Shuffleboard question

It's been a few years since I played, but if I remember the 2 5/16 pucks are for 14' and longer tables and the 2 1/8 pucks are for the shorter tables. I really liked playing on the 22' tables, but I've never seen one of those in someones home. I new a guy who had a 16' but most I've played on were the 9' tables. Have you priced any tables? If not be prepared for sticker shock. I priced a 12' table a few years ago and it was around $2400. If I remember right there's a guy here that went the DIY route and if memory serves it turned out real nice.

Found the thread.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=669761

The quality on those boards, I'm guessing, might be iffy. If you look at the 3" thick boards they are nearly double that for 14'.

"Professional" 22' shuffleboards are $5000-6000. Sucks, I like shuffleboard as well.

I imagine the 14-16' for under 2K are probably crap in comparison, but I have no idea.

I also enjoy the 22' shuffles at Dave and busters. I wonder if we could ask them where they get their boards from and if they'd give us a discount if we bought it through them, lol.

I'd hate to play on a 9' board...

I know with the shuffle bowlers (and big ball bowlers) that the longer the better. It is kinda similar so I would want it to be as long as possible.

I agree, but I recently scored a 12' table off of Craigslist for $500. It's a playcraft (retail around $1100), so it's definitely not top of the line, but for casual basement playing, it's been a blast.

I should note that if the table were another foot longer, it probably would not have fit down the stairs!

I'm going with a mcclure 14' table, hard rock maple wood, 3" thick x 20" wide. With scoring unit is $5200.

Make sure you look for hard rock maple wood from Canada or America. Also ensure it's 20" wide. 3" thick isn't a HUGE difference, but you'er talking about consuemr vs. professional here.

Yes.

You can go with it, with no scoring unit - for ~$4000. I may actually go with that, although the scoring unit is absolutely kick butt looking. You might kick yourself later on...

I would try to find a 20" wide playing field, those only come with larger boards (14ft+). I think this would recreate the shuffleboard experience...

Champion uses canadian "soft rock maple" which is slightly less dense than mcclures tables. I've learned all this in only a few days.

Champion is all over the internet. The customer service of mcclure seems superb though, I've emailed the CEO late at night and he's responded several times immediately. Their warranty is top notch too - lifetime on the polymer coating applied.

That's something to look at too. Some of th lower end venture and champion tables use a lacquer coating, and it shows - it actually dents up!! The polymer coating is like 1/4" thick on the mcclure tables - it looks sweet!

This is over 5K with scoring unit:
http://mccluretables.com/images/prestige.pdf

This one is essentially the same table without scoring unit (different cabinet), for under 4K. Probably the best bang for the buck out there:
http://mccluretables.com/images/tournamentMaple.pdf

3" hard rock maple, 20" playing field, climatic adjusters to keep it level when humidity changes. I've seen the playing field in person and it looks amazing.

If you're looking to save money, email them and look at their COMPETITOR table:
http://mccluretables.com/images/competitor.pdf

It's 1.5" thick and 16" wide, and price wise competes with most of champion/venture's tables (and beats them). I don't know the price offhand, but it's going to be significantly cheaper than the 3" thick boards - but you'll still get the same hard rock maple wood and polymer finish (both important for "professional" gameplay). From what I read, 16" wide boards use smaller pucks (to help recreate the experiene). I assume you may not find a difference because of this fact...

I sound like an advertisement but I guess it's just a brain dump of what I learned the last few days and promoting the same board I'm about to buy.

Here's a FAQ they have (interesting read):
http://mccluretables.com/links.htm

And here's a board comparison with champion, venture, and mcclure:
http://mccluretables.com/links5.htm

Good luck!
ELmO

Thanks for the info.! Now I have one more thing to resist buying.

lol. I can't help it, I gotta go through with it. Home shuffle boarding here Strider and I come.

I darn near purchased a very sweet big ball bowler for my basement. It was 25' long and was totally cool. It was a contact bowler similar to the bowl-a-rama bowlers. Man those things are cool!

I'm still tempted, but it was about $6500.00 and I started going over budget for the theater not to mention that my secondary income source that was funding all this crap died off last month.

Sweet! Have fun.

i will pick up mcclure tournament or mcclure prestige thsi week I guess.

well i bought a 14' Mcclure tournament. Costly but will be great.

Scoerboard attached:

They are.

that's nice. You got some nice stuff there. Post a pic of your gameroom again

Cuz I'm your lady...and you are my man.....

is that michael jackson?

unfortunately I think it was celine dion

I put my shuffleboard on craigslist just to see how much it might get. I paid $4000 new a few months ago + $500 scoreboard. I received one offer of $1000 - LOL!

Guess they don't retain value, or people don't know the difference between shuffleboard specifications...

how's this shuffleboard on sale from sears.com?
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...000P?adCell=A3

maybe I'll just buy elmalloc's. I hear that thing can be had REAL cheap

HAHA. Yeah, go check out some of the tables - you'll notice the coating is crap and their wood is soft (ew, oops) - which results in dents in the playing surface.

Mine is the kind dave and busters uses...

-ELmO