Diamond Billiard Products

About Diamond

POLISHING A DIAMOND

In 1987, a group of dedicated pool players in Louisville, Kentucky formed a small company based on a simple but unique idea creating a table that would so surpass all others in quality and craftsmanship that it would become the standard for national and international tournament play. Achieving that goal had three strategic elements: (1) using the table in major tournament events, (2) seeking comments and advice from experienced, top professionals about the table's 'playability', and, (3) heeding those comments by adding features and making refinements that improved its performance. For example, various specifications which determine the degree of difficulty or 'tightness' of the pockets, such as the 'cut angle' and pocket size, were continuously changed to find just the 'right' configuration. Other features were refined in the same way.

Since its inception, the DIAMOND PROFESSIONAL has been through over 100 major tournaments and many changes and refinements. Because the DIAMOND was truly designed by players for players and not by manufacturers, it contains design features found in no other table in existence, features which make each DIAMOND the standard of the industry for tournament play, for commercial pool rooms and for the home.

Every facet of the DIAMOND is manufactured to exacting standards. Carefully sculptured from solid hardwoods, each table is pre-assembled at the factory by hand and tested to assure that strict specifications are met. These rigid specifications and the large amount of hand craftsmanship mean that the DIAMOND will never be a mass production unit. It will be produced only at a volume that assures the very highest quality for each unit.

DIAMOND craftsmanship and philosophy encompasses each element of any single game of billiards, including the lighting, the balls, the cloth and even how comfortably the players sit between runs on the table

As befits a DIAMOND, the understated elegance of the wood matched Diamond table lighting fixtures is uniquely simple; a light designed to uniformly illuminate the entire playing surface thus eliminating all shadow and contributing to our DIAMOND luster. The light focuses attention on the entire playing area without drawing attention to itself.

Simonis cloth enhances your enjoyment by allowing you to play your best

Simonis cloth looks, feels and wears differently than any other billiard cloth.

Why Simonis cloth? Simonis is the truest playing cloth. This means that it will provide the best play possible on any table. The balls do not touch the slate or the rubber, they only touch the cloth. Don't settle for less.

Simonis offered the first worsted cloth for billiards. Why worsted cloth? Worsted construction means that there are no short fibers that can release from the cloth to form "pills" or fuzz-balls that have to be removed from the playfield in order to allow the ball to roll straight.

Simonis cloth is incredibly smooth without felt-like fuzziness and Simonis does not wear like nappy woolen cloth which eventually develops tracks or grooves in the cloth, all the while shedding short fibers that constantly need to be removed. With Simonis, ball spin is consistent, and the roll stays straight and true on every shot.

High caliber play, whether in competition or at leisure, demands consistency in performance, and this consistency extends to the balls in play on the DIAMOND table. Belgium made balls of the Aramith design purposely made with larger numerals for easier viewing on a television screen, were also purposely tested and manufactured to assure that every ball is a perfect orb. Exacting specifications and attention to detail also assure that the weight tolerance for every ball is within a 2 gram parameter and this means that each individual Belgium Super Aramith ball plays exactly the same every time as every other Belgium Super Aramith ball, a major consideration for competitive players.

After the 17 Tournaments in 1990, top billiard professionals were already saying that the DIAMOND was almost perfect. After 100+ tournaments and even more exacting refinements their message is clear: "Don't change a thing this table is as close to perfect as you can get.

On April 17, 1993 , the DIAMOND pool table was made the 1st "Official" table of the Professional Billiard Tour Association. This is the first time in history that an "Official" table has been chosen, and we are very proud of this accomplishment.