When considering the purchase of a fine piece of furniture like a pool table, two factors should weigh heavily on your decision: price and quality. Simply put, you're probably looking for the highest quality pool table at the lowest possible price. At Pool Tables USA, delivering on this goal is our mission.

Remember: all of our products are designed, engineered and built to the strictest quality standards in the industry. We take great pride in offering you an heirloom billiard table that will play as true 20 years from now as it does the day we install it in your home.

You can find cheaper pool tables on the Internet but you definitely won't find a better billiard table. Remember cost is only one component of your buying decision. Quality, warranty, craftsmanship, design and customer support are important factors as well. Because we have been selling online since 1999, manufacturing for over 23 years and have 15,000 satisfied online customers we confidently stand behind our products with lifetime warranties on our pool tables and superior customer service.

Pool Tables USA Tables		Cheap Imported Pool Tables
23 years of manufacturing experience 8 years of online retailing experience Pool table frame assembled in America with slate and some components sourced overseas Premium quality Lifetime warranty Mortised joints No metal brackets Professional installation guaranteed		Most companies in business less than 1 year No professional installation Completely unassembled No Warranty Bracketed joints
Unassembled Pool Table Contents:
4 Legs 4 Cabinet Pieces 4 Support Rails 6 Rails 11 Pine 2x4s		4 Triangle corner steel corners 6 End brackets 2 Mid brackets 4 Steel angle irons 22 large washers 22 small washers 132 screws and small bolts 19 Serrated washers 19 large bolts 4 nuts 12 large screws 4 very large washers

Frame Construction

Pool Tables USA's frame construction is unsurpassed. We utilize two center beams to keep the pool table cabinet square and true forever. These cross-laminated beams are continuous end-to-end, interlocking the two cross members. This method of construction prevents warping, twisting, and the collapsibility of the pool table. These beams are mortised (cut into the cabinet wall), glued and screwed through the other side. The additional center beam adds more weight to the billiard table; the heavier the table, the longer it will stay level and "truer" it will play.

Cheap construction utilizes one center beam sectioned (not solid end-to-end) and metal-bracketed together. There is no interlocking strength and support. These beams are metal-bracketed to the walls of the frame (not mortised). These brackets have a tendency to bend, causing the frame to twist. The inferior wood used to construct these tables is not cured to the same levels of tolerance, causing splitting and cracking. These replacement parts are impossible to get.

Replacements Parts

When Pool Tables USA produces a large quantity of a particular model (for example, the Bellino pool table), we also produce replacement parts coded by date for an exact stain match should they be needed. Most Internet companies are unable to offer this level of service.

Slate Foundation

Our trademarked Magna-Board(TM) slate bed is the highest-quality slate foundation available in billiards today. Its smooth one-piece seamless design is milled to 1/5000 of an inch for levelness and straightness. Cheap tables, by contrast, are constructed in one of two ways. Most cheap pool tables have no slate bed at all (saving cost at the expense of quality by eliminating internal structure), instead laying the slate directly on the four-sided frame or cabinet. Alternatively, if a cheap pool table has a slate bed, it is built with sections of wood laid on top of the frame. When there are temperature and moisture changes in the environment, these sections of wood expand and contract. The movement of this wood causes the slate to move or lift over time and become unleveled. This price-cutting move actually costs more in the long run in the form of repeated service.

Leg Construction

We start out by mortising (recessing) the pool table cabinet walls to accept our two-inch solid wood anchors. Blocks are then glued and bonded into place. Our two-inch mitered and tapered solid wood gusset plate is then glued and secured to the anchor blocks, locking the corners into place and preventing the table from racking and shifting. In cheap import tables, the cabinet is not mortised or recessed and the legs are either secured by metal brackets or wood pieces simply screwed into the legs and frame.

Rails and Cushions

Our precision rail tolerances and 100% natural gum cushions deliver professional rebound accuracy. The cushions on our table are precisely aligned with the rail profile. The back of the cushion has a relief cut to prevent abnormal billiard ball acceleration or deflection. The two-piece dissimilar wood construction creates a solid one-piece billiard rail that eliminates splitting or cracking. The interlocking blinds are dadoed and permanently bounded to the pool table rails, completing the custom furniture build. This dramatically increases the pool table's durability and overall appearance. Our rails are constructed to perfect tournament standards as specified by the Billiard Congress of America (BCA). The lifetime warranty on our rails ensures replacement in the very unlikely event that the rubber becomes too hard, too soft or separates from the wood.

Cheap billiard tables, on the other hand, have stabilizers and fillers added to the rubber cushions (100% natural gum cushions are more expensive). Adding stabilizers and fillers to rubber causes a change in the chemical composition. As a result, the rubber becomes either cement-like or too soft and spongy. In either case, there is improper action on the cushion, thus resulting in poor playability. The eventual outcome: an increase in customer service calls to replace bumpers.