Beach billiard tables

[Sighlentz]

I'm in the process of purchasing our family's first table. Sons ages 13 and 10. A respected reseller in the Cleveland, Ohio area showed me a table made by Beach Manufacturing. Beach has made high end furniture, i.e. custom bars, tables and chairs for a few decades.

The Table looks to be well made and of solid wood. It's a discontinued floor model and I was offered a special price. Through my research on the net, I was able to determine that Beach tables are on the same level as Connelly, Golden West and Olhausen, just to name a few.

My concern is, I was never able to get in touch with Beach Manufacturing themselves for detailed product info. No web site and disconnected phones. I was just told today, by a previous Beach dealer out of California, that Beach was out of business. Sold the business over a year ago and any product with the Beach name today was probably imported from China.

I was hoping to get some additional feedback and opinions from anyone familiar with Beach tables before I decided to pruchase this table or not.

Any info. from all you pool savvy professionals would by greatly appreciated.

[restorations]

I've installed hundreds of Beach tables. For home use, you won't find a better table.

Check into what Beach called their "Super-frame" construction. Instead of having 1 beam running the length of the table, they have 2.

The main cabinet of all of their tables is solid construction. Not "Knock-down". I.E. the frame stays in one piece.

There are center drillings for in the middle of the slate for 4 additional slate screws.

They did not use any particle board or HDF in their construction. Every part was made of hardwoods.

Hope this helped.
DJ