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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

This was perfect as a vanity desk for me. kzfaq.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 ?🤔

Massive skill.

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

This is a very important video. Thanks for sharing!

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

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

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

i liked the part where he said 27 years

IKEA send their elite team

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

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

That's class. Skilled men.

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.

This is actually more interesting than snooker.

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

Absolutely fascinating

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

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

that was really craftsman

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

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

Love the precision.

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.

I love this table

Precision. Love it!!!

Very interesting, thanks for the upload.

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!

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

really nice

nice work there

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...

Works great.

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

Thanks for uploading!

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

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

Big respect for these people

Absolute craftsmen.

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.

Fascinating.

This is strangely exciting to watch.

That is so much effort for this thing.

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

Excellent sir

superb sir

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

He's on the level.

Fascinating

SCS could make "Snooker Tables Manufacturer Simulator 2018" xD

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

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

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

Crivens! a big job.

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

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 👍

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

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

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

Wow.. So much bass

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

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

Where's the magnetic controls mounted underneath?

What filler is in that tube they are using?

Very interesting

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

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

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

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

No matter what you see, there’s always more

this was more exciting that the snooker championship it self

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

5:04 And the ball rolls to one side.

Roughly 200kilos each slate as two men lift one easily

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

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

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.

Hard work.

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

Try lifting Welsh slate like that from a 1905 table.

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

Esas mesas de pool o billar y esnoker la harmo solo con mi alludante bueno

The art of tablecraft :)

nice video. but why the heck the helmets?

Fantastic job looks perfect, what I'm surprised about the most is that they don't use a pneumatic staple gun.

Pure craftman ship

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

What am i doing with my days holy lord

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

Would loved to have seen Laurel and Hardy attempt this.

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

Fukkin ell' I just assumed that it gets shipped in one piece in a big crate. No idea its all assembled in situ.

why is he using both standard and metric units?