank you! I agree with you completely
You should rub the top rails with steel wool for satin Sheen
oh man, this is amazing.
well done great work. I'm here after thinking about making my own (prob 8x4) table. I'm interested to know how it plays... that's the most important thing - does it run fast/slow on mdf, and do the cushions act as they should?
I would say my table was fast enough tp make it enjoyable to play. Cushions acted a bit slower especially on heavy bounces you could see that they absorb the energy, as the ball would bounce off and lose more of its speed than it would on a professional quality table. Still if your goal is not to replicate a top quality table, a well made homemade table will do it's thing. I had a lot of fun on it. Next time would make a double mdf bed to make it much more heavy and stable.
You could try retro fit it with “steel cushion rails” a lot of the newer tables are using this I would use 6mm steel plate bolted to the plates and cushion if you want more response to bounce as it doesn’t soak up energy. The is content on TH-cam. Also add leveling screws to the frames and insert steel disks under the MDF plate use 25mm spade drill and superglue in steel disks. The Rasson pool table has level 21 point system under plates system which is the way to go
You are an artist mate
I love middle-eastern inspirational comments!
Hi, the cloth for the snooker table. What material is was made of? Thank You.
Well done great job .
This amazing you are the great worker you are great brow
Interesting video with nice music.
Bravo!
wow brilliant dude . can give the plans of the snooker table i mine every simple details
Tremendous work
What a great video!!!
What a great job.could you please make plans of it available.
Sorry for my falt language (i am french). But i would say you CONGRATULATIONS !!! This work ! i hope to you a lot of splendids moments on your snooker. I am on the Cul . ( for the "cul" search the translation on the Web) lol. Bye
I bow to your patience doing this, but the price of timber these days this must have cost you at least £400 ! I just bought a fully restored antique 100 year old table for £475. I guess that would have been too easy for you though - Good job though Rommie
Hello Rommie, congratulation for your work, it is really impressive ! I would like to build one with my son who is 14. Is there any chance to get your drawings ?? it would help a lot. Thanks and best regards Laure
Sudden Finnish text appears, it's super effective!
Now that was a great video, if i had the room to do this.
is there any difference in the rolling of balls due to MDF?
Nice work man
Cracking.....well done
Great work!
Amazing , good job
Great job!
Can I know what material is used for the surface ....
Where did you take the references for the table ?
Hiya, good job on your project. I'm just interested how you got the size of the pockets and how to draw them because I can't find any info anywhere. BTW I'm building my own
Amazing work 👍
Excellent job man ☺️☺️👌👌👌
What's The Size Of The Leg's?, The Height And The Width In Inches Please
Ļoti labi super!! Brāli!
Great job but let's be honest. If it ain't slate then in very short period of time the bed will warp
Not a true statement. MDF doesnt just wrap, just like Furniture made of MDF doesn't just wrap.
@@RommieKamzols Ok cool. How does it play?
@@RommieKamzols I know that last reply i made might have seemed sarcastic but it was not lol. It was a genuine question.
Your build is awesome and you have inspired me to build my own table. Can I ask where you purchase and how much was the cloth? Thanks
Thank you. I ordered the cloth from eBay, it is 100% wool from England. Costed around 300 GBP.
Rommie Kamzols Thanks for replying. Just have one more question. Did you undercut your cushion rubbers? I know the tournament’s tables apparently don’t have any undercut.
out of curiosity why did you use pliers for you wooden dowels when you had a hammer next you? not a critisism by any means just way ive not seen in my 3/4 years being a carpenter. hope you are enjoying the table man looks amazing, youve really inspired me with this!
amazing project man! just wanted to know if you put slate on top of the wood for the playing surface or not?
Thank you, Abdul!
No, right now it is just 30mm mdf, but of course I want to upgrade to slate some day. For training purposes it is working alright for me. :)
Oh wow it performs amazing then! Definitely going to attempt making one myself in the summers.
Great job mate. Decent break too ;) lol
that is hilarious I'd hire you guys everyday !!!!
very satisfying video!:)
what is a good alternative to slate bed. carbon fibre sheet , tiles concrete or bricks maybe or epoxy board
Everything that provides a steadfast, plane, smooth surface. I used MDF.
is there any new update to this table? i'd like to see it if you don't mind
great job, I would love to see you work alongside a proper fitter, with the right pocket templates, steal block cushions and slate you could make a serious table to professional standard
So cool! What did you use to seal the joins in the MDF bed?
Great job! looks very nice!
I'd like to ask you what guidence you made the corners/pockets by? Like angels, 3,5 or 3,35 inches, etc. I'm about to make a small practice table at home, and that would be really helpful as i found a couple of different guidences and i'm not 100% sure which to go by,
Thx in advance
bro can u tell me that this can be made at home??
how much time u have taken to complete making a whole table nd what amount it costs you??
Brother, really appreciate it, Can you share the total cost it took you to built this, and can anyone built this at home???
Hi, can you tell me how did you fasten the playing surface with the legs?
Crazy Hacker the mdf boards shouldnt need to be specially fastened to the base, because they are heavy and do not move. However i used some 60mm screws just to make sure they sit perfectly
Nice! Where's the slate though??
@@user-if1de8pt2j which to be fair will be machined within the same tolerances.. the only difference is the longevity
@@trys9262 wood distorts quickly
amazing video i love it
And I, sir, love your comment.
Rommie Kamzols awsome job man
rough around the edges,but well done nonetheless,hoping to build my own in near future
That was re-done afterwards. As well as many other things.
wasn't the table bed possible in 1 piece special order?
That is far too big for anyone to handle, no problem with several pieces. Even real snooker tables have beds made of several pieces
Can someone please do an in depth video on how to cut the rails
Hi Rommie Kamzols, I just came across your building video. Well done !
How is the 35 mm MDF top after two years of playing on ? What is your conclusion up to this day about your table ? Cheers, Filip
Hei Filip, thanks for your question.
The answer is, the mdf is still very solid. As I point out in the description - it is crucial to have a solid support underneath. The bed support has to go as close to the edge of the mdf as possible, otherwise you will cause the mdf to bend when you lean on the cushions etc.
Hi Rommie, Thanks for your kind reply and advise. I intend to make my own as well so all information is welcome. I wish you many hours of enjoyment on your nice table ! Cheers, Filip
Hvor fikk du tak i duk og vantene?
Can't believe how much the ball rolls... I made one smaller with MDF but the ball stops too fast.
How much do u take for per board i wanna buy
Amazing project. Also what is the music please
Hi mate just want to no which wood did you use for the top. Was MDF or HDF. please let me no. tnx
MDF
Rommie Kamzols should have used HDF it's much better and stronger..
yeah, perhaps! Didn't have it available
how did you attached the upper part of table wtih lower part of table?
Hey. Good question. Since MDF isn't as heavy and steadfast as slate, I used 60mm wood screws when I attached the boards to the base. But be very careful when you fasten the screws, do not make them go too deep, because that can damage the board
Rommie
what you used for thhe base marble/slate or somthing else?
Just MDF. Works fine for me as a beginner.
good shot :)